WBC Builds – Building The Greenwich Royal Naval College In Minecraft

Well have you ever found an image of a famous place that doesn’t look quite right perhaps there was another part planned but never came to be well that’s what happened with the royal naval college over in greenwich now when it was originally designed and planned and published in victorious britannicus in

Around about the 1730s it showed the main four buildings with a central building where it featured a large dome now in real life this is where the queen’s house sits and has done since 1635 so after doing a bit of digging on what this building might have been turns

Out it was never built but some sketches and images were produced for it now all of this information sparked the idea in my head i wonder what this would look like in minecraft so the palace of hampwick was born and along with my team and myself we went ahead and started

Constructing it as the parliament of whiteberg city so shall we get started so you’ve probably got a few questions and that’s fine we’ll get to them i’m sure but first of all the idea is why would you take a building that doesn’t exist and try and bring it into

Minecraft if you don’t have all the information about it well we will get onto that once we build what we’ve named in this world greenwich house which is the building based on that central unbuilt section of greenwich now what i wanted to start with here was the main

Four buildings that all of you know and love if you’ve ever studied english baroque so these were designed by sir christopher wren and his apprentice chris hallsmaul in around 1700 through to about 1730. this place was built as a royal naval hospital for semen and it

Was used up until the 1800s when it turned into the royal naval college and it’s now currently part of greenwich university so the building itself is four separate blocks that are symmetrically mirrored across the center the original design for this was to allow the queen’s house which is that

Building we mentioned in the intro to sit there in the center and look down onto the river thames still now in my mind this was great i love the way it’s all set up and myself and the team are really interested in building this You’ve probably got another question as well what drew you to this place i just love english baroque i think it’s a great style that wasn’t very well you know it didn’t live for very long only probably around about 40 years worth of time did english baroque exist you have obviously

Sir christopher wren who’s the most famed english baroque architect along with nicholas hortsmore and also van berg now they built such places as blenheim palace st paul’s cathedral and countless other churches in and around london so myself and the goblin on the server are absolute lovers of english

Brock so what better than to choose for the centerpiece of the main city on our server to be this homage to english baroque now in our world this is the parliament so the idea here is each one of these buildings features a wing of government so in whiteberg it’s based on

The english parliament system so you’ve got the house of commons and the house of lords now the two domed structures one on the left is the house of lords and the one on the right is the house of commons the two buildings in the center at the front the first ones we’ve built

Those are the foreign office and the empire office now this all sits on a beautiful riverfront which overlooks the river even in our world now all of this was done uh as a pre-build and then we rebuilt it on camera so in total i think we’ve probably spent about three or four

Months building everything you’re going to see in this video Now all of you are probably thinking yeah but why didn’t you just build the house of the parliament if you are based in this on england i’m not the biggest fan of neo-gothic architecture and building the palace of westminster it’s never been high up on my list of things

To do you guys out there in the community have done it so many times that there’s no point me rehashing that one greenwich really hasn’t been built that much and we wanted to give it our own spin so i think it’s time to move away from the main four blocks and onto

Some of the ancillary buildings over on the right hand side So any large structure requires ancillary buildings now this place is no different so there’s stables blocks for the crowns workers and also an old palace so yeah that’s not really usual this was the palace of placentia which was built as a replacement to the old royal palace here at greenwich now

Greenwich palace as it was in the trudeau times was where henry viii was born now i have actually been into the basement of the royal naval college where some parts of that tudor structure still survive in form of the vaulted ceiling of the cellar but still charles

Ii wanted to build a facade-like palace here it never came to full fruition what you are left with is one section at the front of the stables here known as the palace of placentia and that is it it just sits there and it’s now used as storage i believe for the

Greenwich university but behind all of this is another section of buildings which was part of the naval college actually part of the royal naval hospital that originally was so it was built as the siemens hospital which is just for those lesser sea men who aren’t actually officers and this is where they

Would go and convalesce and get their treatments in our world this is the office of the home so this is the office that actually controls what happens inside whiteberg and off to the side of that is the office of labor and welfare so sort of the nhs of uh 19th century

England well whiteberg as we call it here so guys i think it’s time to move on to our next chapter which is the parks So the parks that surround the entire complex are royal and this means they are royal hunting grounds that allow the monarchs to go around and kill the deer inside it and do what they want with the ground uh during our time now it’s open to the public it is just a space for

Them to go rome promenade through enjoy the sights and scenes what you’re going to see me building here is the church of saint peter and some pool that sits in the corner of the main central park which spans around greenwich house will get onto greenwich house in a bit now

This was based and designed on the church of saint peter and saint paul’s in blantford uh and it’s one of the finest examples of a children church outside of london built originally in 1734. now i was going to do a brix to blocks video on this and i may still do that

Now this video is out so stick around for that i have a lot of real-life footage of it that i want to use in a video anyway the rest of the parks are just set out in a nice formal fashion with large trees dotted along paths that criss-cross across the landscape and

Some lovely townhouses built by aussie and christa that don the sides of this area the larger royal parks that were going to be at the back of this never got built for this video unfortunately we ran out of time but in later episodes of the whiteberg city update you will

See the rest of these parks so make sure you go and head on over to that playlist later on once this video is done uh click the little thing up at the top corner as well to make sure you have the right playlist so i think that’s the

Park’s done it’s time to move on to our next chapter and that is greenwich house So greenwich house doesn’t exist i think i’ve mentioned that a few times but what this is is an amalgamation of designs and ideas now i took it upon myself to design this place uh with a bit of help from the team now the overall arching inspiration i came to for this was that

Chapel design designed by nicholas hawks more to sit there in the center of the entire complex the building itself was meant to be around about 400 foot tall it was going to rival the height of central’s cathedral now i actually came to the conclusion of how to build this place based on some

Paintings i found online i will leave a link below to where you can go find them they were great they were an entire study of going through the different schemes that nicholas hortsmore had developed for this area so they’re really worth having a look at if you’re

Interested by this at all but for me the building itself is a just very large grand brock central style lots of heavy columns around here now i did notice a few people when i posted this before commented on the shape and size of these columns so they’re two blocks wide which means they

Need to be about 20 blocks tall because they are corinthian columns from base to capital uh and so they do follow the proportions that they should correctly do now a side point you may notice statues all over the place now these statues actually feature my face in different styles of stone and material

So thank you aussie for designing those and i believe at a current count there is close to 200 of these located around here now the dome itself is quite a simple structure i didn’t want to go for anything too fancy with this one we did

Try a bit of ribbing on it but i ultimately thought it was a bit too heavy for that um i know there are obviously many better domes out there designed by all of the amazing community we have but this one just fits right in my mind

I love it i love the drum around it as well the slender columns lead up to it and the lantern on top it’s just in my mind it’s beautiful now i will obviously develop and build better domes throughout time but for now this is my peak domage so i mentioned earlier this

Building actually houses the prime minister of whitebeard so as we have in real life with 10 downing street being the main residence for the premier this building is but he only lives in the back wing and the back wing is based on hampton court palace slightly extended

Over uh quite a lot of bays now this all cut up this building into different sections and when we go on the showcase tour i’ll show you exactly which bits they are but in total we have the treasury war office uh and a couple of other offices at the back for the

Running of the cabinet and then the prime minister just lives in the central section of the back building it’s a nice place it’s not massive it’s not the entire palace that a lot of people thought um the big dome structure it just sits over an atrium the main

Walkway into all of the offices and it gives a great place to go and give them speeches out in front of the country so i think overall this entire building is now done and so is the entirety of greenwich as we call it that’s sort of

Our code name for it the palace of hamwick uh so you may notice a few buildings being splotted around coming in being pasted down these were all pre-built people brought in well actually they were pre-built to be built by hand afterwards on camera but that never came

To fruition because i think a lot of you know we kind of run out of time on this uh so we couldn’t go back and rebuild everything together for the time lapse so what i will do i i will go around and i will showcase every single one of

These buildings and as much as this landscape as i can but guys this isn’t the end of the story of whitebook city on my channel i’m running a series called whiteberg city updates where i show you what i’m building and the planning process behind it also just

What i have done so i’m building some townhouses and railway lines at the moment so guys if that interests you go ahead go watch those videos they are great fun to make and i can’t wait to make more for you but still so guys i think it’s now time for me to introduce

You to the cinematic known as the prime minister’s walk so i’ll see you for our goodbyes after the video So Well guys i just want to say a massive thank you all for sticking around for probably the best part of six months while we’ve been teasing this video now it hasn’t taken us six months to build it’s just been the planning process to rebuild they’re getting some time to

Actually sit down and build in-game because life is hectic man but anyway so thank you all for watching i hope you’ve enjoyed this little whistle-stop tour around the construction of the palace of hamwick and like i said stick around for a lovely showcase where i walk around

The entirety giving you a proper rundown of what’s happening around here but for now guys remember get inspired get burning and i’ll see you next time goodbye You