The city's virtual construction process has largely focused on Manhattan so far, dividing the borough into districts.

For such a massive undertaking, organization is crucial. Today, the city is almost complete.Ī team of over 2,500 people assisted Minefact in the virtual recreation of the city. It's housed within a larger project dubbed Build the Earth. Starting in 1920, the sights and sounds of the ‘roaring twenties’ accompany your journey as you build a skyscraper, join construction workers for a dangerous sky-high lunch, and race to catch a movie.Some people think of video games as an escape from real life, but one group of Minecraft players has been hard at work creating a virtual replica of the real world.Īs Curbed reports, a 21-year-old player who goes by the name Minefact started a project in 2020 to build a 1:1 rendition of New York City in Minecraft, the most popular and best-selling video game of all time. In the fictional Tate Worlds map, inspired by the painting, you board a train taking you the past emerging landmarks that Nevinson observed with awe, before roller-coasting into the future as the skyscrapers go up and up and up. It has been suggested that the change of title may reflect the artist’s disappointment following the poor reception of his work in New York.

The painting was originally titled New York – an Abstraction, but was renamed with its more sombre title later as his optimism for the future and excitement for this new city waned. Its emerging skyscrapers and railways epitomised the dynamism of the modern metropolis, inspiring British artist Christopher Nevinson to paint this Futurist-style painting Soul of the Soulless City after a visit to New York in 1919.įuturism was an artistic movement that emphasized and glorified themes associated with an optimistic view of the future, such as speed, technology, youth and even violence, and objects such as the car, the aeroplane and the industrial city. New York in the years following the First World War was a bustling and fast-changing place.

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