Airport City buildings in real life

[Chloe11111]

Is it? Does this work as a match?! There are a few things I'm not pleased with but I haven't found a closer match

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@Jenn B I do need your thoughts on this one. As I mentioned there are a few things that bother me about this. The first being the lack of horizontal lines in the brick. Also that it's rounded above the clock in AC but peaked in the college building. But I do like that the real building has short dormers in the roof.

 

[Brian D]

Can you help me locate this building on a map?

 

[Jenn B]

Is it? Does this work as a match?! There are a few things I'm not pleased with but I haven't found a closer match

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I agree that it is very close. But I also see many differences in window type and placement. I suggest marking it as "closest", but maybe keep hunting. What building is it? Maybe the architects did something similar elsewhere.

 

[Chloe11111]

I agree that it is very close. But I also see many differences in window type and placement. I suggest marking it as "closest", but maybe keep hunting. What building is it? Maybe the architects did something similar elsewhere.

It's the old tower at the university of central oklahoma

 

[Chloe11111]

Puppet Theater - Taipei National Concert Hall - but not the theater that is beside it

 

[Chloe11111]

I think the Chinese Shop is one of the 4 corner towers of the forbidden city. One (or more) of them has at least one face with the wider roofline on the lower left of the AC version.

 

[Chloe11111]

These old red brick buildings seem to be relatively easy to find. So I'm putting up a higher resolution image of the design center

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I just noticed the statue/sculpture in front of this building. I wonder if that is a clue to where the building is ...

 

[Chloe11111]

Hmmm, I wonder if the carriage workshop is based on the South Eveleigh Locomotive workshop in australia.

Google maps shows the side of that building looks like this

 

[LX Air - Teresa]

Seems close enough
I’d vote for a match

 

[Chloe11111]

I think we're coming to the end now. I will be surprised if we find more matches - well with the exception of the stupid square with courtyard buildings that are driving me nuts

 

[Chloe11111]

As for the locomotive monument, I don't think the train is russian. The cow catcher at the front of russian trains tends to be much smaller. I doubt there is an actual match for it anywhere - I haven't found a single locomotive worldwide with 3 identically sized stacks. They all tend to have a big smoke stack at the front. So I think this is just a concept

 

[Jenn B]

I think we're coming to the end now. I will be surprised if we find more matches - well with the exception of the stupid square with courtyard buildings that are driving me nuts

Closest I can get to the Natural History Museum is the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It even has a T-rex skeleton inside.

 

[Chloe11111]

Closest I can get to the Natural History Museum is the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It even has a T-rex skeleton inside.

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There is also a skelton outside - although not a trex

 

[Jenn B]

@Chloe11111 For your stupid square History Museum, I suggest the Ashmolean Museum in Oxfordshire, England.

It has the Greek peaked front roof and columns. But also the railings on the roof (very hard to find those!), plus if you look from the side, there are no front steps (also very hard to find that!). Might be a better match out there, but those railings on the roof did it for me

 

[Chloe11111]

@Chloe11111 For your stupid square History Museum, I suggest the Ashmolean Museum in Oxfordshire, England.

It has the Greek peaked front roof and columns. But also the railings on the roof (very hard to find those!), plus if you look from the side, there are no front steps (also very hard to find that!). Might be a better match out there, but those railings on the roof did it for me

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@Jenn B I was about to update this but then I found the National Museum of American History. The number of pillars in the portico is wrong but all other details of the center block work

 

[Jenn B]

@Jenn B I was about to update this but then I found the National Museum of American History. The number of pillars in the portico is wrong but all other details of the center block work
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Better match!!

 

[Maverick68]

As for the locomotive monument, I don't think the train is russian. The cow catcher at the front of russian trains tends to be much smaller. I doubt there is an actual match for it anywhere - I haven't found a single locomotive worldwide with 3 identically sized stacks. They all tend to have a big smoke stack at the front. So I think this is just a concept
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Yes, and likely western inspired due to cow catcher. Most steam locomotives have a single stack\chimney, a sand dome and a steam dome plus sometimes a bell (like in the above photo) if didn't have\in conjunction with a steam whistle.

 

[Chloe11111]

I don't really think "museum" when I look at this building (aviation museum). This looks more like a house to me. I wonder if it's a house of a famous aviator

 

[Chloe11111]

Wondering if you think the green metro station is the metro station the Place des Abbesses in Montmartre

 

[Jenn B]

Wondering if you think the green metro station is the metro station the Place des Abbesses in Montmartre

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I think Yes!