Day to Night: All Photoshop | Visualizing Architecture
This is and effective tutorial. The wet ground effect is hard to beat.
Unreal Engine 4 - »Infiltrator« - Realtime Tech-Demo zur UE4
Inspirational. Where architecture visualizations peaks with gaming.
The Art of Rendering
I remember seeing the first demo of GPU rendering before it really started to go mainstream, and my first thought was this is going to change everything. Specifically what the “purported” speed increases would mean to our business.
Source: The Art of Rendering: How Technology Will Revolutionize Architectural Representations - Architizer
Making of Queen Alia Airport
Ronen Bekerman - 3D Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog
Source: Making of Queen Alia Airport - 3D Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog
241 Major World Cities | ArchDaily
Creating designs for cities all over the planet may have just gotten a whole lot easier - thanks to Brandon Liu, a Software Developer from San Francisco who used data from OpenStreetMap to create .DXF CAD files of 241 major cities worldwide. These files are entirely free to download, and from San Francisco to Sydney, Buenos Aires to Beijing and Helsinki to Harare, most of the world's major cities are included.
Source: Free CAD Files of 241 Major World Cities | ArchDaily
City CAD files for download
By fooI've published a simple web page with 241 metro extracts in .DXF format. The source is the Mapzen Metro Extracts that I downloaded a week ago, so they won't be magically updated every week. In total they took 12 hours to generate on my laptop, and clock in at 3.5 GB unzipped. I did some testing on Mac and Windows, ruled out the bzip2 compression format 'cause Windows doesn't like it, and was successfully able to open files in Rhino, AutoCAD, and Revit!
Source: bdon.org
Guardians of Time: Mystic Sculpture by Manfred Kielnhofer | Urban Ghosts
Modern humanoid sculptures previously reported include the commanding Angel of the North and the divisive iron figures at Crosby Beach near Liverpool. But they don’t come any more mysterious than the Time Guards (or Timeguards) by Austrian artist Manfred Kielnhofer, which have a habit of appearing abruptly in public places one day and vanishing the next.
LED-lit pigeons illuminate New York skies in art exhibit
Thousands of pigeons with tiny LED lights strapped to their legs swooped through the darkening skies in a jaw-dropping display of beauty, but savvy New Yorkers gazing up at the performance art knew enough to keep their mouths shut.
Source: LED-lit pigeons illuminate New York skies in art exhibit
Federico Babina's ARCHIWRITER Illustrations Visualize the "Architecture of a Text"
Heightening this sense of individuality, Babina states that the resultant portraits can be “fluctuating, vernacular, itinerant, ephemeral, concentric, labyrinthine, surrealist, oneiric, and futuristic.”
Here are some of my favourites.
Making of Lake Lugano House - 3D Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog
David Santos recreates the Lugano House in this inspiring tutorial using VRAY Sketchup.
Why SketchUP? Because I love it! SketchUP is a powerful tool that is often underestimated, and let me show you the real power of this amazing tool.Like I said before, the project beginnings dates back to last year, when I started modelling with a raw CAD drawing that I made from JPG’s of the original drawings. After a lot of tests I found the correct way of modelling this.
Source: Making of Lake Lugano House - 3D Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog
EMIR TIGREL | UNIT 24
[embed]https://vimeo.com/131866520[/embed]
Source: EMIR TIGREL | UNIT 24
Spaxels - 100 Dancing Drones
Hoertner and his team of 15 people called the drones, “spaxels,” a hybrid of “space pixels.” He said he wanted to show how drones, known to many as weapons, can be used to create beauty and socially meaningful experiences.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ-js5zn-I0[/embed]
Experiences not Possessions
"People are becoming really disenchanted with the rental market."
Source: Millennials want experiences not possessions say co-living entrepreneurs
Prism
Each panel of the sculpture presented a different live feed, from transport information from TFL, environmental data from CASA, to live energy usage from Carbon Culture.
Source: Prism | KEIICHI MATSUDA
Augmented City 3D
Pieces of information that swim around us all day
[embed]https://vimeo.com/14294054[/embed]
Source: Augmented (hyper)Reality: Augmented City 3D | KEIICHI MATSUDA
Augmented (hyper)Reality
synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise
[embed]https://vimeo.com/8569187[/embed]
Source: Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop | KEIICHI MATSUDA
Reversible Destiny: Arakawa + Gins
This website is the real deal!
Reversible Destiny Foundation is an non profit organization practicing Architecture Against Death
