HQ building «Raduga»
The mod contains one high-rise headquarters building with several functions to choose from:
1. Communist Party HQ (30% more vanilla)
2. Secret police (~8 times more vanilla)
3. Electronics factory. It assumes an orientation towards scientific and design developments in the field of communications and information protection, including for the military-industrial complex. Productivity is low and requires a wider range of raw materials. The applicability of such a building in the game rests only on the player’s imagination.
The KGB hq has 32 places for official cars. For other versions of the building, it is possible to build a compatible parking lot for employees. It is built without collision, with the possibility of binding to a mutual center point. Heating required. It is being built in four stages: excavation, installation of panels (5 cranes), installation of tower panels (1 crane), finishing. See screenshots for details.
Initially, the height of the building was supposed to be about 100 meters, but it was reduced in order to avoid littering the panoramic views from historical part of the city. The building rises above the embankments and surrounding buildings, and from the side of the Lesnaya metro station effectively closes the prospect of Kantemirovskaya Street, which is in line with the classic St. Petersburg traditions. In addition, the dense development of Bolshoi Sampsonievsky Prospect makes it impossible to see the tower until you are on the square itself. This achieves the effect that was used by XVIII-XIX architects. The overall composition of the complex also includes the space in front of the tower, the center of which was supposed to be a fountain. But it was launched only in 2002, and it functioned for only a few years. At the moment, these recreational areas are in a deplorable state, like many elements of the exterior decoration of the building itself.
The project of the building was developed by the Leningrad State Design Institute No. 5 in the early 80s under the direction of B.E. Sandler for LNPO Krasnaya Zarya. In view of the presence of weak soils at the construction site, the type of foundation was of particular importance. Specialists from the Leningrad branch of the Fundamentproekt State Design Institute proposed to put a new house on a «hollow box», thereby increasing the stability of the building. Weight and wind load are transferred to the ground through a box-section foundation supported by 700 piles. The core of the building is the shafts of six elevators, and the structure itself is a reinforced concrete frame with external panels. The low-rise wings of the building are assembled from reinforced concrete columns and beams. The outer walls are finished with expanded clay concrete panels, into which the finishing material, Saarema dolomite, has already been installed at the factory. The glazing of the building was carried out with teraflex double-glazed windows made in the GDR, a feature of which is the deposition of antimony oxides several microns thick between two layers of glass, which gave the glass a bronze-chocolate color.
After construction, the building housed AOOT «NPP Raduga» (research and production enterprise), which was one of the divisions of the LNPO «Krasnaya Zarya» and later separated into an independent organization. The company specializes in the development of data transmission systems and the creation of hardware and software tools for capturing, documenting, processing and transmitting color graphic information about the situation on the ground. In addition, developments were carried out in the field of information security. After the collapse of the USSR, the owner of the building, like many others, began to rent out free space. Thus, most of the building turned into a business center. The building housed a household appliances store, an office of the first-generation cellular operator FORA Communications, the St. Petersburg branch of Promradtekhbank AB OAO RADUGA, and other tenants. At the moment, NPP «Raduga» occupies only one of the floors of the building. The people called the building Barad-dur and the Eye of Sauron.
Model, textures, code, debugging — Shotkey
Special thanks to the comrade CatAlarm, who financed and supported the development process.
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Revisions:
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