This is a thread where you can post all your skyscraper designs you have done in google sketchup, other programs or by hand, and have people comment on them:)

Here is mine

It is a tower between 250m-270m that will form the pinnacle to a residential cluster, which will attach to the right of the main city cluster by a group of 80m-150m buildings. It is primarily residential/hotel with shops, bars and restraunts too. The top will house a three floor penthouse and a spire which should take it to about 290m.

http://www.magix-photos.com/mediapool00/54/48/6F/30/77/16/11/DA/85/15/20/23/52/27/29/83/oma/10/D7E21960EE7E11DA81F28CC552272983.jpg

proper colors

http://www.magix-photos.com/mediapool00/54/48/6F/30/77/16/11/DA/85/15/20/23/52/27/29/83/oma/10/3061AB30EE8111DA9A999C5052272983.jpg

Please add your designs:)

Anyone else got any? Warcry, I know yours is good

nice work newcastle kid :okay: I used to draw skyscrapers when I was younger but they are all on paper and I don't have a scanner :no:

Thanks:) If you get a scanner it would be great to see your designs:)

Here is another one I have just done quickly, alot more curves with this one

It would stand on blackfriars road near Beetham and Wilkinson eyre at about 150m, Providing a nice step down to the cluster. It would be completely residential.

http://www.magix-photos.com/mediapool00/54/48/6F/30/77/16/11/DA/85/15/20/23/52/27/29/83/oma/10/4BC7BF40EEA411DA9F0598AB52272983.jpg

newcastle_kid your first design looks like the burj dubai

I have removed this to stop rival architecs stealing the idea.

there is a reason for this action and you will see the reason in about 20 years maximum.

I really like that design, as sad in the other thread the crown really makes that building

newcastle_kid your first design looks like the burj dubai

Yeah, I know it does look abit like it, but the Burj comes off alot more curvy and round than mine, mine is more simpe, alot more square

newcastle_kid your first design looks like the burj dubai

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Looks like something out of Asia and in a way reminds me of the Taipei 101 tower as well.

i have removed this to stop rival architecs from stealing the idea of this building.

WOW

nice work guys, keep up the good work :cheers:

WOW


thnx m8 i like your new one but its not as good as the first one u did.

and if you liked those designs wate till u see what im working on :)

Ok this ones not really a building, it's a construction of a skyscraper

and it took me 3 hours to do!
where?= parrellel to the isle of dogs
hight?= 270m


http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/9007/constructiponofaskyscrapercust.png

hope you like it :)

that looks very cool that does :yes:

It's great, its amazing what you can do with google sketchup!

It's great, its amazing what you can do with google sketchup!


yes it is :)
im going to lie down my brain hurts and so does my eyesite :lol:

The best tower i have done so far is easily "Slice of Beauty"

Here is another one, backstory inspired by Warcry's "Slice of Beauty"

A tower standing 250m-400m on the site of Arrowhead quay. The current planned project is small and bland, this one would hopefully suit the area more, but at the same time vary from the extreme-boxiness.

It would be office and residential, with a resteraunt and bar at the very top. The top of the tower would also be open to the public.

Obviously nothig like this will ever be built around here if LCA continues to run.

http://www.magix-photos.com/mediapool00/54/48/6F/30/77/16/11/DA/85/15/20/23/52/27/29/83/oma/10/15DD5570EF2B11DA9C5A829052272983.jpg

As you can (hopefully) see from the aerial view, the tower is supposedto be the shape of an arrowhead.

I think the wing one of warcry is exactly the style that the city is looking for. Something a little more conservative in shape but with a smart crown feature. Sets off the skyline nicely. Liking the angulars too Newcastle Kid.

I did a tower once then Ken Shuttleworth called it Vortex ;) Mine was far more slender and less tapered though.

Im working on a stadium at the moment, not quite a skyscraper but the process is the same

3D model of the City of London (zno, barnabu, myself) into google Earth:

http://i4.tinypic.com/111l63n.jpg

http://i4.tinypic.com/111lcw0.jpg

http://i4.tinypic.com/111m1d0.jpg

http://i4.tinypic.com/111maet.jpg

NICE! Great work Jef!

wow, some of those designs are fantastic! i really don't have the stamina for hard-core computer rednering (wouldn't know where to start), but i've done a few on paint for superpolis (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=308) and also by hand...

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3683/copyofe0gq.jpg

and also all my drawings for superpolis...

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6763/28qw.png

and also some sketches i posted on here a while back...

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5996/london20306ue.png

I really like the two on the left of your second pic, kind of looks a bit like skyhouse

They look very good, especially the drawings :yes:

Edit :(

I think something with an asian style crown, almost like slice of beauty, central plaza or the centre in hong kong would look great

well, here's my design (this is a side profile) It's called Re Hows Tower.
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2962/rehowstower1a9ny.jpg http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5250/rehowstower2a4kn.jpg

This is a 60 storey tower topping out at just under 200m, it is situated directly in front of the English Heritage building and is to be entirely social housing for the local comunity.

At night this tower will come alive in a dazzling light and laser show with strobes being projected from the adjoining multi storey carpark.

Planing approval is due shortly.

Are the lasers sent directly into the windows of the English Heritage building? ;)

well, here's my design (this is a side profile) It's called Re Hows Tower.
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2962/rehowstower1a9ny.jpg http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5250/rehowstower2a4kn.jpg

This is a 60 storey tower topping out at just under 200m, it is situated directly in front of the English Heritage building and is to be entirely social housing for the local comunity.

At night this tower will come alive in a dazzling light and laser show with strobes being projected from the adjoining multi storey carpark.

Planing approval is due shortly.
that looks alot like this one
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/brunswick1.jpg

Here's one i made earlier. (took me flippin ages it did)

The back doesn't reveal much

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4918/ss37ks.jpg

However..

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7551/ss23sb.jpg

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5691/ss15hq.jpg

Complete with a 35 floor atrium.
I think i'll call it Bright tower or Bright House. :yes:

Wow :shocked: Make architects eat your heart out :)

Amazing... its official name may be Bright tower, but i rekon it's nickname can be Diamond Tower, eh? Billiant

Here's one i made earlier. (took me flippin ages it did)

The back doesn't reveal much

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4918/ss37ks.jpg

However..

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7551/ss23sb.jpg

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5691/ss15hq.jpg

Complete with a 35 floor atrium.
I think i'll call it Bright tower or Bright House. :yes:

What program did you use to create that?

Are the lasers sent directly into the windows of the English Heritage building? ;)

Yes, they are also powered from the mains supply in the english heritage building.

Yes, they are also powered from the mains supply in the english heritage building.


whay dont u guys like EH?? all they are doing is trying to protect our heritage.
look what happened in the 60's and 70's when they were not there!

yeah but they choose to block The Shard but not a development of a beautiful old building which is being turned into a faceless wall of glass

Exactly, what we ideally want is to replace all and only the 60's/70's stuff, i love alot of the georgian and regency buildings.

yeah but they choose to block The Shard but not a development of a beautiful old building which is being turned into a faceless wall of glass


oh well there just plain stupid in that case :(

ALL MY BUILDINGS ARE LEAGALLY COPYRIGHTED PLEASE REMOVE THEM FROM YOUR QUOTES OR COULD A MODERATOR PLEASE REMOVE ANY PICTURES OF THEM ON THIS WEBSITE.

TO STOP RIVAL ARCHITECS STEALING THE IDEA THAT IS WHY I HAVE TAKEN THIS DRASTIC ACTION.

Wow!
lol, that building so deserves a location on the skyline :yes:

It could even pull it off at minerva's old site since its so tall and dominant :colgate:

Why don't you guys keep your Google Models in one thread?
I see various threads being hijacked then users talking about how they created this and that in Google Earth etc. Not a rant, it's just a suggestion. Just to keep things a little bit more neat because then all people can share thier Google work in one big thread instead of having to scrounge and look.

Consider it please :)

Ontario Tower (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=9003579325572ec0fb519cb9f5fb5b77&ctyp=sm)

contains the lowrise apartments, too

Why don't you guys keep your Google Models in one thread?
I see various threads being hijacked then users talking about how they created this and that in Google Earth etc. Not a rant, it's just a suggestion. Just to keep things a little bit more neat because then all people can share thier Google work in one big thread instead of having to scrounge and look.

Consider it please :)

That was actually the whole point of this thread, but I thought because I wasnt actaully designing my own buildings I was designing buildings that are actually planned or U/C I would put them in the main London thread, But sure I will keep all of them in this thread instead:)

Thanks for the responses to my model :)

What program did you use to create that?

I used 3ds max 8.

Great designs to all. I wish I had the program to make some, but I don't. So I just do crappy ones on Paint :ha:

Just wondering, why was every post of Warcry's deleted?

http://static.flickr.com/59/213547543_ab9d9968e6_o.jpg

Not really a skyscraper, more of a midrise. This is probably one of the best "high-rises" ive done so far, and it's not even finished!

Recently, ive really started to embrace Art Deco and so started modelling the only true Art Deco building in Newport (Casnewydd): The former "Odeon" Cinema:

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/43/newportsv7.jpg

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1491/odeoncinemawc5.jpg

I started it about three days ago.

That ODEON is exaclty the same as Harrogate ODEON.

Very impressive 6underground, your tower looks like the one in cardiff.

Very impressive 6underground, your tower looks like the one in cardiff.
I think that's the whole point! :doh:

how would one render the 'shard' using sketchup? Its difficult because i can't find views from all angles. Does anyone have plans/sections of the thing?