Park / Convention Center - 2006

  • 29-July 06
Park_1405 Convention Center - 2006

11 Comments

  • RCTNW%s's Photo
    United States RCTNW Offline
    This past winter I decided to give one of my previous structures a face lift for the 2006 Convention at rct2.com.

    This is also one of the maps that will be used for a large project that is in the initial design phases (more to follow soon). Although this map does not contain any working rides, I was very happy with the end result.

    As you would guess, this is another massive structure, only not in height but by the foot print it covers. Even though it is very large, I tried to make the structure different from each angle

    I also brought over some of my monorail support concepts from my Tomorrowland map.

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    James
    posted 18 years ago
  • mantis%s's Photo
    United Kingdom mantis Offline
    I really don't know how you can handle such large buildings. I'm always impressed by them, but not sure i'd look at them for many more times after the first.
    Nice job though.
    posted 18 years ago
  • geewhzz%s's Photo
    United States geewhzz Offline
    It looks ok, sort of repeated and boring. Same colors throughout the entire thing and same foilage. what building needs to be that massive? The whole reason people build skyscrapers is because it's cheaper to build up than vastly across.

    I guess I just don't see where the motivation to build this came from...
    posted 18 years ago
  • chapelz%s's Photo
    United States chapelz Offline
    I guess they don't have any convention centers in Missouri? Anyways I wish it had a more modern design. Maybe like the new one in Orlando? It looks like it would fit in some place near Miami though.

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    Orange County(Orlando) Convention Center.
    posted 18 years ago
  • Highball%s's Photo
    United States Highball Offline
    ^ That convention center is very cool. I remember when they started constructing it and I didn't know what the hell it was. Definately one of my favorite non-theme park structures.
    posted 18 years ago
  • geewhzz%s's Photo
    United States geewhzz Offline
    Nope, none here in Missouri. Don't get me wrong, it's very nice, but that single building is almost as big as a fairly larged sized college campus.
    posted 18 years ago
  • posix%s's Photo
    Germany posix Offline
    wow, look at the photo, then look at his screen. amazing!
    like others have said though, it has a bit of a dead and triste atmosphere to it.
    posted 18 years ago
  • Ge-Ride%s's Photo
    United States Ge-Ride Offline
    Yep. A little heavy on the gray. If you added some more white and black, it would easily be five times better.
    posted 18 years ago
  • JDP%s's Photo
    United States JDP Offline
    ^yeah your all right but i give the guy alot of credit for doing something like this. very good work (massive building)... how long did this take for you to build?
    -JDP
    posted 18 years ago
  • RCTNW%s's Photo
    United States RCTNW Offline
    Mantis - Thanks and your right. But then again, I rarely look at my parks more than once also!

    geewhzz - Like chapelz stated, Convention Centers cover large footprints so that it can provide plent of floor space for the exhibitors.

    chapelz - Thanks and I wish I had seen that pic before I started it. Also, the basic design was created back in 2004 and this was an update to that original structure.

    posix - I would asume that is because nothing is moving on the map

    Ge-Ride - I think the SS is throwing you and it appears that you are basing your comments on the SS vice the park since the only gray is on the roof! Everything else is whte and teal.

    JDP - Thanks and good question. Not sure as part of it was completed 2 years ago. I just expanded the map and continued the basic design.

    Thanks for the feedback.

    James
    posted 18 years ago
  • John%s's Photo
    United States John Offline

    It looks ok, sort of repeated and boring. Same colors throughout the entire thing and same foilage. what building needs to be that massive? The whole reason people build skyscrapers is because it's cheaper to build up than vastly across.

    I guess I just don't see where the motivation to build this came from...


    Skyscrapers are actually MORE expensive to build. Hence why America has been sprawling every direction possible for quite some time now.

    Bartle Hall Convention Center in Kansas City and America's Center in St. Louis are both located in Missouri, by the way.

    The convention center looks nice, if a bit bland.
    posted 18 years ago
  • ACEfanatic02%s's Photo
    United States ACEfanatic02 Offline

    Skyscrapers are actually MORE expensive to build. Hence why America has been sprawling every direction possible for quite some time now.


    Not exactly. It has more to do with the price of land on which the building is built. In a downtown area, land is limited, expensive, and thus very densely developed.

    Oh, and American sprawl is because we did most of our growth after the invention of cars.

    -ACE
    posted 18 years ago