Architectural Visualisation for European Studios
Photorealistic images and animation for European architecture studios and developers, produced remotely from your drawings. Renders from $199 per image.
Who we work with in Europe
European practice is shaped by competitions, public clients and projects that travel across borders. We work with architecture studios, developers, interior designers and hospitality groups who need images of a design before it is built.
Typical briefs include competition boards, client presentations, marketing sets for a residential or mixed-use scheme, interiors for a hotel or showroom, and aerial views of a site or masterplan. The engagement is remote and in English: you send drawings and a brief, we send drafts, and everything is handled by email, shared files and short calls.
Competition entries and tight deadlines
Architectural competitions are won on a handful of images read in a few minutes by a jury. The brief usually fixes the sheet format, the number of boards, an anonymity rule and a submission deadline that cannot move. A competition image needs a clear idea, a strong single view and a restrained atmosphere that lets the design speak for itself.
If you are entering one, send the competition programme with the brief. We will ask which views the jury needs to see, whether images must carry no names or logos, and whether the sheet layout expects wide panoramic crops or square tiles. Competition work is best planned backwards from the submission date, so share that date in your first message and we will confirm a schedule in the quote.
Public and institutional clients, such as municipalities, housing associations and cultural bodies, often ask for a calmer image language than a developer would. Neutral light, visible users and a believable season are better received than glossy dusk shots.
Marketing in several languages
A scheme in the Netherlands, a hotel in Spain and a residential block in Germany may all be sold to international buyers in more than one language. We communicate in English. Any text that appears inside an image, such as signage, window graphics, menu boards or sales-office wall text, is supplied by you in the language you need, so the same view can be issued once in German, once in French and once in English without being re-rendered from scratch.
Build the set around that reuse. Ask for a clean version without text and a localised version for each market, and keep one master camera so every language carries identical imagery.
- Residential marketing: a lifestyle exterior, a living-space interior and a floor plan with room names in the local language.
- Hospitality: guest-room and lobby interiors, with terrace views that reflect the local landscape.
- Mixed-use and commercial: a street-level view of ground-floor frontages with shopfront text supplied by the tenant.
Metric drawings and local conventions
- Drawings and models: DWG, RVT, SKP and Rhino files are all workable, as are PDF plans and elevations. IFC exports and files from other design tools can be used where the geometry is clean, which we confirm at the quote stage. With 2D drawings only, we can build the 3D model in-house.
- Units: European drawings are metric, usually in metres and centimetres with plans at 1:50, 1:100 or 1:200. We work in the units as drawn. Tell us if a set mixes metric and imperial.
- Areas and labels: floor plan graphics can show room areas in square metres, with decimal commas if your market writes them that way.
- Context: local material makes an exterior believable. Tell us about clay brick, lime render, zinc roofing, timber cladding, slate or terracotta tile, and send site photographs of the street.
- Climate and light: a northern coastal site and a Mediterranean hillside call for very different skies and planting, so name the region and the season you want to show.
Residential and hospitality schemes across borders
Developers working in several countries often reuse one design language and adapt it locally. We can set up a master model for a housing type and then re-skin it for each site, swapping facade material, roof form, planting and street furniture so a scheme in Lisbon does not look like one in Hamburg. A hotel group can do the same with a room type and a lobby, adjusting the view from the terrace and the local finishes.
Heritage and renovation work is common in European towns, and a photomontage that sets a new insertion beside historic fabric is often the clearest way to show a jury or a conservation officer what changes and what stays.
Working across European time zones
Our working hours overlap with UK and European mornings, so feedback does not wait on a time difference. At the start we agree a call window, a single point of contact and where markups will be kept. Quotes confirm scope, price in US dollars and the schedule before work begins. Two revision rounds are included and finals arrive as JPEG or TIFF, with PNG and layered files on request.
Pricing in dollars
Renders from $199 per image, 3D floor plans from $149, photomontage from $399 per image or $750 for a set of 3, animation from $2,600 (60-second walkthrough) and VR from $3,000. Start with a single image, or send your drawings for a quote. A standard still usually takes 3 to 5 business days after complete drawings, and competition or multi-view packages are scheduled in the quote. Prices are in US dollars, and the figure for your project depends on views, complexity and source files.
Services and pricing
Examples of our work
Studio experience covers 900+ projects. These case studies show how a project runs from drawings to final images:
Recent delivered projects
Frequently asked questions
Do you have an office in Europe?
No. We work remotely with European studios by email, shared files and calls. Our working hours overlap with UK and European mornings.
Do you work in metric units?
Yes. European sets in metres and centimetres are modelled as drawn, and room areas can be labelled in square metres. If a set mixes units, flag it in the brief.
Which languages do you work in?
We communicate in English. Any text inside an image should be supplied by you in the language you need.
How are prices quoted?
In US dollars. Renders start from $199 per image, and the quote for your project depends on views, complexity and source files.
What do I need to send?
Plans, elevations and sections, or a 3D model including IFC exports, the views you want, a materials list, site photographs and, for a competition, the programme and sheet format.
