The Mothership Has Landed

Surely in house could not cope with the amount of visuals requested by the design teams so there's external companies needed. 2-3 of them were involved in the past few years in the making of these images. Most of the visuals has been done in hurry indeed but paid close attention for high quality standards. Currently freelancers needed here at F+P for cooperation in similar projects in the future so feel free to get in touch!

I'm not surprised they chose this building shape, it looks like a perfect building to gain as much solar energy as possible, 360 degrees of solar gain on the roof. I am pretty sure, one of the main design decisions was based on sustainability. The renderings look like they were done overnight by inhouse team that had to wait for the designers to finish the final design decisions for phase 1 conceptual drawings. I am sure that the next phase of renderings will be outsourced to some famous viz firm.

Well it's just a saucer, maybe the exterior is not all that important for the concept rather than function, and probably just like the New World Symphony building in Miami Beach's Art Deco district by Frank Gehry is not that attractive on the outside but all the Gehry is happening on the inside because of the Art Deco perseverance crap. By the way I've seen far better renders on evermotion. Not impressed at all.

The visuals are very, very well done. A cross between art and realism. Each image leads the viewer, plus they have a very warm and soft color pallette which gives it a nice soft mood.

Well done.

The design is not that spectacular (then they would have had ask another studio to do it. It really is a shame that they only published exterior renderings. What does this thing look like on the inside? And also, as Ronan rightfully said, why no images from inside the circle?

I happen to really like the renderings! They have character and are nicely composed and they demonstrate the feel of the project very well. It's that 2.5D style, or "90% Photoshop" which can look very nice while keeping things quick. I wouldn't be surprised if the 3d artist(s) was/were under a very tight timeline; even big firms don't have all the time in the world.

The design works for what it is and it doesn't try to be something it's not, or outshine its purpose, much like many other Foster projects. It's also in keeping with Apple's simplicity and elegance, I suppose.

PRESENTATION - 10

ARCHITECTURE - 0

I just saw the post in archdaily.I was interested in it.the visualization is nice but the shape is too simple.it surely applies to the function the y needed for the project.actually both shape & plan are important for each project to work on

..looks like pentagon with meshsmooth applied..;)

Doesn't that look like the iPhone and iPad home button from above? Maybe they should consider adding a rectangle in the middle so it would be more clear :)

An interesting shape but too flat for my tastes, I would prefer some undulating curves creating more stories in some areas. Renders are okay....

Great Post! I was looking for the render maker... Who is it?

I find it odd that no images were made to show how this design looks from inside the circle... That would be more interesting to the people at Apple I guess. Selling it to Cupertino you only need to show it outside ;)