The Peninsula Point Concept project is a site design exercise for Hornblower Niagara Cruises who will be the operator of Maid of the Mist Cruises at Niagara Falls for the next 15-20 years. The client wanted some ideas about re-purposing the unused "peninsula" to have outdoor programs and activities in order to provide year-round amenities for visitors and nearby residents.…

An architecture class that I taught this fall just finished their final project which focused on sketching, modeling in Sketch Up, Photoshop, and InDesign. This process is an exact mapping of how I and many design professionals utilize sketching, drawing, physical and digital modeling in our design efforts. The project highlighted here is a compact little coffee…

Career and bright careers are the will and wish of every educated person. Everyone makes efforts for that but only a few of them are able to achieve their target. What is the main career secrets required for success and how people represent themselves in front of career employees is the topic of discussion of this post? How to write the perfect essay about yourself? As we know that with the demand for careers or…

I've been receiving a number of questions on how to change Google Earth views into evening views, especially when the site is in another location and you cannot be there to take an evening shot! This blog highlights converting a daytime photo into an evening setting in order to convey specialized lighting for streetscapes and entries. I've consolidated and…

This blog outlines the process of a project I just completed for a series of views that utilized a Rhino (3-D modeling tool), hand drawing, and Photoshop. The key challenge of this effort was showing enough detail on the building, but focusing on the site and landscape features. The fastest way to generate massing and facade ideas was sketching them out…

I have always been curious about how other select their graphite hardness and diameter. For me, a wide, soft lead works best for my heavy hand. I find that i'm able to draw light strokes when rocking my wrist back and using the sharpest point of the lead. I am a mechanical pencil user, so maybe that is weighing against me. I enjoy using a soft lead because it allows me to derive a wide variety of tones from just one pencil. Whether I am lightly whisking my hand around the page or…

The article tells about the architectural rendering of modern architecture

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The Badaling Great Wall, located in Yanqing County of Beijing City Guan mountain road north. Is an important part of the great defense project in the Great Wall ancient China, is a mountain in the Great Wall. The Badaling Great Wall is an important outpost of Juyongguan, called "the risk of not in Juyong Guan and in Badaling".



The Badaling section of the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty is called "Guan Yu's", one of the eight Guan Ming Dynasty pass. Badaling Great Wall is the Ming Great…

Hakka is also called soil around the floor, is a Hakka traditional residence. Mainly distributed in Guangdong, north, Dongjiang River and ring is located in the Pearl River Estuary of Shenzhen, Hong Kong and other places, its connotation is rich, the form is colorful, is a precious cultural heritage of Han building.

   Soil around the floor of choose the beautiful scenery of the place construction, "Luo Cengya to households in the column mirror LAN at the window", construction,…

In ancient times, the construction technology and social division of labor is relatively simple, architectural design and building construction and no clear boundaries, the construction of the organizers and the conductor is often the designer. In Europe, the stone as the main building material. The two usually by heads of the Mason bear; in China, due mainly to the wooden structure of building, the two usually by heads of the carpenter's bear. They according to the requirements of the…

Architectural drawing is for architectural design services, therefore, in different stages of architectural design, to draw the design of different content. In the architectural design of the scheme design stage and the preliminary design stage, draw the preliminary design plan, in the technical design stage to draw the technical design plan, in the construction drawing design stage.…

This blog outlines the steps of inserting a newly built or existing building into your illustrative site plan. On occasion, this is an effective tool to quickly add any project buildings or contextual elements into your project work instead of relying on complex extractions of Revit/Sketch Up model plan views. …

This month's blog entry highlights the design process for a outdoor courtyard programming exercise for a large Southern California Office Campus. With only a week to create concepts and no digital files (CAD bases) to use, I had to use beautifully hand-drawn as-built drawings for my base drawing. The materials and programs used for this process were ink pens, color pencils, perspective charts, and Adobe Photoshop and InDesign.…

Beautiful videos of this artist renderings with ballpoint pen, pencil and marker: http://hypebeast.com/tags/shohei

I wanted to share a link to another blog that echoes the main thing Mike has taught us. It instantly reminded me of my experience in the May 2005 Workshop where during one of the critiques, Mike observed that I was a "very careful" drawer. Even after I had already spilled coffee on the drawing, I still didn't loosen up - it was already 'ruined,' so why not just say 'what the hell' and have fun with it?

Don Miller is the author of Blue Like Jazz and posts at his blog,…

This blog highlights the design drawing process for a mixed-use residential project here in Northern California. I am constantly exploring the fine line between hand and digital tools in my project work, especially on projects where deadlines are short and expectations of graphic style (in this case, for a presentation to City Council) are constantly moving... even…

They are unknown, but their works of art are seen by hundreds of millions of people across the globe. They were art nerds in school - teased by peers or called to the principal's office for doodling in class - but are now working at one of the world's most important…