Norsk Skogfinsk Museum by Aesthetica Studio

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The project looked very charming from the very beginning: a clean and simple museum deeply rooted in the beautiful context of a Norwegian Forest 100 km North-East from Oslo. The little town community felt this project very much so the images were absolutely crucial to show how the people could use their own new museum. Our friends LLJ Architects designed a great building and won the competition, so we look forward to seeing it built soon!
Fun fact: the wooden columns around the building represent the transition between natural and artificial space and each single column will be provided by many different local companies.

Shanghai Pudong Stadium by Beauty and The Bit

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B&TB + Schmidt Hammer Lassen: Shanghai Pudong Stadium.
Illustrating Stadiums is not an easy task. At least if you want to avoid the overused corner money shot with thousands of fans with confetti, streamers, fireworks and flying unicorns. We tried to stay far from the cheesy side of life with and instead portraying the (not so) mediatic face of this awesome design by our friends at Schmidt Hammer Lassen. We really appreciate they supported our art direction on this from the very beginning.
2nd prize by the way…

Artilleriet Tribute by Fernando Villalobos

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This personal project was made as a new challenge for me, I really love the dark spaces like this one, only supported by accent lights but in essence are completely painted by natural light.
I wanted to try new moods with Fstorm as my artistic render engine, it works really good with this kind of spaces, with low light, sharp shadows drawed in walls, tables, floor, accessories, blueish and cold moods, dramatic scenes, etc.
I only used a simple cloudy hdri map for lighting, was enough for nice shadows and volumetric feeling.