Amsterdam buildings

[Koosie van Tutte]

for quite some time now i am planning to draw a piece of amsterdam in sketchup. drawing of the buildings is not so very difficult, just a lot of work, and i have rather detailed drawings to work from. apart from that there are quite a lot of photos from different sources.
one of the problems is that most of the old canal houses are not built exactly vertical, these bend over. that is not, as often thought because of bad foundation. these buildings were built that way on purpose to protect the facade from rain.
thanks to the great plugins by fredo6 i think i can build it much more realistic - for the left building i used 'radial bending' just to try out. at first that did not work properly, but after i used 'intersect with model' for the building it worked perfectly!
these are two buildings on the 'prinsengracht'

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[Rich O Brien]

that's a great model and some interesting facts about the leaning houses. i lived in Amsterdam for 6months and always wondered why the houses were that way. At the time i presumed it was to do with getting furnishings to the upper floors. how much further from the truth could i have been?

[Koosie van Tutte]

it does help with the furniture too

[olishea]

Great model man, can you post it on 3d warehouse? I'd like to try and make a typical dam scene . I love amsterdam i've been there 4 times although not necessarily for the architecture!! the buildings get really creepy at night!