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  SpintextTheLawyer
  March 31, 2024, 12:00 am to Public
  
  Superior Street, Duluth, Minnesota.
  Just a nice screenshot I wanted to share.
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My first build, a skyscraper-laboratory I made in 2014.

My first build to be used by other people, late 2015.

This house was the first building where I seriously considered how a house should-
be laid out. It was designed for roleplay, and good enough to be used even years-
onward, 2017.

This building marks a significant change in my tastes and technique. I had-
begun playing with curves much more, and older, art-deco stylings. From 2018.

While it looks pretty rudimentary, this building marks a pretty significant change in
both my style and overall technique. This building was part of a city my friends and
I were building, and we were all trying to crack that iconic "New York style."
I had been mimicking buildings in the Bronx for a while, but it wasn't until this-
attempt that I knew I had it. From late 2019.

2020 was a pretty intense period of growth. Just a couple months after cracking-
that "New York Style," I cracked the British European style. This also would come-
to represent a massive shift in technique, style, and taste.

Just 11 months later, I would design this. At a height in-game I thought would be-
impossible, I recreated 20 Farmer St's original design, and realized the art-deco-
ambitions my 2018 self had set.

The start of me finding my own architectural style. With this building, I made a-
significant advancement in design by considering the building in a more artistic,
meaningful way. The building was designed to be the headquarters of a bank, so I-
represented the importance of banks in the building's façade. Made in the summer-
of 2021.

In the summer of 2021, I began to experiment with some of my older architectural-
fascinations. Bringing back brutalist, post-war, high-tech architecture into my-
focus. I began with these 4 towers, which I could never figure out a base for, but-
still represent an important turning point in my design.

Just a couple months later, in late January I'd begin work on Rainier Blocks.-
Sticking to the Brutalist, High-tech theme of the post above, I designed Rainier-
Blocks with a monumental intimidation in mind. I wanted to create a strong feeling,
and that resulted in the chaotic slab of windows that this building is. This building-
marked an important step in my development as a builder. I decided to express-
how the building would be split up by creating literal splits in the façade. Overall,
this is my most important building.

This building reiterated a lot of the lessons I had learned from making Rainier-
Blocks, but did it in a slightly more refined, and topical way. It was my redesign of-
Penn15, a skyscraper in New York City that was criticized for it's height blocking-
views of the Empire State Building. That was back in the 2010s, since then-
Hudson Yards has done more than enough to block views of the iconic skyscraper,-
and it doesn't really matter how tall this one is now. But I still wanted to try to make-
some sort of commentary through a building, so I designed my tower side-by-side-
to a replica of the Empire State Building. I made their base heights the same, and-
my tower's spire only a couple meters taller than the Empire State Building's.-
Additionally, I added a bowing shape to the building as an acknowledgement to-
Hudson Yards, which it would be facing.

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  TdJboi posted to guest book of SpintextTheLawyer
  May 8, 2021, 7:21 am to Public
  why did someone so talented give my building a diamond-
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