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3D printing transforms architectural model making with speed and precision

Architectural firms are increasingly adopting 3D printing to produce scale models faster, with greater precision, and at lower cost than traditional handcrafting. Technologies like SLA, FDM, SLS, and ...
WBEZ

Model shop that provided the first draft of many great Chicago buildings closes

For 35 years, Columbian Model & Exhibit Works has given the city glimpses of the future. The River West company designed and built architectural models for developers and architects that provided an ...
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Kwong Von Glinow integrates model making into its design process

Kwong Von Glinow isn’t afraid to uplift the mundane. Based in Chicago, the studio finds inspiration and freedom in historic templates of development. AN’s Executive Editor Jack Murphy spoke with ...
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A detailed look at New York’s community of independent and in-house model makers

A display wall at Radii in Hoboken, New Jersey, shows the range of models built by the shop since it opened in 2000. (Christopher Payne/Esto) Amid all of the ways to make an architectural model ...
Oregon Business

3D Experience: Exhibit Showcases Architectural Models of Portland’s Past, Present and Future

A single architectural model can represent hundreds of hours of work and hard-won solutions to complex design problems. It’s one reason organizers say an exhibit of architectural models has struck a ...
PCQuest

When AI starts making business decisions

Enterprises used data to understand what happened. Now systems are being built to decide what should happen next. But before ...