Low light levels make night renderings a challenging yet rewarding subject. After sunset, the everyday world is magically transformed.

Tilt-shift miniature style renderings are scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. Here is a 3-Story apartment building that I used this technique on, simply for fun, but the client loved it.

The architect on this job understands that some projects will never get built simply because the decision makers cannot understand the designer’s vision. I was commonsense to illustrate this 3-story apartment complex in Wisconsin, to be used at a city ordnance meeting.

A commercial real estate broker in NY who also represents several office buildings here in Manhattan, purchased a very cool office building at 100-104 fifth Avenue (union square – www.100-104fifth.com). The developer has a large piece of space coming available with a great roof deck, he wanted to create a cool rendering for the roof deck space.

The Appleton Yacht Club is located on the scenic Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin. I was commissioned to illustrated the proposed renovation, to be used for fundraising.

Wildcliff, designed by noted Architect Alan Alexander Jackson Davis, was built in New Rochelle, New York, in 1852 as a private residence with panoramic views of Long Island Sound. The abandoned shell of the historic building is being redesigned by Fivecat Studio Architecture as a sustainable nursery school and community meeting place.

The Appleton Yacht Club continues fundraising, using these illustrations, for the project but has received more than $100,000 in pledges and donations so far.

The architect needed to communicate his interior design ideas visually to evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of planned premises, the larger details and finer points of an the interior: furniture arrangement, color scheme and decor, and sources of illumination.