Many buildings in Sim City 4 are (or almost) identical at a building who exist in a world.

Like the MesseTurm in Frankfurt:

http://publish.mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko24/images/messeturmfam1.jpg

(3 same in middle)

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko90/images/new%20frankfurt-jan8.jpg

the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt:

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko24/images/dscf0279.jpg

(2 same in middle)

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko90/images/new%20frankfurt-jan4.jpg

the Westend Straße 1 in Frankfurt:

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko24/images/157206.jpg

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko24/images/111116.jpg

(in the middle, between the Empire State Building and Bank of China Tower. )

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko90/images/new%20frankfurt-jan2.jpg

(In bottom on the right.)

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko90/images/new%20frankfurt-jan4.jpg

If you have others building who identical at a building who exist in a world. Post them.:)[IMG]

Nice but please remove the first photo you postet of Messeturm.

It's mine and when you can't even ask for permission or give me credit I don't think you should use it:bleep:

Are there any other highrises than those from Frankfurt, like say Canada Square 1, Swiss RE is probably to graphically demanding, Tower 42, oh I hope eventually LBT is made :)

Originally posted by nick_taylor

Are there any other highrises than those from Frankfurt, like say Canada Square 1, Swiss RE is probably to graphically demanding, Tower 42, oh I hope eventually LBT is made :)

I don't think so, can't remember anything else from the European building set that I've seen in real life. Swiss Re would be awesome though, but as you say, probably too hard to make.

I was hoping that they would make One Canada Square as a landmark that you can use in Simcity 4, especially a much more refined version of the ridiculously fat one in Simcity 3000. :rant:

Originally posted by mlm

Nice but please remove the first photo you postet of Messeturm.

It's mine and when you can't even ask for permission or give me credit I don't think you should use it:bleep:


I don't understand what do you want. I found this picture on skyscrapers.com. Why you say that it your picture[SIZE=4]? And I never say that it mine, I never went at Frankfurt. Explain it to me.

I'm the photographer, I took this photo, it belongs to me (© = This photo can not just be taken and used where ever you want to without permission).

You're not allowed to take photos from skyscrapers.com (or any other website unless they write it's okay). You could atleast have givin me/skyscrapers.com credit for the photo you "borrowed/stole/whatever" but you didn't...that's why I ask you to remove it. If people ask me if they can use my photos it's normally no problem but I would like to decide myself who uses my shots.

Okay, you win.

excuse me.:)

Thank you.

There is some building that resembles a building in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. I do not have a screen shot of it or a photo of the building. :(

Originally posted by mlm

Nice but please remove the first photo you postet of Messeturm.

It's mine and when you can't even ask for permission or give me credit I don't think you should use it:bleep:

Um... no one is taking it anywhere...it is still yours you know..

mlm, can I use 1 of your city picture for put in a reply. if you want, I can mark, below the picture, your name to show that is your city.


if you do not want, you can make this reply by taking the pictures of
this page. (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?threadid=76287&perpage=20&pagenumber=2)

Your picture is the first in the top. The 2 others pictures are below of your picture. Read the two messages for the details of the building.:)

Sure no problem:)

I hope I didn't sound too bitchy the other day, I just really like to be asked if people want to use my photos:|

Thanks:)


This building:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/27.jpg
mlm city


is the same building that this building:

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko90/images/162902.jpg

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko90/images/sydney2.jpg

His name is Chifley Tower in Sydney and his height is 244 meters.:)

Originally posted by Style

There is some building that resembles a building in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. I do not have a screen shot of it or a photo of the building. :(

the Waco building closely resembles Captiol Center, better known as Southtrust, in Columbia.

here's the pics, and the definite "proof."

on the Waco, there's a palm tree. South Carolina is the "Palmetto State;" the palm is on the state's flag, and is the state tree. the state flag is the one below the American.



a drive-by I did of the base of the tower:



see the similarities, especially in the base?



high rise apartments also resembles a lot of buildings from the period up to the late 1920s.

ones that it resembles are a few in Birmingham, Alabama and another in Knoxvillle, TN, although it's a commercial building.

EDIT DUE TO HACK

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ho shit, it's the same thing:colgate:

image by Fabio from another thread here; if you mind it being used here, just say so and I'll host my own pic of it.

http://fabiobeltrao.site.voila.fr//simcity4/11.jpg


I think it's based on Park Row, or at least another NYC Central Park building.

http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/parkrow2.jpg

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Originally posted by Woko

ho shit, it's the same thing:colgate:

ROFL...they've even got the same number of stories (25)

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Originally posted by LSyd

image by Fabio from another thread here; if you mind it being used here, just say so and I'll host my own pic of it.

http://fabiobeltrao.site.voila.fr//simcity4/11.jpg


I think it's based on Park Row, or at least another NYC Central Park building.

http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/parkrow2.jpg

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Your picture is not very good, with this picture, I have difficulty to comparing them. I found others pictures in this page (http://www.emporis.info/en/wm/bu/?id=116156). But it's not very the same.:)

I don't think that Southtrust inspired Waco. The massing isn't the same, the hieght is different, and the atrium thing at the base is quite a bit different. It does look similar, but these late 70's boxes are so common, that it's virtually impossible to know which one they copied without just asking.

To me, Waco Co. looks more like it's modelled off Citicorp Center in NYC, just with a different base and without the sloping top.

Originally posted by LSyd

image by Fabio from another thread here; if you mind it being used here, just say so and I'll host my own pic of it.

I think it's based on Park Row, or at least another NYC Central Park building.

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No problem, I don't mind at all, but I don't think it was base on the building of that photo, the top are totally different. :?

Originally posted by Jasonhouse

I don't think that Southtrust inspired Waco. The massing isn't the same, the hieght is different, and the atrium thing at the base is quite a bit different. It does look similar, but these late 70's boxes are so common, that it's virtually impossible to know which one they copied without just asking.

1. massing is extremely close

2. the number of stories is the same; 25. the height doesn't appeart to be too much different.

3. quite a bit different? as in Waco's is curved, and Southtrust's is angled? oooh, what a big difference.

4. Southtrust is a mid/late 80s box, at least in construction.



To me, Waco Co. looks more like it's modelled off Citicorp Center in NYC, just with a different base and without the sloping top.

and the proportions are nowhere near the same. there's no comparison except for the cladding. just look at the photos, and the building.

Southtrust looks a lot like the Kroger building in Cincinnati, so you could also say Waco's modeled off of Kroger, as is the Citicorp's cladding, because Kroger's from the 1950s. but the cladding is different looking up close between Kroger and Southtrust.

but like I said, there's more similarities between Waco and Southtrust than the others, and the palm tree supports my theory more.

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Dude, you're on crack.

Originally posted by Jasonhouse

Dude, you're on crack.

you are for ignoring the evidence.

:?

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I just found another building from the reallife. This one:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/seeturm1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/seeturm2.jpg

is identical to the Seeturm in Berlin (just with another color). Check out the Seeturm HERE (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=109052):)

In Simcity3000 there were much more buildings from reality!:D

In SimCity 4 there is another building that looks like the Eurotheurm (or something like this) in Frankfurt, but the version in SC4 is much more massy.

mlm, I never would have found that! That (other than the colors) is an exact match! :eek:

Originally posted by Style

mlm, I never would have found that! That (other than the colors) is an exact match! :eek:

I've never thought of it before either until I saw the Seeturm in a book and then it hit me. And yes, it's exactly identical:)

Woolworth Building and Cameron Cameras

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medny/buttowski/wwb1.jpg

http://picserver.org/view_image.php/343MGZ4W76/picserver.jpeg

Cameron Cameras is more like the Singer Building, because the setback/extention part's in a corner and not in the middle.

http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC_Images/507.jpg

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Originally posted by mlm

I just found another building from the reallife. This one:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/seeturm1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/seeturm2.jpg

is identical to the Seeturm in Berlin (just with another color). Check out the Seeturm HERE (http://www.emporis.info/en/wm/bu/?id=109052):)

Woww!!

It's really the same thing.
mlm, congratulation.:)

I had always thought that it looked like a mini world tower in sydney, but then again i had never seen the seetrum.

This one is quite surprising...

Academy Suite, (51f, 175m) Seoul

http://jifopa.cafe24.com/bd/aca.jpg

and these twins (the other side is flat, just like Academy Suite)

http://picserver.org/view_image.php/RXD27L87NCP/picserver.jpeg

Block City
http://republika.pl/simcity4pl/images/plytowce.JPG
I love big blocks :P
http://www.kion99.com/wawa/warszawa602l.jpg

Dang. Those buildings line up just like that other photo. Very cool! :)

Wren Insurance
http://couchspuds.homestead.com/files/SC4-Wren%20Ins.jpg
Shell Building, San Francisco
http://www.mistersf.com/images/shell02.jpg

yes, it's the same think :) .

there's a large $ residential building that looks just like this one I saw last weekend in Glasgow, Scotland

http://www.pbase.com/image/31383849.jpg

large tenement? project feelgood? i don't remember the name, except it's common, and looks just like this building.

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All my downloads from Simtropolis, a lot of real buildings in there:

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/3216/490brookland-4_njpeg.jpg

Here are a few, but thye got kinda messed up, I think.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v350/DuskTrooper/SimCityPicsOne/DT_BOAKS_Fireworks_070404.jpg

my downtown
city name with few similarity to Star Wars
http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/c/o/coth_msk/1/1/1.jpg

All my downloads from Simtropolis, a lot of real buildings in there:

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/3216/490brookland-4_njpeg.jpg

of course...durr!!!

idiots...

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of course...durr!!!

idiots...

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???????????

i'm joshing you a bit, but...

showing BAT versions, or landmarks, of real buildings was not the purpose of this thread...maybe you could never tell that, or see what else had been going on in this thread, before you decided to show the BATmarks in your city, which wasn't the point, as they're obviously reality buildings (unless you spotted variable similarities, like BAT buildings that aren't real buildings but are a lot like real buildings, like the others shown in this thread.

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Re:WACO building is based from A BUILDING IN SHINJUKU I can't rememberwhat's it name but it just close to the Keio plaza hotel

Re:WACO building is based from A BUILDING IN SHINJUKU I can't rememberwhat's it name but it just close to the Keio plaza hotel

pictures of this unnamed building? any official data on it being based on it?

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This building (in middle):

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko90/images/simcity-reality%20%20simcity.jpg

is the same as Nelson Tower in New York City built in 1931:

http://publish.mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko90/images/simcity-reality.jpg

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko90/images/simcity-reality2.jpg

This is my picture, for others pictures, check in this page. (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=113771) :)

image by Fabio from another thread here; if you mind it being used here, just say so and I'll host my own pic of it.

http://fabiobeltrao.site.voila.fr//simcity4/11.jpg


I think it's based on Park Row, or at least another NYC Central Park building.

http://www.lileks.com/postcards/ny/parkrow2.jpg

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I think it doesn't look like the Park Row Building, those spires look more like
the Waldorf Astoria. Compare: http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2165

^ thanks, i knew it looked like one of the old NYC buildings, but couldn't find exactly which one, except for Park Row which was closest.

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@ Woko

I have found another real building on this picture of Woko.

The grey office building in the left is a copy of the Daily News Building in NY.
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/superwoko90/images/new%20frankfurt-jan4.jpg


Check this:
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=115394

DutchSkyscraperFan, go to http://mywebpage.netscape.com , click webpage designer, and create a account for create a webpage after. :)

ill try to make this work, this is the Vintage Tower in san jose california
this one looks like:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v431/Heavyzakura334/Johanesbourgh-Oct.png
http://www.irisandsage.com/irisandsage/GIF/samples/index.2.jpg

:) wait wait wait!! it actually looks like the De Anza hotel, sorry =)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v431/Heavyzakura334/Johanesbourgh-Oct.png
De Anza Hotel in san jose CA
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/santaclara/buildings/ANZ3_hist.jpg

Re:WACO building is based from A BUILDING IN SHINJUKU I can't rememberwhat's it name but it just close to the Keio plaza hotel

i found your BUILDING IN SHINJUKU, and its only similarity to Waco is the cladding; the building has a totally different shape on one side, instead of being straight on both sides.

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My citys never grow like this. Once they get to around 150k, development halts, the city's plagued with the ugly black buildings, and my industry dead. Anyone got any tip's to get city's like you've got?

My citys never grow like this. Once they get to around 150k, development halts, the city's plagued with the ugly black buildings, and my industry dead. Anyone got any tip's to get city's like you've got?

look at other threads. :)

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I'm the photographer, I took this photo, it belongs to me (© = This photo can not just be taken and used where ever you want to without permission).

You're not allowed to take photos from skyscrapers.com (or any other website unless they write it's okay). You could atleast have givin me/skyscrapers.com credit for the photo you "borrowed/stole/whatever" but you didn't...that's why I ask you to remove it. If people ask me if they can use my photos it's normally no problem but I would like to decide myself who uses my shots.

I'm going to make this short -

While I agree with you about the broader concept of copyright, I would just like to comment that I think you are overreacting in a larger sense.

IMO you've taken the time, effort, and skill to produce that picture(s). And I can understand your desire for credit, or if the photo that's in question was used for a commercial project.

But this is a website forum. It's like complaining about eatting cheap food when you're sitting in a McDonald's. Ask for the cred - but don't make it you're bloody life.

~bitter~

I'm going to make this short -

While I agree with you about the broader concept of copyright, I would just like to comment that I think you are overreacting in a larger sense.

IMO you've taken the time, effort, and skill to produce that picture(s). And I can understand your desire for credit, or if the photo that's in question was used for a commercial project.

But this is a website forum. It's like complaining about eatting cheap food when you're sitting in a McDonald's. Ask for the cred - but don't make it you're bloody life.

~bitter~

You can think what you want, but it doesn't change the fact that it was my photo. If people want to use any of my photos (which I really don't mind) the least the can do is ask for permission or give me the credit for it.

Anyway, this case was solved a long time ago and I don't see any reason to waste more time on it.

On with the discussion.....

All my downloads from Simtropolis, a lot of real buildings in there:

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/3216/490brookland-4_njpeg.jpg

hmm how did ya get T42 and PO tower from simtropolis?

A Swiss Re is now avaliable, its..... :eek2: , and ive also got the HSBC HQ