Airport City buildings in real life

[Flyer]

Have we found fuel stations?

 

[Chloe11111]

@Flyer no fuel stations yet

@TeresaLisboa @Jenn B

I need thoughts on this building. Is it a match?

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[Jenn B]

@Flyer no fuel stations yet

@TeresaLisboa @Jenn B

I need thoughts on this building. Is it a match?

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I think so. Especially if you looked at it from this angle, you would think the stairs were only on one side.

 

[Chloe11111]

OMG did I accidentally just find the Mechanical Plant?!?!?! The Brewery Yard. Chippendale Australia!

 

[Chloe11111]

The way I found the mechanical plant legitimately pisses me off. I spent tons of time searching for historic buildings with interesting chimneys. Nothing. Then I do a very generic search for modern industrial architecture and find several buildings all at once ... including this one

 

[Chloe11111]

Please tell me where in the world I can find brick detail like this. I figured since it's the bauble factory, it might be Ukraine But I haven't had much luck.

 

[Chloe11111]

@Jenn B is this it? The House of Wax? Abandoned hotel in Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic (former spa hotel). There is a lot in the czech republic when you search "abandoned"

Interesting history of Jánské Koupele. https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/th...d-spa-town-in-czech-republic-pic-heavy.33992/. This is a common picture from there

 

[LX Air - Teresa]

@Jenn B is this it? The House of Wax? Abandoned hotel in Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic (former spa hotel). There is a lot in the czech republic when you search "abandoned"



Interesting history of Jánské Koupele. https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/threads/jánské-koupele-abandoned-spa-town-in-czech-republic-pic-heavy.33992/. This is a common picture from there

Closer... But I think we should keep that one on a "maybe" rather than a "match"
Main reason: The lack of those wrought iron balconies on the house of wax

 

[Chloe11111]

I'm coming to complain to get the luck of the complainers. I can't find a match for amalthea ice

 

[Chloe11111]

I got a more detailed image of Amalthea Ice

It might be based on a concept design for a residential complex in Moscow by Erick Van Egeraat. Not sure if it was ever built https://www.thecityreview.com/archart.html. Nor am I sure it's a match

 

[Jenn B]

I got a more detailed image of Amalthea Ice

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It might be based on a concept design for a residential complex in Moscow by Erick Van Egeraat. Not sure if it was ever built https://www.thecityreview.com/archart.html. Nor am I sure it's a match

It looks very similar! The architect's website talks about those buildings in the present tense, as well as in the future tense (confusing!). That building should be located to the left of the New Tretjakov Gallery when facing away from the river (they are buildings designed based on the work of famous Russian painters), but Google Maps does not show the buildings, just an empty grass area. Here is the architect's website. There are many other interesting buildings in there with possible matches to AC.

Russian Avant-Garde | Erick van Egeraat

 

[Chloe11111]

It looks very similar! The architect's website talks about those buildings in the present tense, as well as in the future tense (confusing!). That building should be located to the left of the New Tretjakov Gallery when facing away from the river (they are buildings designed based on the work of famous Russian painters), but Google Maps does not show the buildings, just an empty grass area. Here is the architect's website. There are many other interesting buildings in there with possible matches to AC.

Russian Avant-Garde | Erick van Egeraat

I perused them yesterday. He uses that long rectangles on the facade a lot. I noticed one article that they were concept phase in 2003. Never saw anything later that showed they were built

 

[Jenn B]

@Jenn B is this it? The House of Wax? Abandoned hotel in Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic (former spa hotel). There is a lot in the czech republic when you search "abandoned"

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Interesting history of Jánské Koupele. https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/threads/jánské-koupele-abandoned-spa-town-in-czech-republic-pic-heavy.33992/. This is a common picture from there

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Hahahaha! I have seriously googled "abandoned buildings [insert country name]" for every single European country. The I started in on googling abandoned spas for every single European country. I have seriously never gotten these images 🥴 . Time to clear my cache and try again. 😄

 

[Chloe11111]

Hahahaha! I have seriously googled "abandoned buildings [insert country name]" for every single European country. The I started in on googling abandoned spas for every single European country. I have seriously never gotten these images 🥴 . Time to clear my cache and try again. 😄

I was going with former "soviet" countries. I don't really know how I ended up at that building.

 

[Chloe11111]

It looks very similar! The architect's website talks about those buildings in the present tense, as well as in the future tense (confusing!). That building should be located to the left of the New Tretjakov Gallery when facing away from the river (they are buildings designed based on the work of famous Russian painters), but Google Maps does not show the buildings, just an empty grass area. Here is the architect's website. There are many other interesting buildings in there with possible matches to AC.

Russian Avant-Garde | Erick van Egeraat

A chasm between projects and buildings

There has never been a lack of work for foreign architects in Russia. Almost all the buildings in the Moscow Kremlin were built under the supervision...

www.rbth.com

The residential complex called Russian Avant-Garde, designed by Dutch architect Erick Van Egeraat, was to be built next to the Park of the Arts. Five colorful towers were to symbolize five Russian avant-garde artists. Everything might have turned out well if former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov had not opined that the project was good, but its location was wrong. No other site for it has been found.

 

[Jenn B]

I was going with former "soviet" countries. I don't really know how I ended up at that building.

Since I have found very similar buildings from the late 1800's in Vienna and Croatia, I was going with areas covered by the Ottoman Empire. (that is a lot of real estate though 😉). I even roped in LimSky's aunt since she has traveled that area a lot, but to no avail.

 

[Chloe11111]

LOL, I just realized the building on the LEFT is Venus Whirlwind. So now I'm more convinced than ever that Amalthea Ice (from the same event) is based on the middle one

 

[Chloe11111]

Isn't there a building in the game that has a greenhouse at the front of one of the wings? This is the London Normal School

 

[Chloe11111]

I keep trying the college of music and keep coming back to this.

I haven't found anything with a similar shape anywhere.
- All the other clock towers I see are way too detailed (e.g. London Clock tower) or the clock is far from the top of the tower. Almost all are missing for the 4 side brick details around the clock.
- none of them have window placements anywhere similar.

The things that keep me coming back here
- the simplicity of the clock and peak along with the strong corners around the clock
- the three smaller windows in each peak with the wider set of 3 windows below
- the three curved windows below the clock which are brick detail in the real building
- the set of windows one layer down which have the smaller transom windows above the taller windows
- the protruding horizontal brick detail on the real building that match the alternate color on the AC building
- the arched doorway
- the funny shaped dormers on the side
- the roof line of the side wings being higher than the central part of the building.

I'm happy to let go of this if I saw anything remotely similar. @TeresaLisboa can you search Europe? I can't seem to get away from this school.

 

[Chloe11111]

I got terribly excited thinking I had found a match for the design center. I hadn't seen a peak like this anywhere. Turns out it's a prison in Helsinki and beyond this peak. There is nothing similar