SIMCITY BUILDINGS AND THEIR REAL LIFE COUNTERPARTS

[SUPREMO]

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I an avid gamer of Simcity. I've been playing it from the first one to the 4th. But I wanna talk about the skyscrapers in Simcity 3000. Alot of the skyscrapers (American set) in Simcity 3000 resembles real-life skyscrapers in New York and Chicago. One example is the Quigley Insurance Tower which resembles the Woolworth Building in New York.

By the way Rush Hour is out! That's one of the expansion packs coming out for Simcity 4.

[TLOZ Link5]

That mansarded residential tower (The Fritz?) on the bottom right looks a lot like the W Hotel near Union Square.

[LF22]

I've always enjoyed the sim city series. What were your best cities? How many people did they have?

[TLOZ Link5]

I've made several attempts to recreate New York on the Original City Terrain. Only the second try really made something that resembled it.

[DominicanoNYC]

I've tried and I've have a very bad time trying.

[SUPREMO]

Right now, I'm playing Simcity 4 and I'm working on both New York and San Francisco regions. The 4th one of more regional play rather than an individual cities. Now Rush Hour is out I'm planning of constructing elevated subways at my New York cities.

There's alot of cheat codes in Simcity. Just check out the Simcity websites!

[matt3303]

Yeah, Maxis (the company that puts out SimCity) gets most of thier ideas from real-life cities. From Sim City 4: Rush Hour

-"Hurt Enterpirse Headquarters"
a blatent rip off the Commerzbank in Frankfurt
-"Hogan, Wallace and White Insurance"
a slightly different version of the Messiturm
-"Lind Entertainment"
obviously the Woolworth Building w/o some details. It's a much better quality Woolworth than Quigly Insurance. (Almost is a landmark)
-"The Long Building"
very similar to the Plaza Hotel

...and the list goes on and on. I'll try and get some shots.

[TLOZ Link5]

Sounds good. Does anyone know if SimCity 4 is available for Mac?

[Stern]

Dammit.

Supremo. I had forgotten all of my bad-habits and played SC3000 late until the night. I must have played for 10 hours!!!!!!!!

There are many blatant copy-offs.

The Wilkinson Tower- PSFS in Philadelphia

Silver Tower- 2 New York Plaza

Justin Brown Plaza- 1 New York Plaza

Quigley Insurance - An original scheme for Woolworth

I think its called the Marzini Building??? - Colgate-Palmolive in Chicago
Anyways I forget the name. But in SimCity the tall brown building with a spire:
http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/images/landmarks/p/palmolive1a.jpg
(You can see it in the picture SUPREMO posted)

Hurt Plaza - Looks exactly like a midrise in Detroit.
http://www.detroitskyscrapers.net/150Jeff0.jpg

Kate Foundation - 225 West Wacker in Chicago
http://www.noplp.com/archive/image/highres/1000004.jpg

Kong Tower - Original Chrysler proposal. This is a blatant copy-off and Ill look for a picture.

And Corporate Plaza - 500 Fifth Avenue
http://www.rhrosen.com/images/image_location.jpg

[Stern]

And Gray Matter Place- Koin Center in Portland:

http://www.koin.com/koin/images/kointowerpic.jpg

Is that not blatant?

[Stern]

And finally the library is a blatant copy-off of a building in Midtown Atlanta.

[TLOZ Link5]

Really?

I thought it looked like a Byzantine-style church I've seen here in New York.