Luxury Parisian building facade with classical architecture, ornate mansard roof, and blurred vehicles passing in foreground under blue sky.

Exterior · London, UK

Grosvenor Place, Belgravia: 8 views built from survey

Made for Savills over a laser scan of the existing facade, so every cornice matches the building people walk past.

Overview

The Brief

The starting point was survey rather than drawings. The existing fabric was captured with laser scanning and Matterport, and the model checked against it cornice by cornice. Then the slow part: stone that has weathered, reflections that behave, and the particular afternoon light this street gets. Eight views out of 3ds Max and V-Ray, the architectural visualization a listed facade asks for.

Software

3ds Max, V-Ray, Matterport, Photoshop

Year

2021

Timeline

30 days

Busy London street intersection with Victorian buildings, red buses, yellow taxi, pedestrians, and green trees under blue sky with white clouds.

Street scene with scooters and motorcycles parked in front of ornate Victorian building in London with pedestrians and traffic.

A bustling London street scene with classical architecture, red double-decker buses, black taxis, pedestrians, and tree-lined pavements under a blue sky.

A busy London street scene with Victorian buildings, red double-decker buses, black taxis, and pedestrians on a sunny day with white clouds.

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The craft

Why heritage runs slower than new-build

A new building only has to be plausible. This one had to be recognisable, so eight views took 30 days, about twice the cadence of a new-build set, and the hours went into weathering and the fall of light rather than into geometry. We staged the street lived-in as well, the black cab, the bus, a car at the kerb: an empty plate reads as CGI however good the facade is.

Renders Delivered

Days Turnaround

Revision Rounds

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