Alpine chapel designed by Joaquim Portela Arquitetos as a giant light funnel
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
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CGI artist Forbes Massie unveils "completely seductive" renderings in London exhibition
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
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Velocipedia project brings hopeless bicycle drawings to life with digital renders
People's impromptu sketches of bicycles have been turned into a series of absurd-looking digital renderings in the Velocipedia project (+ slideshow). More
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Digital model offers virtual-reality users a preview of BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
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
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Daring house designs feature on Dezeen's new Pinterest board
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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Alex Hogrefe's conceptual retreat cuts into a remote Icelandic clifftop
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
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Ström Architects applies superyacht concept to luxury housing with Superhouse
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
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Henry Goss completes house that launched his career as an architectural visualiser
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
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Photo-realistic renderings depict an imaginary house in a wild seaside landscape
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
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Visual artist recreates Paul Rudolph house as the architect intended it to be
LA-based architect and visual artist Dan Huh has created a set of renderings that depict Paul Rudolph's original design for the celebrated Milam Residence in Florida (+ slideshow). More
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James Whitaker proposes cluster of shipping containers as an affordable workplace
These renders by London architect James Whitaker depict a proposal for a low-cost studio space in Germany comprising a cluster of shipping containers, which are arranged to direct sunlight into the interior at different times of day (+ slideshow). More
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Carey House by Henry Goss: "Visualisation played a vital role in design decisions"
London architect Henry Goss has revealed how photo-realistic and 3D visualisations helped shape his design for this house in Hertfordshire, England, which is also the first output from the renderings studio he recently launched with fellow artist Peter Guthrie (+ slideshow). More
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Ström Architects designs a country house protruding over a wall
These renderings depict a house designed by Ström Architects for the English town of Swanage, with a cantilevered section that shelters a parking space (+ slideshow). More
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Fantasy house by Benoit Challand perched on stilts in the Scottish highlands
French visual artist Benoit Challand has combined the visual language of Le Corbusier's houses and Santiago Calatrava's sculptures to form a vision for a futuristic self-sustaining house on stilts (+ slideshow). More
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Olson Kundig and Jack Daws imagine a house on stilts above a polluted lake
Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects has produced visualisations imagining the fictional scenes before and after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals haphazardly plunged into a lake where artist Jack Daws was building a house on stilts (+ slideshow). More
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London's future skyline captured in new visualisations
This series of images by architectural rendering studio Hayes Davidson envisages how London's skyline might look in 20 years time. More
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Hyper-realistic renderings of a proposed cafe in Ukraine
These hyper-realistic renderings by designer Michael Samoriz depict a cafe proposed for Ukraine with wooden beams criss-crossing over its ceiling. More
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"No-one has realised" that most homeware catalogue images are renderings
News: the images in most kitchen, bathroom and bedroom catalogues are computer-generated but "no-one has realised", according to a leading CGI artist (+ slideshow). More
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Jørn Utzon's unbuilt Schauspielhaus digitally resurrected by Virtual Design Unit
News: Swiss studio Virtual Design Unit has created a computer model of an unbuilt Zurich theatre designed by Jørn Utzon in 1964, to show that the building "could be built now" (+ slideshow + interview). More
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Scandinavian Shades of White photo-realistic images by Milan Stevanović
Young Serbian architect and 3D artist Milan Stevanović created these convincingly photo-realistic renderings of an imaginary Scandinavian interior furnished with favourite design pieces he found on the internet. More
