The easy building – a skyscraper

Our first building is an easy skyscraper. It looks like this:

Figure 10.2 – The final skyscraper

I hear you. “That’s not a building! It’s a telephone booth!” Well, it’s a very simple building. By itself, this building might not even obviously be a building, but if you used it in a grouping of other simple, stylized buildings (as in Figure 10.1), it would work just fine. The neat lines running around the edges help it seem a little like a building, but it is just a box.

With buildings like houses, the roof is extremely important. But on a skyscraper, like the one we’ll be modeling, there’s nothing special you have to do for the roof, since it’s not angled or overhanging like most houses. It doesn’t even need to be a separate object. This means that skyscrapers are easier to make than houses. We will add some details to the top of this building...