Gare Montparnasse, Railway Station in 1852

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A bit of History

This is the second Montparnasse railway station replacing the first one built in 1840 (then called embarcadère du Maine) just outside the Paris’ walls. This station has been built between 1848-1852 and was known first as “gare de l’Ouest rive Gauche” (St Lazare was the “gare de l’ouest rive droite” before to be named gare Montparnasse.[2]
The station architects were Victor Lenoir and Alphonse Baude (chief Engineer at the Compagnie de l’ouest). the hall (and iron floors) is from Eugene Flachat, The ornamental statues on the clock are from Hubert Lavigne and are supposed to represent the “industry” and the “agriculture”.

Estrela Doce Bakery

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This is my personal project based on the reference I found in archdaily.com. I tried to do detail modeling in SketchUp as much as I can and try to mimic the real photo of bakery shop with VRay for SketchUp.

Photographs Credit: Mário Jacinto

B&TB + BIG: CityLife Milano. COMPETITION WON

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B&TB + BIG: CityLife Milano. COMPETITION WON
It seems the people at BIG have won the CityLife Milano competition.
Two individual buildings will be connected by a 140m long hanging roof structure and will form a generous urban-scale portico as the entrance to the city.
This was the best way we found to express it.
Images courtesy by Beauty and The Bit.
Have a nice week you all…