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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
The New York Times

The Artists Remaking Everyday Buildings in Dollhouse Scale

Miniaturists are memorializing the architecture of quickly changing cities with meticulous renderings of corner stores, restaurants and even dumpsters. From left: a Brooklyn dumpster (five inches tall ...
Chicago Sun-Times

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

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