The Chaos Group, makers of the popular V-Ray Next rendering software, have released a new architectural visualization reel, and the work is quite stunning.
Chaos Group ArchViz Reel
The reel features beautiful work from 16 of the top archviz studios in the world. These studios include Boston/Cambridge’s world-renowned Neoscape and Los Angeles-based Kilograph—both studios Architosh has written about in the past—plus DBOX, Brick, The Boundary, Factory Fifteen, Beauty & the Bit, TiltPixel, Vividus, Squint/Opera, Uniform, Binyan, Blkhaus, Polymachine, Steelblue, and VStudios.
01 – Peninsula Place by Santiago Calatrava, visualized by Uniform. This is shown in the Chaos Group reel.
Prominent projects in the new Chaos Group reel include Santiago Calatrava’s first project in the UK—Peninsula Place—rendered by Liverpool-based archviz company Uniform.
The reel also showcases the Renzo Piano-designed oasis in Miami and the award-winning film by DBOX featuring an urban safari for the 200 East 59th in NYC, and it also showcases the massive Neoscape project for Bai Da Tou which you can see here and in the images below.
Here is the new reel below. Further image stills continue after.
Chaos Group 2019 ArchViz Reel (all rights reserved)
Looking At Some Projects In Detail
One of the more massive and amazing archviz projects ever done is Neoscape’s work for the enormous Ba Dai Tou project by architects John Portman & Associates. We have written about this project before in 2018 when news came out about the incredible visualization tour de force. (see: Architosh: “Neoscape Visualizes Revitalized Shanghai Waterfront in Futuristic 4K Video,” 3 Jan 2018). Our article covers all the nitty gritty details of the endeavor. The video for it can be seen here.
02 – Images from the visualization movie of the Ba Dai Tou project.
The John Portman-designed project is convincingly told through the 4K lens of an 8-minute long visualization masterpiece. (02 – 03).
03 – Another stunning view from inside the visualized project of Bai Da Tou by John Portman & Associates, visualized by Neoscape.
Other projects from inside the new Chaos Group ArchViz Reel include projects by MAD, Renzo Piano and Dalian Wanda Group, and a fun project by DBOX.
04 – A visualized project by TiltPixel for the project Harbin Center, which was rendered in V-Ray and modeled in FormZ.
The Harbin Cultural Center by MAD architects was a competition-winning project. (see 04 above). The finished building is remarkably identical to the rendering you see above. The building is an opera house and it is worth checking out the project on the architect’s website.
next page: more visualizations from the 2019 Chaos Group ArchViz Reel
A social media campaign led the way to the creative urban safari visualization project by DBOX. The visualization work was for promoting the new building at 200 East 59th, NYC.
The idea of spaciousness in the development and within NYC, in general, is portrayed by the fact that spaces can hold elephants, for example, like a baby elephant in the bathtub. The film is definitely worth a watch—one of the more delightful viz films we have ever seen.
05 – DBOX won an award for their creative and beautifully executed urban safari film.
DBOX is a multinational, multi-discipline studio agency with offices in London, Miami, New York, and Los Angeles. Their work is quite stunning—a big recommend to readers to check them out.
06 – This rendering by Binyan is for the Dalian Wanda Group.
The image above is from the archviz studio Binyan, which is largely Australia-based with offices in Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney, along with a New York City studio.
The firm seems to be working for marquee architect firms like Snøhetta, David Adjaya Associates, and Richard Meier & Partners, among others. In fact, the Richard Meier project they rendered is 685 First Avenue, NYC, and can be found here. Unlike a typical Meier project, the project isn’t all white but all black. (worth a look).
The final image below is from The Boundary, a London studio doing some amazing work for some of the biggest names in the architectural industry—including Richard Rogers, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Herzog & de Meuron, among others.
07 – The Boundary rendered this stunning image for a project in Miami.
This image above is 86 Park, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and is a residential development on Miami’s North Beach. The Boundary’s project page devoted to this shows some stunning visuals and animation fly-bys. This is for high-end living and the materials are really gorgeous inside these units. Take a look.