![]() The best way to get better at something is to do it. If you find that you like doing something in particular, practice that style. Ryer's advice for aspiring builders? “Build whatever you want, try different things. I had joined, and now co-own a server called Architects MC and most of these skyscrapers came from a city we are making on there called Clermont.” I was never able to create enough towers to do it until recently however. What possessed Ryer to shoot for an entire weeks worth of towering builds? “Skyscraper week is an old idea of mine, dating probably all the way back to the middle of 2015. Just putting together one steel monolith of a skyscraper would be enough for most people. I ended up starting to make skyscrapers, and I found them really fun to build, so I kept doing it.” All I knew was that I wanted to make something like that eventually. Those early projects started out small and I can’t for the life of me remember what they were. “So I bought the game and started making things. “Back in those days, I had never seen something like that in a game, and I wanted to do something similar. “Quite a long time ago, I had seen a video on YouTube of someone who had done a small recreation of the Shimizu Megacity Pyramid,” explains Ryer to us, when we ask how he discovered Minecraft. Well, ace builder Ryer actually came up with a better way – by combining the ideas of 'skycrapers' and 'weeks', and sharing a new, stunning skyscraper build every day for seven days as part of his own Skyscraper week! Indeed, the tallest skyscraper in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is over two thousand and seven hundred feet tall! What better way to celebrate such architectural awesomeness than building a skyscraper in Minecraft? ![]() Thanks to the ol' uppity-box, we can't get enough of scraping the sky with our industrial might. Tall buildings had been around for ages, but it was the invention of the elevator in the 19th century that took them to truly awesome heights. Point is, sometimes it takes the combination of two great ideas to finish a wonderful one. Someone invented 'slicing', mixed it with the invention of 'bread', and created sliced bread! An idea so amazing every future idea would be judged against it. Bakers were hated by all, and rightly so. Bread had to be eaten in miserable clumps, wet from all the tears rolling down your dough-covered cheeks. Sandwiches took weeks to construct, sometimes even months. “Composing the frescoes and the gardens was slow and careful work,” he says, but it definitely paid off! The interior is just as impressive, if not more impressive, than the exterior, with fountains, pools, arches and ten statues representing the six architectural values as well as the four elements: water, fire, earth and air.You're probably too young to remember what life was like before 'sliced bread' was invented, and we had to make do with regular 'bread'. “I directly built my idea in blocks, and there were a lot of attempts at colours, or shaping the elements and the structure itself.” He admits that this took a lot of time – at least three hours a day for 20-25 days. What’s even more impressive is that ArchiGa didn’t even plan out the Sky Gardens before building it. He even wrote a blog about it! “I wanted to amaze people,” ArchiGa admits, “and I think I did it!” I think so, too! When making builds, he tries to stick to the principles of proportion, which ancient architects would use to build things according to specific ratios. ![]() The most impressive task that ArchiGa took on, though, is the attention he paid to the baffling rules of architectural mathematics.
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