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Diplomatic Affairs Building - First Design

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Odd...I thought I uploaded this one to DeviantArt a while back. Guess I only did to Facebook...well, here's what I wrote for it then:

"The "Diplomatic Affairs Building"; a building in a city I designed (I really should upload that map I drew of that planet...).
    This building's supposed to be a sort of Embassy meets meeting hall - the lower floors and basements are largely taken up by a vast hall, while the upper floors all contain embassies for each of the countries across the globe. I haven't added it to the model here, but there should be spires and statues in several places to give it a sort of Gothic look.
    This building dominates the skyline of Oakners; the "big city" of the eastern continent, although I'm thinking of adding a twin to its sister city Erstone; the big city of the western continent, although with both buildings having differences of some sort - perhaps they're built from different stones, or have different statues or gardens surrounding it, or perhaps one's just run down while the other shines as if new. 
    The large blue window that stretches up the building is also a giant water feature - water cascades down the glass and into a pool at the bottom, where it is piped back up to the top. To prevent it making a hell of a splashy mess, the water is contained between two thin panes of glass (GLASSwaterGLASS) which make up the window.
    I'd add a city map, but every time I attempt to map Oakners or Erstone I end up running into scale and/or angle issues, and I give up. Here's hoping it gets finished one day!"


Let's add some more detail to that. I actually came up with this when first deciding to add dragons to my world; I wanted some sort of massive great gothic building made of stone that would be one of the most recognisable buildings of this capital city. One story I wrote down had a weapon backfiring and annihilating the bulk of the city during a war (pretty cliched, really), leaving it a ruin for thirty or so years until people finally returned to the ruins to start over. During this time, the old highway through the city - itself an old trade route - was going to remain in use, and traders would simply navigate around the bits of rubble that peppered the street. Anyway, some characters would set up camp in these ruins, and as the daylight faded they'd see the remnants of the street light network slowly return to life and illuminate their route; the person familiar with their group would remark that the city wasn't dead, it was just sleeping. At a later point they'd end up exploring the ruins, and find that the Diplomatic (or Draconic) Affairs Building had survived the worst of the blast because it had been specially reinforced so it could cope with the weight of draconic visitors. 

I think in another draft there was something ominous within the building...some security machine that was now over-reacting and causing chaos to a vast surrounding area. Eventually it would be destroyed in an intense battle where several battleships would bombard the building from outside (to ensure that the full complement of the security system's defence mechanisms were occupied) while a small group broke into the building from the ground level to disable the machine.

In any case, the design's sort of been replaced by another building...which will be the next deviation I'll upload!

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