While some architects opt for super-realistic renderings of their designs, others prefer more atmospheric, painterly images – but you can see a wide variety of both styles on our new Pinterest board, including this conceptual tower drawn up by visualiser Forbes Massie. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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These renderings by visualisation studio VER depict a board-marked concrete house with factory-like glazing, which Mexican architecture studio Lázaro is planning to build in the city of Uruapan. More about Lázaro presents loft-style house in visuals that "go beyond hyper-realistic"
Two timber-clad villas – one dark and the other silvery grey – balance over a steep hillside on the Swedish island of Lidingö, in these intricately rendered visuals of the project by Ström Architects. More about Ström Architects reveals hyper-realistic renderings for pair of Swedish island villas
Those unable to visit Mies van der Rohe's iconic Barcelona Pavilion can now tour the building remotely through a virtual-reality experience created by architectural visualisation studio CL3VER. More about CL3VER launches virtual tour of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion
Designer Giles Miller has worked with visualiser Forbes Massie to draw up designs for a huge monument with a cross-shaped plan and textured brick walls. More about Giles Miller and Forbes Massie imagine towering monument with walls of offset bricks
An unbuilt chapel by Frank Lloyd Wright has been realised in these colour visualisations by architect David Romero, featuring red walkways, a green shingle spire and stained-glass windows. More about Frank Lloyd Wright's unbuilt Trinity Chapel brought to life in images by David Romero
RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon have revealed plans for a monument commemorating the huge feat of engineering behind the Dutch Delta Works – a vast network of dams, sluices, locks and levees designed to prevent flooding in the Netherlands. More about Monument by RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon will commemorate "Dutch struggle against water"
Curving blocks overlap to create the sinuous form of this conceptual house, designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos to frame seven tiered gardens in Spain. More about Sinuous buildings curve around tiered gardens in housing concept by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Architect David Romero has created colour visualisations of a pair of now-demolished Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, previously only visible in black-and-white photographs. More about David Romero recreates Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in colour visualisations
These atmospheric renderings reveal designs by Oslo-based Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter for a pair of angular holiday cabins in the Norwegian countryside. More about Reiulf Ramstad designs angular wooden cabins for a Norwegian valley
Dezeen promotion: this film by Eizo ColorEdge follows visualisation artist Forbes Massie as he describes his studio's methods for creating images that "your grandmother falls in love with" (+ movie). More about CGI artist Forbes Massie explains his approach in new film by Eizo ColorEdge
This proposal for a concrete chapel by Joaquim Portela Arquitetos is designed to reach up towards the sky from its site in the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). More about Alpine chapel designed by Joaquim Portela Arquitetos as a giant light funnel
Visualisation artist Forbes Massie has exhibited a series of architectural renderings with a painterly rather than photorealistic aesthetic at the Protein Studios gallery in east London (+ slideshow). More about CGI artist Forbes Massie unveils "completely seductive" renderings in London exhibition
People's impromptu sketches of bicycles have been turned into a series of absurd-looking digital renderings in the Velocipedia project (+ slideshow). More about Velocipedia project brings hopeless bicycle drawings to life with digital renders
For those who aren't able to visit BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion this summer, Swiss visualisation studio Archilogic has made it possible to take an unofficial tour of the building using virtual reality (+ interactive 3D model). More about Digital model offers virtual-reality users a preview of BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Plans to build a subterranean residence with a swimming pool for a roof were given the go-ahead this week, prompting us to pin wildly ambitious house designs – built or imagined – to a new Pinterest board.
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Architectural visualiser Alex Hogrefe has imagined a precarious concrete retreat cut into the edge of a remote clifftop in Iceland, as part of a series of tutorials in creating renderings (+ slideshow). More about Alex Hogrefe's conceptual retreat cuts into a remote Icelandic clifftop
The super rich can commission a bespoke home the same way they buy a luxury yacht using the Superhouse brand, according to founder Magnus Ström (+ 360-degree render). More about Ström Architects applies superyacht concept to luxury housing with Superhouse
Architect Henry Goss has completed a rusted steel and timber-clad extension to a house near Cambridge, England, two years after Dezeen published the hyper-realistic renderings that changed his life (+ slideshow). More about Henry Goss completes house that launched his career as an architectural visualiser
Visualisation studio Bloomimages has created a series of hyper-realistic renderings depicting a home and studio for an artist in the ageing concrete structures of an old shipyard on the edge of the North Sea (+ slideshow). More about Photo-realistic renderings depict an imaginary house in a wild seaside landscape