photorendering can be the designer's worst enemy. building clients lock onto things in a photorendered image of a concept that may be nothing more than an abstraction in the designer's mind - a calculus of the possible.

 here's a great image that conveys what it needs to and will allow this designer the freedom to further refine the project as he goes.

 brice davidson at www.miarch.com

who says BIM can't keep up with the avant-garde designer. i like the solution roberto corona came up with to use u-channel glass curtain walls in a building envelope. archicad's curtain wall tool sould really be called the building envelope tool.

a great example of this system in use is steven holl's nelson-atkins museum in kansas city