Well it's started. I began with my basic design and laid the floor down. For now I'm using blue bricks to make the difference between the "beams" and where the "windows" will be placed. So far I have a working model with 1/4 of the exterior facade roughly 50% complete up to the 10th floor (minus windows). Then I started to pre-plan the sidewalks around the outside, which means I'll have to redo quite a bit of the lobby and first few floors to accomodate the larger windows.
Then I got sidetracked with the roof top. I got the mechanic penthouse, elevator floor and a few floors down the building completed (with blue windows instead of clear), and 50% of one antenna finished (it will need to be taller and have supporting antenna attached properly)
Pictures?
The base of the building.
My Simplified model (i found the other antenna shortly after taking the picture)
Here I have worked out the windows and floor spacings along with the interior columns I'll need to support the building when it sets back the tubes at the 50th, 66th, and 90th floors.
This is after I slightly revised what I'd done and then began on the rooftop area to give me an idea. The outline of red is the area the building will go to all the way at the top.
I began working on the rooftop here, revised it 2 or 3 times (and yet again its different from this picture now slightly)
The exterior facade on one side.
Yes, the interior columns will be all in black when I'm finished. I just wanted to get them in place as a mockup so I could see how I was going to do it specifically. Everything seemed to turn out damn near perfect.
Exterior facade 50% complete up to 10 stories, and the outside sidewalk with stepdowns being created.
And yes, Tabitha was helping me. She's my parents' new cat.
I've worked it out to be around 5 foot tall, it will be pretty goddamn sweet. Only problem is I'm going to have to order 3,150 2x1 clear bricks for the windows, which will end up getting expensive so this project will take at the very least 6 months of time.