The Boundary Store is OPEN!
The promised store by The Boundary is now open! The Carey House Scene, which has been the subject of a series of tutorials over the past 6 months is the first product up for grabs. More complete 3d scenes are planned and hopefully individual 3d models and textures as well.
The State of the Blog / Birthday #6
Today marks the 6th year this Blog is running! The old saying stays true this time around as well – time indeed flies when you’re having fun. I hope you had lots of it here in the past year while sharing, learning and challenging yourself with new architectural visualisation work. Most of you probably take some much-needed R&R this month as I do and I wish you all the best and lots of fun, looking forward seeing you here during year no. 7 with more great stuff starting here with a recap, plans for the future and great giveaways as usual.
Nakagin Capsule Tower by Bertrand Benoit
Bertrand Benoit showcases his latest creation, three months in the making – The 3d recreation of the 1972 Metabolistic Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo by the late architect Kisho Kurokawa. This is a full-CG attempt at modeling and rendering a detail-heavy urban scene, and a pretty successful one (no surprise here!). We’ve seen this project being referenced before by Jean-Marc Emy in his winning CityLIFE challenge entry. It is unique and so is Bertrand’s work on it.
ENDÉMICO by GRACIA STUDIO
More wine related inspiration for The Vineyard challengers today. Located in Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico’s Wine Country, Baja California, a set of twenty independent rooms of twenty square meters each are nestled in the landscape as part of the Endémico Resguardo Silvestre project. Operated by Grupo Habita, a Design Hotels member, it includes a winery and a residential area as well. Very much open world style, and inline with the challenge programmatic brief!
Making of Arts & Crafts
Diego Querol shared his beautiful Arts&Crafts images back in March on the forums. Since then he shared two more sets related to this great personal project, the upper area of the studio and a Tattoo Salon, as well as winning the 3dawards with the image behind. Today he takes us for a ride into his great looking mess of things, breaking it down to bits from initial concept to final post-production. Enjoy!
Chateau Margaux Winery by Foster + Partners
A sketch, well done, is powerful still! Today’s inspiration piece, by Foster + Partners, is related to The Vineyard Challenge. A new addition to Chateau Margaux Winery since completed two hundred years ago. Check out the new canopied addition on organic shaped pillars with beautiful vines landscape around it.