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Midcentury Office Building Pack - High Poly Versions

Hey yall, here's the long-awaited hi-def update to the mid-century office building pack released mid last year. The fundamental difference is that all rails along spandrels and sashes on curtain walls are now 3-D. They don't create THAT many more tris because each rail is a singular extrusion, top to bottom/left to right. I did some other touch-ups, from textures to new building features and decor.

Below is the copy/pasted descrip from the former. I'd recommend these assets if your rig can handle them - look much better up close!


Thus spake the legendary pioneer of International-style modernism, Mies van der Rohe. Since his 1920s-era Barcelona exhibition, the mark of the New Style on global architecture was indelible. Clean thoughts and open minds. Bauhaus-esque architecture proliferated across the world in pantone shades of glass, steel, aluminum, glazed panels, concrete, marble, and ever-secy travertine.

Long ago, I saw The Apartment (great movie[www.imdb.com]) at the Alamo Drafthouse. It inspired me to release these early symbols of corporate conformity. Like museum walls, they provide hygienic backdrops to the dramas written and acted out by Mad Men (TM).

You can see these versatile modernist marvels from Hitchcock movies to mediocre urban renewal projects[midcenturymundane.wordpress.com]. You probably have a few in your hometown (or nearest conurbation). Later iterations of the international style are often soulless copycats of these optimistic beacons. I figured it was time they got their dues on the workshop.

The aftermath Second World War saw an explosion[meadhunt.com] in popularity of this honest architectural style in residential, commercial, and notably office design. This latter foray, inspired and epitomized by the United Nations headquarters building in New York City, is the focus of this asset megapack.

They're moderate, triangle-wise. All share the same texture. They fit in any city and look mundanely great up close/at a distance/at night.

Description

Included in this pack are twelve (12!) magnificent examples of mid-century modern office design at it's golden age zenith sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s. You'll find examples of these buildings in city center civic buildings, suburban corporate exclaves, university Ivory Towers, and James Bond villain lairs.

They vary in height from 8-ish stories to 28 stories. All occupy a similar 4x4 block with overspill. You'll probably want to place these by hand or on large, empty blocks like God intended.

The glazed panel spandrels are recolorable on all assets.

Dependencies

IIt's not required, but I'd recommend the associated prop assets, especially for the 8 story building.

Specs

THIS PACK CONTAINS THE HIGHER-POLY VERSIONS OF THE OFFICE ASSETS. The primary difference is the exclusion of extruded metal brackets between all windows/panels. For the (worse-looking, higher performance) assets, see the INFERIOR VERSION.

12x
Filenames: midcentury_office_tower_04 to _08, _11, _13; midcentury_office_15, _16
Level 1 (3? idk) Office or Unique
Tilesize: 4x4
Build Time: 0
Build Cost: 0
Color Variations: 4 ea (ground floor mapped to change colors; unlock more colors with Painter Mod or Procedural Objects)
Main Models Tricount: between 1400 and ~5200 tris
LOD Models Tricount: nothing above 200 tris
Main Models Textures: 1024x1024 (texture sharing enabled with Loading Screen Mod)
LOD Models Textures: 128x128
Alpha mapped, Normal mapped, Specular mapped, Illumination mapped, Color mapped, LOD mapped (texture, illumination, color)

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From the North by Northwest,
Urban Renaissances in decrepit coastal burgs,
To the Route 66 deep in the the desert,
Oil and telecom and banks and insurer HQs spanning the globe!
Endless suburban houses send classic cars down new freeways
To these glitzy development models of white collar ideals!

Influences/Sources:
Pioneer Natural Gas Building (Maxor Building) in Amarillo, TX
Colorado Center building in Boulder, CO
Crown-Zellerbach Building (One Bush Plaza) in San Francisco, CA
Traders National Building (The Grand Condos) in Kansas City, MO
Presidio Tower (Transamerica Building) in Tucson, AZ
First National Bank Building (Canada Pacific Plaza) in Minneapolis, MN
Norton Building in Seattle, WA
Lever House in New York City, NY
3810 Wilshire Office Building (The Mercury Condos) in Los Angeles, CA
34 Peachtree St (One Park Tower) in Atlanta, GA
Milwaukee City Hall in Milwaukee, WI
Pittsburgh State Office Building (River Vue) in Pittsburgh, PA
YMCA Building (Straz Tower) in Milwaukee, WI
Texas Tech College Dorms in Lubbock, TX
Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT
Tulsa County Courthouse in Tulsa, OK
City-County Building in Detroit, MI
Illuminating Building (55 Public Square) in Columbus, OH
Kroger HQ (pre-renovation) in Cincinnati, OH
Wells Fargo Building in Lubbock, TX
Prudential Buildings in Chicago, IL, Boston, MA, Newark, NJ, Houston, TX, and Jacksonville, FL
Bank for Savings Building (Two North Twentieth) in Birmingham, AL
Travelers Insurance Building (Bank of Hope) in Los Angeles, CA
El Paso Natural Gas Company (Blue Flame Building) in El Paso, TX