What Planet has the best Architechture?

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2002-11-05 06:14pm

Darth Yoshi wrote:I have to vote for Corsucant. Any planet with buildings over a mile high has good architecture.

The size is more a result of excellent engineering, the architecture will have both ups and downs when you consider both the awe inspiring towers and the seedy alley ways of lower Coruscant.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2002-11-05 07:27pm

For me: I like Coruscant

For aesthtics...Alderaan or Naboo...but then again I can do with greenery

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-11-05 11:29pm

looks like Alderaan is closing the gap fast.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2002-11-06 12:38am

Coruscant is actually one of the most realistic, despite the multi-kilometer tallness. Look at the buildings. They don't all look the same and don't all have the same motif. This is realistic. After all, a city is built over the flow of time with different architects and different designs. This makes a city look sort of like a patchwork. You'd expect a city to look like it has a large variety. Besides, I love big cities. I'm very much an urban person and I love the energy that cities have. Coruscant has this energy that none of the other planets really have besides possibly Bespin.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-11-06 01:12pm

Gil Hamilton wrote:Coruscant is actually one of the most realistic, despite the multi-kilometer tallness. Look at the buildings. They don't all look the same and don't all have the same motif. This is realistic. After all, a city is built over the flow of time with different architects and different designs. This makes a city look sort of like a patchwork. You'd expect a city to look like it has a large variety. Besides, I love big cities. I'm very much an urban person and I love the energy that cities have. Coruscant has this energy that none of the other planets really have besides possibly Bespin.

Unless of course there are zoning laws in place restricting designers to a particular motif in their structures. A good example is Jerusalam, all buildings have to be faced with limestone or at least look like they are. Even the most modern buildings in the area still fit into the looks of the older structures on the city.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2002-11-06 09:06pm

Isolder74 wrote:looks like Alderaan is closing the gap fast.

No doubt due to my constant lobbying

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-11-06 09:35pm

CmdrWilkens wrote:
Isolder74 wrote:looks like Alderaan is closing the gap fast.
No doubt due to my constant lobbying

Perhaps

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-06 09:43pm

No votes for Nar Shadda or Modern Earth, I see. Can't say I'm very surprised.

Admiral Drason · Post by **Admiral Drason** » 2002-11-06 09:47pm

My vote goes for Coruscant. Its just a cool and exciting place.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-11-06 10:55pm

IG-88E wrote:No votes for Nar Shadda or Modern Earth, I see. Can't say I'm very surprised.

I expeted no votes for Star Trek Earth but one is there. At least modern earth looks better than ST Earth

Neko_Oni · Post by **Neko_Oni** » 2002-11-06 11:17pm

City-planets are awesome, and Coruscant is a great example of one. The Jedi Temple I especially love.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2002-11-07 10:14am

City Planets may be nice to look at, but certainly not that great to live in. Just imagine NYC or San Francisco 1000x more crowded and busy and you will start to get the idea of what it is like to live in one giant city. If it were a choice between Alderaan and Coruscant I would definitely prefer Alderaan. Nice open spaces are nice.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-11-08 05:18pm

Commander LeoRo wrote:City Planets may be nice to look at, but certainly not that great to live in. Just imagine NYC or San Francisco 1000x more crowded and busy and you will start to get the idea of what it is like to live in one giant city. If it were a choice between Alderaan and Coruscant I would definitely prefer Alderaan. Nice open spaces are nice.

not to mention the problem of waist manegment with such a city.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2002-11-08 08:10pm

Isolder74 wrote:
Commander LeoRo wrote:City Planets may be nice to look at, but certainly not that great to live in. Just imagine NYC or San Francisco 1000x more crowded and busy and you will start to get the idea of what it is like to live in one giant city. If it were a choice between Alderaan and Coruscant I would definitely prefer Alderaan. Nice open spaces are nice.
not to mention the problem of waist manegment with such a city.

After all with the number of eateries we won't be able to stop consuming pastries.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-11-08 08:21pm

Has anyone gone into the actual structural issues of the architecture? Sure, it looks nice, but is it useful?

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-11-08 11:22pm

CmdrWilkens wrote:
Isolder74 wrote:
Commander LeoRo wrote:City Planets may be nice to look at, but certainly not that great to live in. Just imagine NYC or San Francisco 1000x more crowded and busy and you will start to get the idea of what it is like to live in one giant city. If it were a choice between Alderaan and Coruscant I would definitely prefer Alderaan. Nice open spaces are nice.
not to mention the problem of waist manegment with such a city.
After all with the number of eateries we won't be able to stop consuming pastries.

not to mention the problem of waste manegment with such a city

Obviously your playing on my total lack of spelling skills

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2002-11-09 12:43am

Isolder74 wrote:
CmdrWilkens wrote:
Isolder74 wrote: not to mention the problem of waist manegment with such a city.
After all with the number of eateries we won't be able to stop consuming pastries.
not to mention the problem of waste manegment with such a city

Obviously your playing on my total lack of spelling skills

Not at all, spend a day at ASVS and guess who could be mocked the most for that, hwoever it was a shot I had to take.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-11-09 01:06am

CmdrWilkens wrote:
Isolder74 wrote:
CmdrWilkens wrote: After all with the number of eateries we won't be able to stop consuming pastries.
not to mention the problem of waste manegment with such a city

Obviously your playing on my total lack of spelling skills
Not at all, spend a day at ASVS and guess who could be mocked the most for that, hwoever it was a shot I had to take.

At least you were comical about it and not derogitory

Sam Or I · Post by **Sam Or I** » 2002-11-09 02:29am

Modren Earth if you took out those 2 annoying towers. (Ok a bad joke, but I needed to say it)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2002-11-09 12:44pm

Sam Or I wrote:Modren Earth if you took out those 2 annoying towers. (Ok a bad joke, but I needed to say it)

Hm... I'll agree, that was a really bad joke.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2002-11-09 12:50pm

Commander LeoRo wrote:
Sam Or I wrote:Modren Earth if you took out those 2 annoying towers. (Ok a bad joke, but I needed to say it)
Hm... I'll agree, that was a really bad joke.

Really bad.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-11-09 12:53pm

Knife wrote:
Commander LeoRo wrote:
Sam Or I wrote:Modren Earth if you took out those 2 annoying towers. (Ok a bad joke, but I needed to say it)
Hm... I'll agree, that was a really bad joke.
Really bad.

I have to agree that is the worst joke ever

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2002-11-09 02:27pm

Now now. Don't mock him. The joke was sad, though

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2002-11-09 06:45pm

Isolder74 wrote:
CmdrWilkens wrote: Not at all, spend a day at ASVS and guess who could be mocked the most for that, however it was a shot I had to take.
At least you were comical about it and not derogitory

I try to be...unless its RSA and his grammatical errors (after he spends paragraphs complaining about mine).

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2002-11-10 03:51am

Isolder74 wrote:Unless of course there are zoning laws in place restricting designers to a particular motif in their structures. A good example is Jerusalam, all buildings have to be faced with limestone or at least look like they are. Even the most modern buildings in the area still fit into the looks of the older structures on the city.

Maybe, but you'd think more cosmopolitian cities and worlds wouldn't have such archaic restrictions. Of course, with the case of StarWars, it's entirely possible that many planets lost many cities during the civil war that formed the Empire, so the buildings were thrown up at the same time by a group of designers, so they'd have a similar feel, but on cities that hadn't been destroyed and had been their for centuries, you'd expect some difference in buildings.