Lakeshore Tower — primary exterior render
Arch Viz · Interior Rendering · Interactive

Lakeshore Tower

Lakeshore Tower is a 64-storey residential development on Chicago's lakefront corridor. Our brief was to position the building for both municipal review and pre-sale marketing — two audiences with very different framings of the same imagery.

We delivered a hero still package for the design jury, a 90-second animation for the launch event, and a fully interactive sales configurator that allowed prospective buyers to walk a furnished unit, change finishes, and capture stills.

Client
Kowalski Architects · Chicago
Discipline
Architectural Visualization
Year
2025
Delivery
40 hero stills · 1 launch reel · 1 configurator
The Approach

Two audiences, one source of truth.

We built the entire tower and surrounding context in Houdini, with calibrated atmospherics tuned to the specific light conditions of Chicago's lakefront. The same scene file powered both the architectural review package and the marketing configurator — ensuring absolute consistency between the two.

The configurator was built in Unreal Engine, with lightmap baking that allowed prospective buyers to walk the unit in real-time at 4K. Finish swaps were instant; sales staff could run through ten variants in a single showing.

The final stills were rendered at 12K for print and downsampled for digital. Every frame was calibrated against the actual site photography from the existing lakefront to ensure contextual accuracy.

Selected Frames

From the final delivery

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