Manhattan's skyline is one of the most beautiful sights to see in the country, with many 100-story buildings towering over New York City's fast-passed and bustling atmosphere.

The internationally beloved peninsula, with a population of more than 1.6 million residents, has been the makings of a great city for nearly the last 250 years.

It took some of the greatest architects in the world to make Manhattan the visually attractive city it is today.

However, one computer science graduate student is in the process of constructing a 1:1 model of the Big Apple in the popular Minecraft video game, according to Business Insider.

The Swedish based game, which can be played on PC, PlayStations 3, 4 and Vita, as well as Xbox One and 360, allow players to construct their virtual homes and landscape by collecting natural resources. Players can also travel through the Minecraft universe and interact or battle with other users.

Christopher Mitchell has been working on the virtual construction since March 25, 2013 and hopes to create an accurate and realistic depiction by using real-life buildings in their exact locations to model after.

Insider reported that to create the models, Mitchell has been using "orthoimagery, bathyspheric, and elevation data from the USGS EROS service, and 3D buildings from Google's 3D Warehouse."

When it comes time to render the model, which needs a few hours, the designer will also rely on a server cluster with 300 cores and 200 GB RAM.

Currently, Mitchell is 65 percent complete with 277 million square meters of terrain and 71 billion cubic meters of compressed information, which can monitored on Gametech's SparseWorld site.

Some of the most notable New York City landmarks such as Yankee Stadium, the Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Bridge, Madison Square Garden and the New York Public Library have been completed in the model while part of Times Square has been construted.