Back at it again with another building contest entry that I put together during an extremely busy time in my life. I couldn't turn this one down though, since I love putting together contemporary buildings. This definitely pushed the limits of my fairly simple building style and my extremely limited interior decoration skills. I still had a lot of fun doing it, though!

A quick overview of each of the six buildings, and some of the thought process that went into them:

1x1: Cafe

Fairly self-explanatory. Just a small cafe.

2x1: Apartment Building

I had originally intended for there to be retail space on the bottom two floors of this building, but then I developed this vision of a futuristic city where they fit as much green space as possible in between all of the buildings. As a result, I turned the bottom of these apartments into a two-story park space. There's not actually a way to get up into the apartments, which isn't particularly realistic, but I decided not to try and shove something in awkwardly.

1x2: Converted Warehouse

This is actually my second attempt at a building here. My first one, while cool-looking, was awkwardly shaped and difficult to build an interior for. I was inspired by a local market that is built into an old paper factory and is getting a shiny new addition "soon". I've always liked contemporary-looking additions to old buildings, and I tried to fit that in here. The green roof was a continuation of the eco-city theme I developed halfway through.

2x2: Converted Parking Garage

I'm definitely happy with how this one turned out, though I don't know if it actually looks like a former parking garage. It definitely did at first, but then I got a little carried away. I decided to put this in the "most common" plot because parking garages are everywhere (at least where I live), and I like to think that in the future, we might put them to better use.

1x3: Community Garden

I think this is the only one that became exactly what I envisioned. It actually grew out of an idea I had for the 2x2 plot that didn't end up working out as I had hoped. I imagined these as being those large metal shipping containers that have been converted into buildings.

2x3: Amphitheater

I don't actually know how this one happened. I had a completely different vision in mind when I started building this, but somewhere along the way, it became this. I'm certainly not complaining though, as I'm quite pleased with how good it looks given its relative simplicity.