3D architectural rendering across the United States

Every city builds differently.

The zoning code, the building stock and even the light change between these cities — and imagery that ignores that is obvious to anyone who works there. Here’s what we account for in each.

Florida

Pre-construction condo towers in Miami, island estates that go before the Palm Beach Architectural Commission, Gulf-front homes and canal lots in Naples, resort and master-planned work around Orlando, and Tampa’s waterfront towers and bungalow streets.

Miami

A pre-construction sales market where imagery does more of the selling than almost anywhere else in the country.

From $1,200 per image

3D interior rendering of a covered outdoor kitchen and dining area with a timber feature wall and woven lounge chairs

Palm Beach

An island of estates where every visible change goes before an architectural commission — and the commission knows exactly what it is looking at.

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3D exterior rendering of a two-story home with concrete-look panels, a skillion roof, trailing planters and palms over a stepping-stone garden path

Naples

Gulf-front estates, Old Naples cottages and canal-side homes built for the sunset — in a city with a design board that reads every elevation.

From $1,200 per image

3D interior rendering of a white kitchen with a long marble island, woven stools and glass lantern pendants, the water visible past the dining area

Orlando

A hospitality and master-planned market, where the imagery sells an experience rather than a building.

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3D exterior rendering of a long single-story home with pale clapboard walls, a dark tiled hip roof, a charcoal double garage and a wide front lawn edged with rock-garden beds

Tampa

A waterfront boomtown of condo towers, bungalow streets and storm-ready design.

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3D exterior rendering of the rear of a white-clad two-story home with an arched opening over a dining terrace and pool

California

Hillside homes and indoor–outdoor living in Los Angeles, Victorian and Edwardian streets in San Francisco, canyon lots and coastal light in San Diego, beach houses in Malibu, and Santa Barbara, which has reviewed architecture since 1925.

Los Angeles

Indoor–outdoor living, hillside sites, and a light quality people will notice if you get it wrong.

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3D exterior rendering of a long single-story home with skillion roofs, gray panel cladding and a stacked-stone wall, behind a curved gravel path through a rock-and-shrub garden under a deep blue sky

San Francisco

One of the most scrutinized planning processes in the country, in a city where every neighbor has an opinion and a viewpoint.

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3D exterior rendering of a stepped contemporary home with dark cladding, planted terraces and a slatted gate

San Diego

Coastal light, canyon lots and a city building up around its trolley lines.

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3D interior rendering of an open living and dining room looking out to a garden through tall sliding doors

Malibu

Beach houses, canyon homes and Point Dume estates — in a coastal city that reviews a house by its height, its bulk and the views around it.

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3D exterior rendering of a three-level coastal home with curved white balconies, timber screens and a garden stair

Santa Barbara

Red tile, white plaster and Montecito estates — in a city that has reviewed architecture since 1925.

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3D exterior rendering of a two-story home with a white gabled upper floor and stone feature panel over a curved rendered ground floor with a breeze-block screen, framed by palms and a cactus garden

Texas

Austin, where single-family lots can now take up to three homes; Dallas, where ForwardDallas 2.0, adopted on September 25, 2024, now sets the test for zoning cases; and Houston, the largest city in the country without zoning.

Austin

Fast growth, generous sites, and clients who have seen enough generic imagery to be tired of it.

From $1,200 per image

3D exterior rendering of a wide single-story white home with gabled wings, a whitewashed stone chimney, a long garage wing and a broad lawn in front

Dallas

One of the busiest development markets in the country, where the imagery has to keep pace with the capital.

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3D exterior rendering of a two-story home with pale blue clapboard over a brick ground floor and a charcoal double garage door

Houston

The largest city in the country without zoning, where what gets built is shaped by deed restrictions, the market and the water.

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3D exterior rendering of a low pavilion home with dark cladding, stone piers and timber fins across a wide lawn

Colorado

Aspen, where city and county review examines mass and scale closely; Vail, whose design review board reads every roofline, balcony and stone base; and Denver, where accessory dwelling units are now allowed in every residential area.

Aspen

Some of the most expensive residential real estate in the United States, and the least forgiving of imagery that has not understood the site.

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3D exterior rendering of a long dark pavilion home on acreage with an infinity-edge pool and wooded hills behind

Vail

A Tyrolean-style alpine village where a design review board reads every roofline, balcony and stone base.

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3D exterior rendering of a single-story home with white clapboard gables, gray brick, a stone chimney, a gabled entry porch and a charcoal double garage behind a stepping-stone path

Denver

A growth market with the mountains as its backdrop, where the view to the west is part of what every project sells.

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3D exterior rendering of a two-story white board-and-batten farmhouse with black windows, a stone entry and white hydrangeas under a blue sky

New York

New York City, where the citywide City of Yes for Housing Opportunity amendment has changed what can be built, and the Hamptons on Long Island’s East End, where each village and town runs its own review.

New York

Where the context around the building matters at least as much as the building.

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3D exterior rendering of a white clapboard two-story home with a dark hip roof, a timber-post entry portico, a cross-braced garage door and a planted stepping-stone path

The Hamptons

Shingle-style estates, modern barns and beach houses behind privet hedges — in villages whose review boards have long memories.

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3D exterior rendering of a white clapboard two-story home with arched openings and a pool terrace

Arizona

Desert light in Phoenix and Scottsdale, casitas and middle housing under Arizona’s 2024 housing laws, and Scottsdale’s Environmentally Sensitive Lands rules, which keep part of every property in the overlay as natural desert.

Phoenix

Desert light, master-planned growth and luxury hillside homes — a market where the sun is the hardest thing to render well.

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3D interior rendering of an open-plan dining and living room with an oak table, a white sofa and pendant lights over the kitchen island

Scottsdale

Desert contemporary homes, resorts and a revived Old Town — where a house is judged by how lightly it sits on the Sonoran landscape.

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3D streetscape rendering of a two-story stone-clad duplex with timber garage doors, glass balconies, trailing planters and paved front paths

Other states and Washington, DC

Each is our only city page in its state, or in the District, and covers projects across the wider area as well as in the city itself.

Seattle

Overcast is the default here, and rendering it as sunshine is the fastest way to lose a local architect.

From $1,200 per image

3D interior rendering of a double-height living room open to the water, with a fireplace and sculptural pendant

Park City

A silver-mining town turned ski capital, where Old Town’s miners’ houses and Deer Valley’s mountain homes are reviewed very differently.

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3D exterior rendering of a two-story modern farmhouse with black gable framing and a stone chimney

Jackson Hole

A valley of ranches and mountain homes beneath the Tetons, where the land, the wildlife and the view are all part of the approval.

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3D exterior rendering of a two-story home with dark cladding, a stacked-stone pier, white board-and-batten panels and a timber front door

Chicago

An architecture city first, where a building will be judged by people who know exactly what good looks like.

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3D exterior rendering of a two-story rendered home with dark wood siding around the upper windows and the garage, lit at dusk

Las Vegas

Desert custom homes, high-rise residences and resort-scale projects — in a valley where expectations for spectacle are set by the Strip.

From $1,200 per image

3D exterior rendering of a two-story home with a stacked-stone wing, dark vertical battens, a timber garage door and a double-height glazed window

Atlanta

A city in a forest, where the tree canopy frames every street and every neighborhood weighs in on what gets built.

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3D exterior rendering of a two-story Hamptons-style home in white clapboard over pale brick, with a columned front porch, a sage-green front door and lit windows at dusk

Boston

Brick, brownstone and labs — a city where historic commissions read the details and the newest buildings are laboratories.

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3D streetscape rendering of a two-story townhouses in red brick, gray render and dark vertical cladding, with lit windows at dusk

Philadelphia

Rowhouses, a historic core and a city investing $2 billion in housing — where every new building is read against three centuries of brick.

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3D streetscape rendering of a corner view of two-story townhouses with balconies, white pergola hoods, dark brick bases and purple-leaf street trees, with people walking on the sidewalk

Washington, DC

A city of height limits, historic districts and federal review, where the skyline is a policy and every facade is read in context.

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3D exterior rendering of a two-story home in textured gray render with two steep gables, black grid windows lit from inside, wall lanterns and a timber garage door at dusk

Charlotte

A fast-growing banking city whose tree-lined neighborhoods are learning to take duplexes and triplexes.

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3D exterior rendering of a two-story home with red-brick piers, a band of dark wood slats over a timber double front door, a charcoal double garage and lit windows at dusk

Nashville

Towers in The Gulch, infill across East Nashville, and backyard cottages almost everywhere inside the old city.

From $1,200 per image

3D exterior rendering of a two-story white board-and-batten farmhouse with black windows and a stone entry, lit by a low golden sun

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