Buildings uploaded for July 25, 2007

Here are the buildings uploaded to the Cities In Development section of Google’s 3D warehouse since my last post.

It looks like another city has been added to the Cities in Development section. Let’s have a big welcome for Taipei, Taiwan! Here are a few select buildings from this city.

Taipei Public Library


Model of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall


Taipei Main Station


Zhongshan Hall


Kabul, Afghanistan

Bank Offices, Kabul


Offices Pashtunistan Sq. 4


Kabul City Ensemble

Description
Collection of Buildings in central Kabul, including the Ministry of Communications(MoC), the Spinzar Hotel, as well as the headuarters of a bank. By the way, the tower (65m) of the MoC complex is one of the highrise buildings of Kabul.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul

Offices Pashtunistan Sq. 1

Description
This model shows one of the Office Buildings near Pashtunistan Square.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul

Plaza Hotel Roadstrip, Kabul

Description
Buildings along a roadstrip of central Kabul, located at the crossing of the Asmayi- and Salang Wat Road, near the ministry of communications. The model includes the plaza-hotel and a few shops and office buildings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul

Serena Hotel, Kabul

Description
5-Star hotel in central Kabul belonging to a Pakistani hotel-corporation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul

Zumaia, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain

Calle Izustarri 1 y Calle Izaga 1 en Zumaia


Katowice, Poland

Katowice - ING Bank na rynku

Description
Katowice - ING Bank na rynku This is model of ING Bank from Katowice

Katowice - "Katowice" Hotel


Katowice – Altus

Description
Altus is a skyscraper in Katowice, Silesia, Poland. It is the highest building in Poland outside Warsaw. The construction started in 2001 and finished in 2003. The building is 125 m high and rises 30 floors above ground. Total floor area is 68,815 m², and volume is 270,430 m³. The building surrounds a four-story atrium. One wing of the building has 18 stories and the other has 29. Altus is an intelligent building, controlled centrally through a Building Management System. There are 18 elevators in the building. The main tenants are a four-star hotel, a casino, a health club, and banks: PKO Bank Polski, Citibank, and Kredyt Bank. There is also a three-level underground parking that can fit 560 cars. Over 1,500 people work in the building.
http://www.altus.katowice.pl/eng/index.html

Barcelona, Spain

Edificio Allianz, Barcelona

Description
Building where the agency of assurances Allianz has their offices in Barcelona. It has 80 m height (263 f) and 20 floors.

Richmond, Virginia

Grace St Building


Washington Building

Description
The Washington Building is one of the oldest state high-rise buildings that towers along Bank Street. The stands at the southeast corner of Capitol Square, Richmond, VA Completed in 1922 By Carneal and Johnston, now Ballou Justice Upton Architects the Washington Building houses Argriculture and Human Services, Transportation, Council on Human RIghts, E-Government state departments. Renovated in 2006
http://www.dgs.virginia.gov/CapSquare/CSWashingtonBldg.htm

Los Angeles, California

N Hope Street and W 1st Street Building in Los Angeles


Sepulveda Center

Description
The Sepulveda Center rises 12 floors and was completed in 1982.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel


It looks like we have another city added to Cities in Development. Google has added Portland, Oregon!

Portland, Oregon

Autodesk Office – Portland


Crown Point (Vista House)