The Making of NYC Super Highrise

Making Of

By Jeff MottleAugust 02, 2012

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Andrew Walker

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Simple and effective tutorial. wouldnt like to look over the edge of those buildings!

Ron Dicker

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I don't know what I missed; but, good find Jeff. It's nice to see how to quickly produce a vignette with minimal steps.

Jeff Mottle

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Guys enough! I don't post these articles so you can't act like 3 year olds. You can have a professional discussion about the work without resorting to your bickering. If this continues, I'll delete all these comments and your accounts.

Corey Beaulieu

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Wait. Guys. Wasn't this a how-to post about Photoshop?

Hao La

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Let's stop all the trash talking at this point! There's nothing to fight about, we're all adult in a professional community here.

Jeff Mottle

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Jeff, thank you for the tips: you should have participated in "NY city vision" competition with this!

I love this image too. As unrealistic as it is, it's provoking, as the comments have demonstrated. Just to clarify though this image was done by Christopher Malheiros (link at the top of the article). I just asked him to make it for the site.

Corey Beaulieu

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Something about this project reminds me of the 1929 images of Zeppelins Docking at the Empire State Building when they were trying to rationalize the addition of the tower on top. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/realestate/26scapes.html Or perhaps more like Rem Koolhaas' 1972 Thesis about the city. http://bouncingballball.blogspot.com/2010/04/unwall-posted-by-boiteaoutils.html

Hao La

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Horrible idea/design but interesting image!

Matthew Valero

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Said it before and I will say it again. Photoshop is the best rendering engine!

baddof .

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Ihab, even though I agree it is not possible to dissociate the project of architecture and its image, from a strictly technical point of view you are wrong: try to look at the production of modernism or at the way Zumthor presents his own projects and you will (almost) never find that what predominates is the necessity to "render" the project. It is all about floor plans, sections, axonometric projections and sketchy views. In that sense, Jeff is completely right. Jeff, thank you for the tips: you should have participated in "NY city vision" competition with this! cheers