World Trade Center (1971-2001) Model - Page 7

Austin55 · #**121** Posted **Aug 27, 2007, 1:38 AM**

jeeeez!! I just dont know how you do it STR

how long has this taken up to now?!

Peter · #**122** Posted **Aug 27, 2007, 4:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by pe668

Here's a nice NY skyline picture
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Rock_Pano.jpg

Keep on rendering STR

Great pano from GE building!!

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Originally Posted by STR

So your other WTC 3 was temporary and now your making a fully detailed one, or is it same one? Either way, I love it

STR · #**123** Posted **Aug 27, 2007, 10:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Peter

So your other WTC 3 was temporary and now your making a fully detailed one, or is it same one? Either way, I love it

The other 3WTC was the originalone, I'm keeping parts of the facade, but gutting the interior and modifying the heck out of the exterior.

STR · #**124** Posted **Aug 28, 2007, 12:21 AM**

I'll post more renders in this post. Maybe I can finish the hotel tonight.

[img=http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7611/tt73rw0.th.jpg]

Aleks · #**125** Posted **Aug 28, 2007, 12:32 AM**

There was a hotel in the WTC?

Patrick · #**126** Posted **Aug 28, 2007, 12:43 AM**

^You dint know that?

Dac150 · #**127** Posted **Aug 28, 2007, 12:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

There was a hotel in the WTC?

Yes, when the WTC opened, Building 3 was the Vista Hotel. Eventually the Marriot Hotel Chain bought the Vista. The Hotel was then dubbed: The Marriot at the WTC.

That was one hotel I wished I could have stayed in.

STR · #**128** Posted **Aug 28, 2007, 1:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

There was a hotel in the WTC?

3WTC was one of the largest hotels in the city at the time it was built, it was by far the largest downtown, even in 2001. It was 22 stories high with 800 rooms and a nominal occupancy of 1,000 guests. It was fully rented on 9/11 but was fully evacuated by the time of the collapses. Unfortunately the hotel lobby was chosen as the FDNY command center. Tower 2 basically sliced the building in half, while Tower 1's fall wasted everything else but a small stub on the southern part of the building. Today the large ramp leading into the construction area sits on the former site of the Marriott World Trade Center.

Austin55 · #**129** Posted **Aug 28, 2007, 1:40 AM**

I loved the entire complex. your model is amazing STR!!
look at the first pic on this thread,it clearly shows the poor marriot

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=136213

Patrick · #**130** Posted **Aug 28, 2007, 3:56 AM**

The Photographer, Bill Biggart, was killed seconds later as the North Tower Collapsed, Camera Survived though.

Patrick · #**131** Posted **Aug 28, 2007, 4:05 AM**

Some more pics.

A view from the hotel.

Lets Not Forget, the Marriott Hotel was only 20 Years Old, a 4 Diamond Hotel. In 1993 The World Trade Center Bombing destroyed the parking garage under the tower. The Hotel had to be closed from February 1993 to November 1994. Of course, 9/11 did it in.

This was the original Promo Image for the hotel for most Hotel sites, now its really hard to find.

STR · #**132** Posted **Sep 22, 2007, 12:47 AM**

Austin55 · #**133** Posted **Sep 22, 2007, 7:36 PM**

thats nice looking.Very good job.is the hotel finished?

STR · #**134** Posted **Sep 23, 2007, 1:19 AM**

Nope. Not by a long shot.

STR · #**135** Posted **Sep 23, 2007, 2:46 AM**

Some color ans setting tests

Dac150 · #**136** Posted **Sep 23, 2007, 4:12 PM**

What the hell happened? STR your models are excellent, but I cannot look at them without questioning what happened to the real ones.

STR · #**137** Posted **Oct 3, 2007, 5:30 AM**

What happened is exactly what everyone thinks happens. There are side questions, like whether the substandard level of fireproofing, or the structural design itself, had an impact. Don't let your head be filled with ignorant bullshit. The people who peddle that tripe do a disservice to themselves and others.

Patrick · #**138** Posted **Oct 3, 2007, 6:34 AM**

HOLY FREAKIN shiznutters. Okay those last two look incredibly realalistic. The only concern I have is I think the Twins are a little too reflective, I never recalled seeing reflections on them.

STR · #**139** Posted **Oct 3, 2007, 9:54 PM**

The towers were covered in two materials. 99.9% of the facade was anodized aluminum, which is reflective, but the reflections blur rapidly as you move away from it. As a shortcut, I just turn the reflection almost down to zero. Saves loads of time during renders. The machinery bands, and the lobby was covered in stainless steel, polished to a mirror finish. I'm not happy how that renders, but I'll mess with it later.

bugsy · #**140** Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 1:15 AM**

Hey STR, is there any chance that you will ever release the 3ds file ?