From the beginning I had a vision of how the building would look. I wanted to go for a nice sunny day ( I know they are rare in Sweden) looking at the google street views, I saw nice bright sunny days. just had this one picture of the building which really helped me with the reflection on the glass. I tried many cameras for the final shot, but settled with this one. I have always made the main building stand alone, but this time i wanted it to be placed in such an image where it’s character could be compared to another building at close range. A sort of street view. To be honest I haven’t used any reference images for the shot besides the one I’m uploading.

This is a different mood for the last shot i liked but i guess that i will use the blue sky one for the final render.
The last thing I will do is adding some details and final retouched the i will put it into render.

I aimed for procedural and very structural shader which will contain as much material information as possible. I decided to use 2 tilable bitmaps for base texture, and all other small and big details of glossy parts, oxidized areas and burnt out areas were achieved procedurally via noise maps, composite materials and variations of materials.

I also did some work on ground textures.

Next step will be color balancing them all together, adding lively assets and going for final render!