Gallery: The World’s Coolest Buildings Begin as the World’s Coolest Models
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Architectural models, the small-scale versions of buildings, are an important step in the design process.
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Here you see the Art Gallery of Alberta by Scott Harrington.
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Building a model is another form of architecture, but on a smaller scale.
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Every model involves some degree of visual trickery, to convince you that you’re looking at a perfectly shrunken replica of a full-sized building.
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Every model builder uses techniques to achieve certain visual attributes. The screen on Abu Dhabi's parliament building was created through photochemical etching.
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A detailed look at the etching. The main structure is 3-D printed.
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From above.
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Harrington designed a miniature replica mixed-use project in Moscow.
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If you don't look too closely, you could mistake the image for a photograph of the actual building.
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An interior sculpture made at scale.
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Michael Kennedy constructed a model for the entirety of Abu Dhabi's Sadyiatt Island.
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Most of the time a model is the first time a building is realized in 3-D.
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Part of a model's job is to view the building in its surrounding context.
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