The wooden Moscow is my favorite so far. It's quite beautiful. Makes me want to go visit.
Here's the new larger model of Downtown Chicago on display at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. I apologize for not having more photos, but I only had a few minutes before my tour started.
I'll take more of it the next time I go on one of their tours. The whole exhibit is very cool, actually.
__________________ "What is the chief characteristic of the tall office building? ... it is lofty. ... It must be tall, every inch of it tall. ... It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line." — Louis H. Sullivan. From "The tall office building artistically considered," Lippincott's Magazine, March 1896.
^^ Columbian Model Makers has spent about 6-8 months designing and creating that model, which in person is pretty amazing. Since they do a lot of scale models for a lot of architecture firms in Chicago, they were able to include all building currently under construction or recently completed, such as the Aqua and Legacy @ Millenium park. even thought the model itself is only of the Chicago "Central Area" portion (it doesn't include anything along the gold coast/lincoln park/lakeview/edgewater or anthing south of the museum campus area) it's impressive because the scale is pretty large, 1/64" = 1'-0" if I remember correctly.
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For those unfamiliar with Chicago, the CAF is at the Railway Exchange Building (Santa Fe Bldg.) on South Michigan Avenue at Jackson Blvd., across from the Art Institute and Grant Park.
I took these yesterday. I apologize that I had to use the flash.
__________________ "What is the chief characteristic of the tall office building? ... it is lofty. ... It must be tall, every inch of it tall. ... It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line." — Louis H. Sullivan. From "The tall office building artistically considered," Lippincott's Magazine, March 1896.
“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
Hannover has a cool display of 4 versions of the city: a 1600 verion of a midevil Hannover, a 1938 model with a beautyful baroque city, a 1945 model of just rubble and a 1995 model of a modern city. Pretty neat, but I didn't have a camera handy...
Sometimes I fantasize about having a warehouse of my own so I can have a huge model like that. There would be leather rolly chairs and an old refrigerator stocked with cold beer. It would be good. And of course, you guys could come over any time.
Sometimes I fantasize about having a warehouse of my own so I can have a huge model like that. There would be leather rolly chairs and an old refrigerator stocked with cold beer. It would be good. And of course, you guys could come over any time.
Me too, Kevin. I'd actually like to have two: one that represents the actual city and one that I can add proposals, or redo zoning how I see fit, etc. Of course, that one would end up being Coruscant.
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“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.