Volkshalle (Wonder)

[asioasioasio]

Ok - wonder requested by ParkCungHee and needed for WW2 Mod.

by Wikipedia:

The Volkshalle (People's Hall), also called Große Halle (Great dome) or Ruhmeshalle (Hall of Fame), was a huge monumental building planned, but never built, by Adolf Hitler and his architect Albert Speer. It was major part of Welthauptstadt ("World Capital") Germania project.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkshalle

Model: 404 Pollies (It's again rather big number, but i wanted dome wich would look like dome)
Texture: 256x64
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[Dom Pedro II]

Wow... creepy... I was just thinking of trying to make this recently.

Nicely done!


EDIT: How about the Olympic Stadium which actually was built?

 

[Crighton]

Wow.

Me like.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Thanks a ton! It looks wonderful.

 

[hrochland]

You are High-speed Asio. Good work

 

[Jeckel]

This would make a great UB for a Third Reich civ, maybe replace the Forbidden Palace or even the Palace itself.

 

[Dom Pedro II]

I'm planning on adding it as a later era WW that can only be built under Police State but will be constructable for all civilizations.

 

[asioasioasio]

Thx for your opinions

About Olimpic Stadium - I'll try it in free time, but it won't be probably soon cause i'm modding a lot - and have less time for modelling (besides i usealy model for needs of mod). And wich version do you want - modern or this from Summer Olympic Games in 1936? - I was thinking about making 1936 version for the mod.

Good idea with this Police State limit. In ww2 mod we plan to use it as Fascisc "Shrine" - cause ideologies/alliances are replacing religions. But probably we'll not use prophets - to build it it would need more sacrifce than sacrificing one great person.

 

[Dom Pedro II]

Yes, I think the 1936 version of the Olympic Stadium would be best.

IIRC, the bricks being used for the construction of this building or some of the other large projects for Germania (the new Berlin) were being made in one of the first concentration camps set up on the outskirts of the city...

I believe they used a triangular shape to the camp to allow one machinegun nest to cover the entire camp... Unfortunately, I'm terrible with names and don't remember what it was called.

Anyway, that's the sort of "sacrifice" that'd make sense for this mod... the use of huge quantities of slave labor for its construction. Both in the production of and assembly of the materials.

 

[Rabbit, White]

This looks great. Nicely done asio

 

[charly1977]

Yes, I think the 1936 version of the Olympic Stadium would be best.

IIRC, the bricks being used for the construction of this building or some of the other large projects for Germania (the new Berlin) were being made in one of the first concentration camps set up on the outskirts of the city...

I believe they used a triangular shape to the camp to allow one machinegun nest to cover the entire camp... Unfortunately, I'm terrible with names and don't remember what it was called.

more infos about the construction of the olympic stadium in berlin:
http://www.olympiastadion-berlin.de/index.php?id=163

Quote and Translation:
1935 (1)
Die Bauausführung hinkte dem Terminplan von Anfang an hinterher.
The construction limped afterwards the schedule since the beginning.

Der Staatssekretär Pfundtner sorgte bei den beteiligten Bauunternehmen für Druck, indem er drohte, Firmen, die dem Mehrschichtbetrieb nicht gewachsen sind oder aus sonstigen Gründen Widerstand entgegensetzen, sofort durch andere zu ersetzen.

The undersecretary Pfundtner provided pressure at the involved building contractors, replacing companies immediately by other, if they weren't confirm to the multiple-shift operation or offer resistance for other reasons.

Weiterhin waren die Bauunternehmen verpflichtet, nur „wirtschaftsfriedliche Arbeiter deutscher Staatsangehörigkeit und arischer Abstammung“ zu beschäftigen.

Furthermore the building contractors were obliged only to employ "economy peaceful workers of German nationality and Indo-Germanic (aryan) descent.

Während im April 1935 die Zahl der Beschäftigten noch 1.500 betrug, wurden im Juli 1935 bereits 2.064 Arbeiter registriert, um den zeitlichen Rückstand des Bauvorhabens aufzuholen.

While the number of the employees still was amounting to 1,500 in April 1935, already 2,064 workers were registered in July 1935 to catch up the temporal delay of the building scheme.

Zeitweise waren auf dem Reichssportfeld 500 Firmen mit bis zu 2.600 Personen beschäftigt, generell wurde in zwei Schichten gearbeitet.

At times 500 companies with up to 2,600 persons were busy on the empire sports ground (Reichssportfeld), working generally in two layers.

 

[asioasioasio]

ok i reconsidered it and i'll make olimpia stadium in berlin - probably in both version - 1936 and 2006