There's been a huge stink in my neighborhood over a 26-story dorm NYU is building. And I realized today that it was possibly going to block the view from our new apartment of the some very pretty buildings in the Union Square area of Manhattan, including the Con Ed Building, which has a very nice clock.
So I used this as an excuse to finally fire up Google SketchUp and make a model to place in Google Earth. I haven't quite figured out how to do precise positioning of the view in Google Earth, and not 100% percent sure my model reflects what will actually get built, but in 15 minutes I got a half-baked answer to my question "Will NYU's megadorm block my view?"
As best I can tell.... maybe...
But it makes me think, this could change the rules of urban planning forever, as people can instantly build models and visualize the impact of proposed development - something that used to take artists or expensive CAD systems. Bye bye experts, the power is now in the people's hands.
Click on the thumbnail for a screenshot of my little experiment.
Not in Manhattan ..., but the Spanish Pavillion at the Venice Architecture Biennale commisioned CodeSyntax, to develop several spanish architectural models for Google Earth with Google SketchUp, and produce a set of videos using Google Earth flights.
See: The Spanish architecture on Google Earth
Also, you can see the 3D models and the video
Posted by: Tagzania | October 25, 2006 at 05:14 PM
Not in Manhattan ..., but the Spanish Pavillion at the Venice Architecture Biennale commisioned Tagzania and its parent company, The Spanish architecture on Google Earth
Also, you can see the 3D models and the video
Posted by: Tagzania | October 25, 2006 at 05:16 PM
one person in a city of 8 million....interesting...
Posted by: edmond | October 27, 2006 at 12:08 AM