BrickTopia
Far
East
Travel Agency
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In an age of discount Internet sites and direct, airline reservations, one might scoff at the idea of starting a new, full-service, travel agency. However, entrepreneurs maintained that the problem was not with too much service, but with not enough. They maintained that there was a lucrative market niche available for providing complete vacation packages to the rich including travel, meals, servants, entertainment, and even adversity. In fact, adversity is one of the key lures of a Far East Agency vacation. Wealthy citizens are bored with their easy lives and want to take risks. The Far East Agency provides many different kinds of problems including floods, insect bites, infection, and robbery, just to name a few. Surprisingly, this built-in risk and adversity in vacation packages has built the Far East Travel Agency into a leading business in BrickTopia in the span of only a few short months. To cope with the constant flow of wealthy customers and to house the
swelling ranks of employees, it was necessary to create a large new building
for the company. The result is this impressive skyscraper blending
Western and Asian architectural styles. |
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Here, one sees a picture snapped by a customer approaching the
agency. The bottom floor is styled to look like an The upper floors take on a more modern appearance, housing various company offices. The structure of the building is formed from 3 perpendicular wings with
curved ends. Around each wing are wrapped two tear-dropped clear
structures. These tear-dropped spaces are too small to use for offices.
They are purely ornamental and their obvious expense (and wasted space) is
intended to highlight the success of the Far East Travel Agency. |
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The back of the building is more similar to other skyscrapers in BrickTopia
with a fairly linear look. |
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The picture below shows the top of the building. The front of the building is marked by a large, Indian dome. Behind this dome is a smokey-clear arched roof structure covering the main atrium in the building (and housing the elevator motor - See interior shots below). On either side, wings of office space project from the center of the building.
The shot below shows a close-up of the entrance. Note the complex arrangement of columns on the bottom three floors. This layering of columns is taken from Gothic Architecture so that the actual boundaries of the structure are hard to discern.
