[Resource] Architectural References

[howling techie]

Well, was just told to post in here about a factory that I live quite close by to. None of these are my images.

Link to Google Street view location

Bonus old picture:

 

[TheBestUsername]

@howling techie: Thank you so much for that first pic in particular. Truly looks like neighboring Red and Blu bases.

P.S. I just had a contest idea: Pick three or so photos from this thread and make a map based on them.

 

[Seba]

I think I have some pictures of abandoned mines in Alaska; they might be made more touristy than they originally were, but they're still rad as tats. I'll look for them and upload soon.

EDIT: http://imgur.com/a/KbkR4 I thought I had more, hmph. I guess I'll have to find the SD card.

 

[ThePhlubs]

 

[Ælement]

Stumbled over this old bathhouse on my trip to the US

 

[Pocket]

Hey, y'all, remember when I told you about that Pittsburgh steel mill across the river from Kennywood? The other day I decided to try to find it on Google Maps so I could maybe look it up by name. Turns out it's called the Edgar Thompson Steel Works, and holy cow does it have everything. Big steel buildings, those ramp things way up in the air like Granary has, a jillion train tracks going past it and through it, and even a massive loading dock on the river. It's apparently one of very few old steel mills that survived the big US industrial crash of the '70s and '80s. And boy do I wish I knew someone who worked there so I could get them to take better photos of everything.

Here's the Google Earth link, though. It might give you some ideas.

 

[SSX]

 

[takabuschik]

Wow this thread is really great!
I'll add some pictures too

This is "Angel" mill and flour factory, just 5 minutes from my school:

This is "Nesher" (Eagle) cement factories:

 

[Yacan1]

Hey, y'all, remember when I told you about that Pittsburgh steel mill across the river from Kennywood? The other day I decided to try to find it on Google Maps ...

Oh yeah I love this place, it's about a 30 minute drive from my house. One of the best references I've seen. It's cool since the train ride at Kennywood amusement park is just on the edge of a hill that over looks the river and the mill. It's a really cool sight after dark. If I knew how to capture soundscapes it would be fantastic for that too. It's one of the most general "factory" ambient noises ever, steam pipes, trucks, cranes moving, barges, water from the river, general tech noises. If you're ever in the area, I recommend stopping by it.

 

[Crash]

I took some new pictures when I had to kill some time around town a few weeks ago

Have a new album!

My phone's camera does funny things when I take pictures while driving.

Also, I'm pretty sure I'm on a list somewhere now for taking a few of these.

 

[xzzy]

Hold on let me go make a new material for stoneyridge so we can litter it with shit colored balls of melting ice.

And the sodden lifeless grass.

 

[Crash]

 

[Pocket]

This is "Nesher" (Eagle) cement factories:

Cement factory! Now there's something that hasn't been done in TF2 yet. And looking at the pictures Google spat out at me, I can't see why. Most of them look like large complexes full of small interconnected structures.

I mean, look at this craziness. Granted, that's a pretty new facility from what I can tell, but still.

 

[takabuschik]

yeah cement factories are really cool. A lot of complex colorful pipes and giant silos everywhere. I went on a guided tour to the cement factory (in my picture), I think I might have photos of it somewhere, if I'll find anything in my computer I'll post here


Edit:

 

[ThrowingPie]

Some Picture's of the Edgewater power plant, Lorain Ohio.
My father worked there and grabbed some photos before it was torn down in 2011, so feel free to ask questions about the pictures.


Front of Building

Coal yard behind plant

Album of other pictures (inside and out) along with newer pictures:
http://s89.photobucket.com/user/Throwingpie518/library/Tf2 Edgewater pics

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Here's a gallery of pictures from the Portland Head Light, a lighthouse on the Coast of Maine in the North East of the US. Notice the really rocky beaches that upper New England is known for.

(I took these images, for credit's sake)

 

[wareya]

Bunch of pictures I took (maybe a couple someone else took, these are organized very badly over here!) all around southern new england. There's a little bit of everything.

http://imgur.com/a/1gf9C#0

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Bunch of pictures I took (maybe a couple someone else took, these are organized very badly over here!) all around southern new england. There's a little bit of everything.

http://imgur.com/a/1gf9C#0

Thats nots castles and scones and tea!

 

[Pocket]

I don't know what's supposed to be going on here, but it amuses me.

 

[Grand Tickler]

I seriously though they were screenshots of REALLY detailed maps at first....It's Team Fortress 2 In real life!!!

You should have made a trap and baited it with a sandwich