our latest public project, Belvetica city is whirring along at an impressive tempo. Our first skyscraper has been erected and is now in it’s final inspection and teleport configuration. Our first ten retail spots are a mere week from opening in the city’s first region: bel Tempo.
We’ve also INCREASED the prize money for our building competition! In an effort to stay competitive in the realm of semi-professional architecture, we are now offering L$12,000 per building chosen to stand in Belvetica.
Contact Lefty Belvedere with any questions. Click here for the updated official contest info.
City of Belvetica
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We here at Belvedere are proud to introduce our next public project in Second Life:
Belvetica.
Almost two years ago, Lefty Belvedere created a small group of friends and architects called the Belvedere Metropolitan Initiative. The group’s goal was the creation of a dynamic, flexible, high-density commerce region. You can call it a city.
Two years is a very long time in the lifetime of Second Life and it has been perfectly unfeasible to create an effective, stable, bustling city until very recently. Funds and technologies have simultaneously become available and so we now break ground.
The city of Belvetica is going to be a dense, urban shopping experience that is unique to Second Life. For two years we have been drawing up plans that will take us beyond the typical “snow globe feel” of a Second Life city. We have written a formula which breaks free from the typical miniature-city style limitations. Second Life has dozens of failed metropolis projects in the past but Belvetica will be unique to the avatar’s needs and efficient for the user’s viewer.
Belvetica’s first region, “bel Tempo” will set the pace of a new bustling center for commerce with fourteen (14) skyscrapers and 168 unique retail spaces. Zoning will be finished by December 7th and building construction will follow.
Belvetica is being built by a smattering of Second Life’s finest architects because we have opened a contest for builders. If you are interested in having your own skyscraper viewed by hundreds of thousands of people then click here for official metrics, rules and guides. This competition is geared towards small, fun projects that can be accomplished in 70 unique prims or less which gives plenty of chances for each architect to submit multiple entries.
Sincerely,
Lefty Belvedere
Belvedere inc.
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