Creating a virtual candlelight tour of the Washington Navy Yard

Architectural Reconstruction Project-Our assignment for this week was a recreate a historic neighborhood using a historic map overlaid on a Google Earth map. We were then to recreate some of the buildings in this neighborhood using Google Sketch-Up. I’ve spent the better part of a decade in one particular neighborhood, the Washington Navy [...]

No Sanborn love for military installations?

I’m a little frustrated with the historical reconstruction project due new week.  I’d love to recreate the Washington Navy Yard, circa 1890 or 1925.  Why those two time periods?  The Naval Historical Center has some great photographs and paintings from both of those time periods and I’ve never had a chance to work with them.  [...]

Building my dream house in Google Sketch-Up

Lots of fun in Google Sketch-Up this week.  I started out trying to recreate some of the buildings at Chatham Historic Dockyard in England .  I was there last fall and fell in love with the place.  I quickly became sidetracked though with all the fun tools that Sketch-Up has to offer and ended up [...]