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The Tangram 3DS philosophy . . . making sure all the pieces fit
With skill and imagination, the pieces of a tangram puzzle can be arranged and rearranged to form hundreds of shapes. The key to the solution lies in the ability to visualize a final result by effectively identifying and positioning the right pieces.

Tangram 3DS . . . we change to fit your needs.
In much the same way, Tangram 3DS offers customized solutions to your visualization and multimedia design needs. Whatever your company size, project requirements, or experience with 3d visualization products, Tangram 3DS can create an individualized and expandable visualization package  selected from a wide range of service options.

Visualize the future with Tangram 3DS LLC.
Tangram 3DS can help you determine how all the pieces fit together through close cooperation and in-depth, ongoing consultation. From individual designers,  AEC, real estate and development professionals, to large national and international companies, our clients rely on us to provide 3d solutions for their visualization needs. Take a look at our project pages to see what we’ve done for our clients and imagine what we could do for you.

 

Team

Our experience, your advantage.

The Tangram 3DS team is a group of motivated and experienced specialists. Each member of the team possesses a unique set of skills and a proven track record. Our team has made a name for itself both locally and internationally as a leading provider of 3d visualization and multimedia products to a wide range of clients. Put our team’s formidable combination of skill, expertise, passion and team spirit to work for you.

Tangram 3DS is proudly affiliated with many professional organizations, including:

The Boston Society of Architects/AIA

The American Society of Architectural Illustrators

The New Hampshire Creative Club

Vismasters

CG Architect

Chaos Group  

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Microsoft

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Ocean Edge Ballroom Expansion

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Dubai Maritime City Tower

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The Towers at Longfellow

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"The Towers at Longfellow, owned and operated by Equity Residential, is just one of five distinctive building styles of urban living in Boston's historic West End.  Comprising of twin, 38-story high-rise residences, The Towers at Longfellow is in an ideal and unparalleled location - with breathtaking and unmatched panoramic views of the Boston Harbor, the Charles River and the Esplanade, Cambridge, Beacon Hill, and the Back Bay skyline.  A wide array of sophisticated and stylish apartment residences are available, including stunning studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units all with private balconies, as well as two-and three-bedroom penthouse units with multiple private balconies. Everything you could possibly want from city living is at The Towers at Longfellow, widely recognized as Boston's most unique and upscale high-rise apartment community."  For more information, please visit us at www.LiveBostonsWestEnd.com

Testimonial: 
Tangram 3DS has been an integral part of our marketing efforts.  Too many times clients have a problem envisioning the space they will live in, and Tangram's renderings have helped to bridge that gap.  We have found that for a fraction of the cost, that renderings capture the space sometimes better then an actual photograph.  Tangram has also been able to come up with creative solutions when we run into problems, and has been an invaluable vendor to us in every regard.  I highly recommend their services if you are looking to 'think outside of the box', and take your marketing efforts to the next level.

Stephanie Wild
Marketing Director
Equity Residential

 

 

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International UFO Museum & Research Center

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In 2007 Ahearn Schopfer & Associates was commissioned to design the new International UFO Museum & Research Center. The existing museum, located in downtown Roswell, New Mexico, purchased a large parcel of land to build this new state-of-the-art facility.
The two phase project will be a single level museum capable of future expansion.

For more information please visit the proejct website

 

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www.yachts.tangram3ds.com

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Berry Residence

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The construction site is located on a hillside near Vienna, Austria. Situated on the southern slope, the house will overlook Vienna. For this reason, the common living areas are located on the upper floor. Wonderful views of the city are provided through the generous use of glass and the construction of a large terrace. The various functional areas of the house are arranged in staggered levels with no loss of space or light. The bedrooms and baths are located on the entry level of the house. A large domed roof light over the stairs provides good lighting all the way down to the street level and opens up the entry area to the upper level.
The house was conceived as a passive solar house using the timber construction method and will be sided with light colored panels.
From the street-level carport, a service elevator will carry people and goods to the upper level.

Testimonial:
Our architectural office commissioned Tangram 3ds with the visualization and animation of a single family residence we had designed for an (Austrian) artist. The client wanted photo quality exterior and interior views as well as a 90-second walkthrough animation of the building.We got several estimates for the visualization and animation work. Tangram 3ds offered the best quality work for the price.Our work with Tangram 3ds proved to be extremely advantageous. Our expectations, which were high to begin with, were exceeded. Our client had a very precise design concept in mind, so good communication was of the utmost importance in turning this concept into reality. With the help of Tangram 3ds, we were able to provide our client with a photo realistic rendering of our design, including materials, color selections, lighting, vegetation, and surroundings, which gave the client a true impression of his future home.The architectural 3d animation or walkthrough was especially important to our client who is a film enthusiast. The ability to “walk through” his virtual home heightened his anticipation of the finished project while providing him with a powerful tool for marketing the house as a future location for filming commercials and movies.
As a result of our positive experience, we will continue to work with Tangram 3ds in the future. We believe that the marketing for future projects will be faster and more effective with the services provided by Tangram 3ds. Visualization products of this quality can boost sales even before construction completion.
Architect Johann Lettner
Vienna, Austria

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Hilton Garden Inn Freeport

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The Freeport Hilton Garden Inn is a 99-room, 4-story hotel located in the downtown Historic District.  This business class hotel has a restaurant and bar, an indoor swimming pool and spa, exercise room, convention and meeting facilities, and an outdoor patio/bar area.  Tangram was commissioned by the architects to do a series of renderings for the project approval process.

Client Testimonial
"The rendering was commissioned for use in securing land use board approvals, but the Owner ended up using it successfully and repeatedly for securing sales long before the property opened for business."
- Rolf Biggers, BMA Architectural Group, P.C. Details:

Portwalk

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West End Asteria

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Boston Museum

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The Boston Museum, located in the heart of downtown Boston adjacent to Faneuil Hall Marketplace, will bring the region's magnificent 400-year history into focus, inspiring local residents and visitors from across the globe to explore our rich heritage, historic sites and cultural attractions.
A 100,000 square-foot museum/marketplace concept is now in active development, with additional plans for a low-lying pedestrian bridge to serve as a gateway to the museum and a critical connector of park parcels along the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

For more information please visit the project website


Stefan, 
It’s been a pleasure to work with you and your team.  I appreciate your patience with us and the spirit and desire to achieve excellence.
The drawings look terrific and will be of significant assistance to the project, our client and ourselves.

Sincerely,
Peter Sollogub
Associate Principal
Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc.

Dear All,
The renderings look great – we are very happy with them! I will be sure to let you know how they go over, but our client was thrilled with the progress images last week. I imagine they will be even happier when they see these tomorrow AM.

Many thanks for all your hard work!
Aliki M. Hasiotis
Assoc. AIA
Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc.

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Bank of America Retail Prototypes

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Hilton Providence

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This project was a major renovation undertaken by the Procaccianti Group to remodel the existing Holiday Inn Downtown Providence into the new Hilton Providence Hotel.  On the heels of Tangram’s success with the Westin Providence renderings, TPG requested similar services for this project for city approval and marketing.

The new three story glass and metal structure attached to the Hilton will house the new Shula’s 347 restaurant -- a joint venture between The Procaccianti Group and Hall of Fame Football Coach and Restauranteur Don Shula. Details:

Sunlight Partners

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One Financial Center

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Al Bateen Tower, Jumeirah Beach Road, Dubai UAE

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The Al Bateen Tower at Jumeirah Beach is poised to propel the concept of living environments to a new horizon. Its design is born from the site itself, and the architecture can be considered an encounter with fluidity - a structure that reflects the flowing transition of forces from sand to sea. The building’s shape will constantly change as it is experienced from different vantage points, and as such, it represents not only the site’s dramatic transition from desert to sea, but also the dynamic transformations happening in the current and future Dubai.

The project will include a G-plus-50-story luxury apartment high-rise and a G-plus-30-story five-star hotel with an in-house business center, ballroom, restaurants, state-of-the-art health club, spa and beach club. Lush landscaping will define the site and will also be used to soften the internal edge of a garden wall that will surround and protect the grounds. The Al Bateen will offer both luxury residential apartments and 5-star hotel accommodations, designed within two separate and dynamically related towers. Together the two curved towers will form a building unique to all of Dubai, and their carefully-oriented views will offer residents and guests unrivaled vistas of the sea and the city. Residents and visitors will have not only spectacular views, they will have - as part of their own front foyer and front yard - uninterrupted access to business facilities, upscale restaurants and shops, luxury beach club amenities, elegantly landscaped terraces, swimming pools, sandy beaches, and the sea beyond.

From the lushly landscaped exterior to modern interior, the architecture will set a stage of quiet elegance through the use of clean, simple and dramatic forms. Sweeping canopies and carefully designed entries will transition residents and visitors into light-filled lobbies. On the floors above, as a resident or guest opens the heavy and secure door to their apartment, their focus will be swept away by a view that stretches to a distant horizon. Only after catching one’s breath, will one notice the sound and secure feeling that the unique residence offers with magnificent stone floors, rich wood cabinetry, doors and timber works, wall niches for the display of art, molded ceilings with integrated lights, and other elegant finishes.

Simplicity, elegance and quality: those are the words that will brand this project. It will be home and host to the best that Dubai has to offer, and will bring together an international community where locals can experience a freshness that lets them become foreigners, and foreigners will feel a welcoming luxury that lets them become locals.

Testimonial:

Tangram 3DS has been instrumental not only in providing the 3D renderings of the project but in helping us with developing the design by modeling the entire building and showing us all the different angels and details of the model. They were always very responsive and ended up delivering more products than initially discussed in the same amount of time. Like always, it was a pleasure working with them.

Mariana Vaida AIA
Project Manager
Architecture

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West End Vesta

Description: The West End Development

Equity Residential’s West End Development will bring new vitality and an expanded range of options for those who choose to make their home in Boston’s West End.  Designed by the widely recognized firm, Elkus/Manfredi Architects, the new development will consist of five new buildings, creating a campus setting on 5.25 acres.  The project will bring 310 new residential rental units – a mix of studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments, as well as townhouses – to the West End that will strengthen and enhance the residential character of this Boston neighborhood.  The project will also provide for a significantly larger and improved landscaped setting designed by the award-winning landscape architecture firm of Carol. R. Johnson Associates.  

To maximize the leasing velocity of the summer months, Tangram 3DS was employed to “create the reality of the finished buildings - inside and out” as a tool to help pre-lease apartment homes.  

Client Testimonials:

I would like to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude for a job well done. I can't tell you how pleased we are with your efforts. All of us are somewhat stunned with the clarity of the graphics and quality of work. My only hope is that the real product turns out as good as yours.  Again, thank you.

Rich Lucas
Regional Manager, Equity Residential

Stefan - you and your team have been truly amazing to work with.  You have helped to make our project a success, and we continue to receive rave reviews from all that see the still pictures and the animated video.  I smile each time someone asks “so how do you have these pictures if the building is not fully constructed yet?”    Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication.

Stephanie Wild
Marketing Director, Equity Residential
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US Marshals Museum

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In 2007, the United States Marshals Service announced plans to build a museum in Fort Smith, Arkansas to honor their 200-year history.  Situated on the bank of the Arkansas River, the museum faces the border of Oklahoma, which in the early 19th century divided the U.S. territories from the western frontier.  Today the project is a key element in Fort Smith’s plans to redevelop the riverfront as a center of culture and commerce.

The design team at Cambridge Seven Associates tapped Tangram 3DS to create a series of compelling renderings for design presentation and fundraising.  Both the museum’s contemporary form and panoramic setting were vital elements in capturing the drama and grandeur of the project.  Tangram worked closely with designers to develop their schematic model and drawings into a stylistic representation that bridged the gap between concept and reality.
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Brockton Power Plant

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Brockton Clean Energy is a state of the art 350  MW combined cycle power station.  Powered by natural gas, the facility will provide reliable and clean energy to the southeast Massachusetts region. 

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Tangram provided architectural renderings for the facility based on engineered structures that will serve as the power stations machinery, control and administrative buildings.   The result demonstrates the ability of Tangram to visualize an industrial facility in harmony with the local environment.

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Organic Nutrition

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Sheikh Zayed Road Tower

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Elkstone 21

Description: Twenty-one luxury condominiums in Mountain Village-Telluride, Colorado.

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Tangram has taken our architectural drawings and vision, transformed them into realistic and beautiful renderings. They have been professional and
executed on time. It was nice to work with such a talented group of individuals.

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Chestnut Hill Square

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Absentee Shawnee Little Axe Healthcare Facility

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Project Description
The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma recognized the need for expanded healthcare services for Native Americans in their area. This need was answered with the construction of a new 72,000 square foot state of the art outpatient healthcare clinic located in Little Axe, OK. Services include: Primary Care, Dental, Eye Care, Physical Therapy, Wellness, Audiology, Behavioral Health, Imaging, and Laboratory. This project is a joint venture between the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Indian Health Service.

Client Testimonial 
Using Tangram 3DS offers advantages to both the client and the project design team. Tangram animations and still shots provide true reflection of design efforts and identify problems within the project before they become an issue for the client.  Their production staff excels in creating computer models and renderings that accurately reflect the way the project will look when it is completed.

Breck Childers
Architect 

James R Childers Arcchitects           

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Towne Place Suites Marriott

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Pro Con, Inc., the project architect and construction manager, recently celebrated the groundbreaking for this 4-story, extended stay hotel at the Quonset Business park in Kingston, Rhode Island.

The developer, New Boston Fund, Inc., has registered the 55,453-sf hotel with the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and intends to pursue certification under the USGBC’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program; making it one of the first LEED certified hotels in Rhode Island. Pro Con plans to use regional and recycled materials in construction and incorporate eco-friendly methods in the hotel's day to day operations. 

The hotel is designed for travelers looking for moderately priced accommodations with ammenities for an extended stay. Most of the suites include kitchens with a stovetop, microwave, refrigerator and coffee maker. Also, an indoor pool, fitness room, outdoor patio, laundry and breakfast buffet area are available to all guests. The Towne Place Suites in Kingston are scheduled to open in spring 2011. 

 

 

 

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Red Desert Water Reclamation Facility

Description: Thiswater reclamation facility in Wyoming, operated by Cate Street Capital,makes use of the latest technology while addressing the growingenvironmental concern of water produced by the hydraulic processing ofoil and natural gas. Red Desert uses Clean Runner's proprietaryPetroCleanse technology which is capable of cleansing up to 20,000barrels of water per day. This facility provides efficient, economicaland environmentally friendly water processing in an easy to accesslocation with a 24/7 lounge for drivers. Details:

Cherokee Nation Muskogee Health Center

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The Muskogee Health Clinic is a 103,000 square foot facility designed for the Cherokee Nation.  The clinic has several functions including Primary Care, Diagnostic Imaging, Laboratory, Information Management, Pharmacy, Employee Education, Community Health, Eye Care, Behavioral Health, Physical Therapy, Dental and Administration Services.  The design of this facility incorporates Cherokee Heritage throughout the exterior and interior of the building, such as the round columns at the main entry reminiscent of the old Seminary Columns.

Tangram has worked with Childers Architect for years to develop high-quality visualizations for many of their projects.

Client Testimonial
“Tangram 3DS LLC are experts in the visualization of our projects.  The level of detail achieved in there animations and renderings surpasses any rendering service we have used in the past.  Tangram 3DS LLC services not only help the client visualize the project often aids us in the design of our facilities.”
- Breck Childers, Design Architect, James R. Childers Architect, Inc. Details:

Paradise Valley Junior Ballroom

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When the Procaccianti Group acquired the Doubletree Paradise Valley Resort in Scottsdale, AZ, they came to Tangram to visualize Di Leonardo’s plans for a complete renovation of the facility.  Working from a combination of photographs of the existing interiors and the architects’ progress plans, Tangram’s artist created the new interior and outfitted it for a traditional wedding reception. Details:

Cricket Valley Center LLC

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40 Broad Street

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70 Greene

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Obere Alte Donau

Description: Selected Homes, the real estate firm of Vienna, Austria, hired Tangram to create both interior and exterior renderings of this contemporary multi-family residence in the desirable Obere Alte Donau, or Upper Old Danube. This popular recreational area in Vienna occurs where a dam seperates a branch of the Danube River from its main course creating a shallow lake perfect for swimming and boating. The building consists of four luxury apartments, with two to four bedrooms and common access to a pool and garden. The penthouse unit features a 360º view and a private pool on one of its many terraces. Details:

150 Federal Street

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Project Description

Tasked with revitalizing the main lobby and public corridors of the 150 Federal Street, a thirty-story office tower in Boston, TRO Jung | Brannen teamed up with Tangram 3DS to offer their clients visual aids that communicated their design intentions.

Renovations include large stained cherry and beech wood art panels, new wood and backlit glass front reception desk with state-of-the-art security provisions, and updated lighting scheme featuring daylight lamping.  The design also features new lobby seating with black bamboo planters and an interactive building directory.

Working from existing hardcopy blueprints, on-site photography, and the architect's design sketches, Tangram created multiple 3D interior perspectives as well as a photo montage of the exterior building's redesigned sidewalk and signage configuration.  Recreating the lobby space as a three-dimensional computer model allowed the architects to experiment with different design schemes as well as new materials and textures.  The response TRO J|B received from these images allowed them to hone their designs and ensure their client's satisfaction with the project.

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Acushnet Public Library

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After successfully collaborating with Tangram on the Portsmouth Public Library, architect Thomas Amsler came back with a proposed design for a library in Acushnet, MA.  The renderings were used to present the design to the town for public review of the project.

Client Testimonial
"It was great to work with Tangram.  They are all very personal, down to earth, practical and skilled people.  What impressed us was the ability for us to choose the most desired viewing angle from a series of viewpoints and shadow studies prepared for us at different times of day.  Tangram listened to us, and accommodating and incorporating our ideas."
- Thomas A. Amsler, AIA, Principle, Amsler Mashek Maclean, Architects Inc. Details:

Vineland

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West End Villas

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Choctaw Casino at Stringtown

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Arche Nova

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GTECH Center

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The GTECH Center in Providence, RI, is a 400,000 square foot urban mixed-use building.  Architect Al Spagnolo of Spagnolo/Gisness & Associates engaged Tangram 3DS to produce renderings while his firm refined their design.

The task of incorporating a major retail center and associated parking in the heart of the Capital Center District presented several challenges.  Foremost was the need to create a functional pedestrian corridor between the historic Rhode Island State House and the Downcity retail section.  Also a concern was the enormous structure's impact on the adjacent Waterplace park. Details:

Choctaw Nation Idabel Health Clinic

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The Idabel Indian Healthcare Clinic is a 56,000 square foot ambulatory health facility designed for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.  The facility design utilizes the HIS Design Templates with modifications and was constructed under a “Fast Track” Construction Management format. Facilities include clinical exam, physical therapy, eye-clinic, lab, radiology, and a dental clinic.

Tangram has worked with James R. Childers Architect for many years, aiding them from the design phase to final presentation.  A model of collaboration, Tangram’s familiarity with the team at Childers Architect and their design workflow has allowed for both sides to develop a short-hand in working together.  As a result, whether working from a rough design model out of SketchUp or a full set of construction documents, Tangram can fill in the blanks without stopping production.

Client Testimonial
“Tangram 3DS LLC are experts in the visualization of our projects.  The level of detail achieved in there animations and renderings surpasses any rendering service we have used in the past.  Tangram 3DS LLC services not only help the client visualize the project often aids us in the design of our facilities.”
- Breck Childers, Design Architect, James R. Childers Architect, Inc. Details:

Renaissance at Patriot Place

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Dubai Wellness Center

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Red160

Description: Project Description: Two six story mixed use buildings consisting of 250 units and 12,200 square feet of retail. The project is located in Redmond, Washington.
Testimonial for Tangram 3DS: The team at Tangram was a pleasure to work with. They're extremely professional and talented. They produced amazing life-like renderings that were on-time and on-budget. These renderings will be crucial to marketing our development. Stefan and Shaun - thank you so much and I look forward to working with you again soon!

Mariam Ibrahim
Marketing Director, Marketing and Branding

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Langham Hotel Boston Fitness Center

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This interior renovation of the Langham Hotel Fitness Center in Boston was another project where TRO Jung|Brannen worked with Tangram 3DS to develop visual design aid imagery.  Tangram’s modelers recreated the existing fitness center in a computer model, and then adapted that model according to design sketches and concepts from architects at TRO Jung|Brannen.  Visualization artists then rendered those models into finished renderings which were presented to the owners for feedback.

By collaborating with Tangram, project architects are able to spend less time assembling client presentation materials and focus on taking their designs further. Details:

Arizona Bank & Trust

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To effectively communicate their high-end branding concepts in both architecture and interior design, BrandPartners relies on the work of Tangram 3DS.  By presenting their clients with computer renderings, the design team can respond to concerns before the project reaches build stage.

Over the years, Tangram 3DS has produced imagery for a long list of BrandPartners' clients, including 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union, Arizona Bank & Trust, Bank Atlantic, Community Trust Bank, First County Bank, Old National Bank, Viking Bank, Washington Mutual, and many others.

Client Testimonial
“Tangram 3DS continues to be a go to resource for industry leading visualizations solutions for BrandPartners, Inc. At BrandPartners we provide our clients with creative and innovative design solutions ranging from merchandising programs and point of sale to complete turn-key branded retail environments. Our challenge is often helping clients understand all that can be expected from the creative solutions we provide. Tangram 3DS consistently provides us with the tools we need to not only help our clients visualize the un-built environment but often helps us significantly reduce design time by using this same information to streamline the design process.”
- Ron Reilly, Director of Environmental Design, Brand Partners Retail Inc. Details:

Choctaw Nation McAlester Health Clinic

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The Choctaw Nation McAlester Center is a 44,800 square foot ambulatory health facility located in McAlester, Oklahoma.  Tangram has worked with James R. Childers Architect for many years, aiding them from the design phase to final presentation.  A model of collaboration, Tangram’s familiarity with the team at Childers Architect and their design workflow has allowed for both sides to develop a short-hand in working together.  As a result, whether working from a rough design model out of SketchUp or a full set of construction documents, Tangram can fill in the blanks without stopping production.

Client Testimonial
“Tangram 3DS LLC are experts in the visualization of our projects.  The level of detail achieved in there animations and renderings surpasses any rendering service we have used in the past.  Tangram 3DS LLC services not only help the client visualize the project often aids us in the design of our facilities.”
- Breck Childers, Design Architect, James R. Childers Architect, Inc. Details:

The Westin Providence

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This project was a 400,000 GSF mixed-use tower expansion to the Westin Providence Hotel.  It included a 200 hotel guestroom addition to the existing Westin with 12,000 GSF ground-floor retail/restaurant, 102 condominiums, and 150 private parking spaces.  Designed to the latest International Energy Code, with CIP concrete structure, brick and precast enclosure, insulated low-e windows and terrace doors, and Energy Star appliances.

Tangram was involved at the project’s inception, reproducing the existing Westin Providence tower as well as the neighboring city blocks and architecture in a 3D computer model.  The new residential tower was refined over the course of the project until the city and owners were satisfied with its design.  This long-term collaboration made it possible for Tangram to deliver revised renderings on-demand throughout the design phase, with the final renderings available to the owners for sales and marketing use.

The Residences at The Westin Providence

Client Testimonial
We worked closely and intensively with Tangram 3DS on the Westin beginning with the schematic design through final client and city regulatory approvals.  This schedule was demanding and often required collaboration and production within a short turnaround to meet city-imposed project deadlines.  Working with Tangram 3DS was the best solution for this process, with Tangram being able to intuitively respond to design team changes from (often) sketchy information.  Our office continues to work with Tangram 3DS on most of our design projects.
- L. Glenn Allen, Senior Associate, TRO Jung|Brannen Details:

1700 Midtown

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Choctaw Casinos Durant Resort

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A new pool at the Choctaw Casino & Resort in Durant Oklahoma.

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Tangram 3DS has proven their capabilities with superior visualization services on an extremely unique project. Tangram successfully modeled a landscape based on limited information and aggressive timelines. Both the architect and owner were thrilled with the end product!

Casey A. Hargrave, Architect

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Bank Atlantic

Description: Project Description
To effectively communicate their high-end branding concepts in both architecture and interior design, BrandPartners relies on the work of Tangram 3DS.  By presenting their clients with computer renderings, the design team can respond to concerns before the project reaches build stage.

Over the years, Tangram 3DS has produced imagery for a long list of BrandPartners' clients, including 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union, Arizona Bank & Trust, Bank Atlantic, Community Trust Bank, First County Bank, Old National Bank, Viking Bank, Washington Mutual, and many others.

Client Testimonial
“Tangram 3DS continues to be a go to resource for industry leading visualizations solutions for BrandPartners, Inc. At BrandPartners we provide our clients with creative and innovative design solutions ranging from merchandising programs and point of sale to complete turn-key branded retail environments. Our challenge is often helping clients understand all that can be expected from the creative solutions we provide. Tangram 3DS consistently provides us with the tools we need to not only help our clients visualize the un-built environment but often helps us significantly reduce design time by using this same information to streamline the design process.”
- Ron Reilly, Director of Environmental Design, Brand Partners Retail Inc. Details:

Media One Tower

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The Media One Tower, also referred to as the Al Jaber Tower, is a 43-story, 41,250 square meter mixed-use tower comprised of a 267-bedroom four star business hotel with bars, restaurants, a health club, conference facilities, twenty floors of office space and seven floors of podium parking for over 800 cars.

Inspired by the digital environment and technology of Media City, the dynamic glass and steel tower with angled windows is designed as a uniquely kinetic skin that will create an ever-changing rhythm of light as it captures the sun moving across the sky, reflections from the sea and from internal and external illumination during the night.

During the design phase, the project architects at TRO Jung|Brannen worked closely with Tangram 3DS to deliver up-to-date renderings, and the finished products were used by the owners for sales and marketing.

Client Testimonial
"Tangram 3DS has the state-of-the-art tools and in-house expertise, which has enabled TRO J|B to fully realize the potential of any given project.  It’s been a real pleasure to work with a firm with such talent and professionalism."
- Joe Mamayek, AIA, Director of Architectural Design, TRO Jung|Brannen, Inc. Details:

48 Commonwealth Avenue

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48 Commonwealth Avenue is a restoration of an historic brownstone residence in Boston.  Tangram 3DS was brought in to provide high-end visualizations of a typical unit on the building's third floor.  In collaboration with the Stonegate Group's interior designer and property brokers from Coldwell Banker, Tangram produced two perspective renderings of the condo's living space.

Tangram 3DS also worked with Stonegate to produce renderings of a similar rehabilitation project at 212 Beacon Street. Details:

Addison Gallery of American Art

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First County Bank

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To effectively communicate their high-end branding concepts in both architecture and interior design, BrandPartners relies on the work of Tangram 3DS.  By presenting their clients with computer renderings, the design team can respond to concerns before the project reaches build stage.

Over the years, Tangram 3DS has produced imagery for a long list of BrandPartners' clients, including 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union, Arizona Bank & Trust, Bank Atlantic, Community Trust Bank, First County Bank, Old National Bank, Viking Bank, Washington Mutual, and many others.

Client Testimonial
“Tangram 3DS continues to be a go to resource for industry leading visualizations solutions for BrandPartners, Inc. At BrandPartners we provide our clients with creative and innovative design solutions ranging from merchandising programs and point of sale to complete turn-key branded retail environments. Our challenge is often helping clients understand all that can be expected from the creative solutions we provide. Tangram 3DS consistently provides us with the tools we need to not only help our clients visualize the un-built environment but often helps us significantly reduce design time by using this same information to streamline the design process.”
- Ron Reilly, Director of Environmental Design, Brand Partners Retail Inc. Details:

Dubai Development Concept

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Tangram produced this image for TRO Jung|Brannen as part of a design presentation to their client in Dubai.  The project involved producing massing studies and preliminary models, from which ultimately this angle was chosen and developed into a finished rendering.  Once materials were applied, the designers asked Tangram to produce several iterations allowing them to see and react to multiple color schemes and refine their concept.

Ultimately the design was rejected and has since gone into extensive redesign, however even in such cases where a rendering sends architects back to the drawing board, rarely are clients displeased with the renderings.  In the end Tangram’s images always contribute to a design result that is liked by all parties involved.

Client Testimonial
"Tangram 3DS has the state-of-the-art tools and in-house expertise, which has enabled TRO J|B to fully realize the potential of any given project.  It’s been a real pleasure to work with a firm with such talent and professionalism."
- Joe Mamayek, AIA, Director of Architectural Design, TRO Jung|Brannen, Inc. Details:

Fall River Trial Courthouse

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Third Square Cambridge

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Dubai World Trade Center Residencies

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When TRO Jung|Brannen was asked to provide high-quality interior renderings of their clients’ new luxury residency tower in Dubai, they came to Tangram 3DS.  Building on their longstanding relationship of collaboration with Tangram, architects at TRO Jung|Brannen developed these interior images with Tangram over several months, while simultaneously receiving feedback from their client on the images allowing them to refine their designs further to the client’s wishes.

Client Testimonial
"The World Trade Center Residences is a 40-story apartment tower now under construction at one of the major landmark locations in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The project takes advantage of the recently introduced free-hold rules in Dubai and is able to offer all 378 apartments for long term (99 year) lease.

"The WTC Residences are targeted at the luxury market in Dubai with the expectation that most units will sell to the non-nationals that make up a majority of the population. To that end, the project is designed to be an icon of quality, representing the Owner’s personal standards. The Owner has built many famous building including the renowned Burj Al Arab.

"Tangram 3DS worked with Jung|Brannen to create several views of interior spaces that are being used in the Sales and Marketing materials as well as large scale images for the walls of the on-site Sales Center. We have been very pleased with the effort put forth by Tangram, through the many revisions requested by the client, but always resulting in an energized drawing which fully represented the design as we had imagined it to be finally realized."
- Duncan Pendlebury, President, TRO Jung|Brannen, Inc. Details:

18 Congress Street Exterior

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18 Congress Street is a 56,000 sf mixed-use project in the heart of the Historic District in Portsmouth.  It includes underground parking, ground level retail and second floor office space.  Floors three through five consist of eighteen luxury condominiums.  The structure is a steel frame with brick masonry cladding and a high level of stone and pre-cast detailing.

Tangram was involved during the design phase of the project to develop renderings that proved to the Portsmouth Historic District Committee that the new construction would complement the surrounding architecture.  The renderings gained further use by Olde Port Properties in their marketing campaign while building construction was underway.

Client Testimonial
"We worked very closely with the Tangram 3DS team to create a series of images that demonstrated the design of the project in a sensitive historic context.  As we moved the Historic District Commission through the acceptance of our building program and massing, Tangram 3DS was uniquely suited to portray our design ideas that resulted in a series of perspective views.  The result greatly helped in creating a sense of confidence with our client and in the community that the project would be a successful fit.  In addition, the images have been very useful tools in marketing the project for our client and ourselves.  We view this project as an excellent example of design collaboration with Tangram 3DS."
- Steven McHenry, Principle, McHenry Architecture Details:

Muskogee (Creek) Nation Koweta Health Clinic

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Bow Lake Residence

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FourPly Studio came to Tangram for multiple interior renderings of this ecologically-conscious vacation retreat on a private island in Bow Lake, a 1,160-acre water body located in eastern New Hampshire.  Tangram was brought on board to demonstrate this home's direct relationship with nature using photo-real imagery. FourPly needed renderings that would definitively show their design's ability to communicate with and exist harmoniously in its surroundings.

Testimonial

It was an absolute pleasure to work with Tangram 3DS. We were in a tough situation and needed renderings turned around in next to no time to review with our client. They delivered the renderings faster than we could have ever expected and they looked fantastic. We will definitely work with Tangram 3DS again. 

Brent Zeigler
Principal & Founding Partner
FourPly Studio

 

 

 

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Jumeirah Beach Club Resort

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Tasked with expanding and modernizing the Jumeirah Beach Club Resort in Dubai, the team of architects at TRO Jung|Brannen enlisted Tangram 3DS to produce highly detailed images of the overall development plan.  The design team focused on producing two different proposals.  Both would include the addition of a large hotel, reconfiguration of the existing recreational facilities, and new beach villas.

Tangram recreated the existing facility from aerial photographs and modeled various iterations of the proposed buildings based on sketches from the architects. Details:

Old National Bank

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To effectively communicate their high-end branding concepts in both architecture and interior design, BrandPartners relies on the work of Tangram 3DS.  By presenting their clients with computer renderings, the design team can respond to concerns before the project reaches build stage.

Over the years, Tangram 3DS has produced imagery for a long list of BrandPartners' clients, including 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union, Arizona Bank & Trust, Bank Atlantic, Community Trust Bank, First County Bank, Old National Bank, Viking Bank, Washington Mutual, and many others.

Client Testimonial
“Tangram 3DS continues to be a go to resource for industry leading visualizations solutions for BrandPartners, Inc. At BrandPartners we provide our clients with creative and innovative design solutions ranging from merchandising programs and point of sale to complete turn-key branded retail environments. Our challenge is often helping clients understand all that can be expected from the creative solutions we provide. Tangram 3DS consistently provides us with the tools we need to not only help our clients visualize the un-built environment but often helps us significantly reduce design time by using this same information to streamline the design process.”
- Ron Reilly, Director of Environmental Design, Brand Partners Retail Inc. Details:

Portsmouth Public Library

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Bryant Park West

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Bryant Park West is a residential community that seeks to provide students at the University of New Hampshire with an eco-friendly alternative in off-campus housing.  This new construction will make use of the latest in sustainable design and alternative building practices. These all-inclusive apartments facilitate a lively, communal environment while offering all the privacy and amenities of off-campus living.  Tangram 3DS created both exterior and interior views of Bryant Park West as well as rendered layouts of each unit type for use in online and print marketing.

Client Testimonial
“Working with Tangram has been a very gratifying experience – their professionalism and creativity has produced images that are now the cornerstone of the Bryant Park West marketing effort.  They asked all the right questions, listened to any concerns that I had, and adapted their work based on my input.  At the end of the day, their imagery is exactly what I needed to market to the UNH student community, and I will definitely recommend their services to friends and colleagues in the future.”
Perry Bryant, Owner, Bryant Property

 

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Viking Bank

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To effectively communicate their high-end branding concepts in both architecture and interior design, BrandPartners relies on the work of Tangram 3DS.  By presenting their clients with computer renderings, the design team can respond to concerns before the project reaches build stage.

Over the years, Tangram 3DS has produced imagery for a long list of BrandPartners' clients, including 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union, Arizona Bank & Trust, Bank Atlantic, Community Trust Bank, First County Bank, Old National Bank, Viking Bank, Washington Mutual, and many others.

Client Testimonial
“Tangram 3DS continues to be a go to resource for industry leading visualizations solutions for BrandPartners, Inc. At BrandPartners we provide our clients with creative and innovative design solutions ranging from merchandising programs and point of sale to complete turn-key branded retail environments. Our challenge is often helping clients understand all that can be expected from the creative solutions we provide. Tangram 3DS consistently provides us with the tools we need to not only help our clients visualize the un-built environment but often helps us significantly reduce design time by using this same information to streamline the design process.”
- Ron Reilly, Director of Environmental Design, Brand Partners Retail Inc. Details:

Kaltenleutgeben

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Congregation B'nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim

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Project Description
The project renovates and expands three one-story buildings of an existing office park into a new synagogue for BJBE. The total built area of 75,000 GSF is subdivided equally amongst three buildings, which will be connected in the new design. There is extensive reworking of two of the buildings to accommodate a sanctuary that seats 600, a social hall that can accommodate 400 banquet style, chapel, administrative offices, and a new school wing for up to 360 students.

In addition, there is extensive reworking of the existing site to create gardens and outdoor gathering spaces for a variety of worship, social and school related activities. Finally, the conversion of these office buildings into a religious institution for a wide variety of program spaces and uses brought out the creative energies of our team and the client to create a new and bold vision for their new home.

Client Testimonials
"The Tangram team did a wonderful job for us on this proposed renovation/expansion of an office park into a new home for the BJBE congregation. The visual still and animation images showing us and our client what the new design and interior spaces would feel like were incredibly realistic, and Stefan and his team have been a real pleasure to work with on this project. Having never done a religious building as a project type before, Tangram met and exceeded our expectations in a timely and courteous fashion. I would recommend them to anyone without hesitation, and we are hiring them to do more work for other clients who were very impressed with what they did for us for BJBE."
- Tony Hsiao, Principle Director of Design, FA+A

"Tony very eloquently, and accurately, expressed our sentiments here at BJBE.  It's an amazing piece of work and I'm confident that it will increase excitement, get people dreaming, and ultimately lead to our successful Capital Campaign."
- Marc J. Swatez, Ph.D., FTA, Executive Director, Congregation BJBE

"I just wanted to let you know that the video is wonderful!  The animation absolutely captures the essence of BJBE’s future home."
- Tracy Friend, President of BJBE

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Red Road Commons

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Vienna’s Schafberg Garden House

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Vienna’s Schafberg Garden House by Architect Johann Lettner: a Green Oasis in an Urban Landscape 

Vienna’s allotment gardens have long since provided city dwellers in the Austrian capital a welcome opportunity to commune with nature. Small garden lots (approx. 220 m2) on the Schafberg, a hilly green area in Vienna’s west end with beautiful views of the city, are particularly sought after. Since the 1990s, zoning changes have made it possible to construct year-round housing on these lots under restrictive conditions.  To retain the green space and garden character of the area as much as possible, construction is limited to two stories plus cellar on an area of 50 m2 per building lot.  Furthermore, access to this auto-free zone is granted to small vehicles for a limited time only during construction. The design of a year-round luxury residence on this hillside site required the greatest attention not only to aesthetics but also to space, energy, and time efficiency.

The Schafberg Garden House by architect Johann Lettner offers an elegant and supremely “green” solution to the many challenges posed by both zoning regulations and specific site conditions. Designed on split levels facing the southwest and positioned to create private outdoor areas, these eco-friendly houses fit into the hillside seamlessly and make full use of passive house construction techniques, which render conventional heating systems unnecessary. The selection of building materials is largely determined by the requirements of passive house technology as well as zoning restrictions: the extensive use of glass allows for an optimal use of solar energy, materials offer super insulation values and building elements must be easy to transport and/or dismantle. Large windows, terraces and rooftop terraces expand living areas to include their lovely surroundings.  The minimalist design of the interiors with its subdued color palette and simple yet elegant material selection lets the views command the scene, further blurring the line between indoors and outdoors.

 

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University of Scranton

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Stringtown Casino

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Alta at Indian Woods

Description: This 154-apartment community offers one and two bedroom units available in several design configurations with numerous amenities. The garden-style buildings will be surrounded with plentiful greenery and outdoor seating areas. ProCon, Inc. is the architect and general contractor, providing extensive site work. Alta at Indian Woods is also a part of the Massachusetts New Homes with ENGERGY STAR program, which focuses on high energy efficiency designed to reduce consumption to a level that is 15% lower than a comparable project. The first building will be ready for occupancy in November 2010, while the second and third will be completed in January 2011. Details:

Mountain Reach

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Mountain Reach is a development of 26 residential condominiums on the side of Mt. Sunapee in Newbury, NH.  With trails and a ski lift leading to the Mt. Sunapee Resort located adjacent to the property, residents will be able to enjoy majestic views and hit the slopes at whim.  The homes themselves are styled after the great Adirondack camps of the 19th century.

The Azimuth Group approached Tangram to create renderings and an animation of the development for inclusion in the project's marketing package.  Combining data from the project architects, landscape designers, civil engineers, and terrain models from the USGS, Tangram recreated much of the environment around Mt. Sunapee for an aerial fly-in animation. Details:

Ardmore

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Choctaw Casino in Idabel

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Mansfield

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Nokia Cambridge

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Avalon Shelton

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SB Center

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Oak Meadow

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Harbour Hill

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A part of the changing face of Portsmouth, Harbour Hill includes 21 high-end condominiums.  The project also included the attached Hilton Garden Inn Portsmouth Downtown.  Cathartes Investments engaged Tangram 3DS to produce two computer visualizations of the finished building exterior for project marketing and sales.  Additionally Tangram was involved during the design phase by DeStefano Architects to produce visual aids that encouraged the Portsmouth Historic District Commission to approve construction.

Press
Construction of Downtown Hotel Signals New Era in City
by Michael McCord

The transformation has begun.  Construction workers have started laying the foundation on the residential section of the $30 million Hilton Garden Inn project at the corner of High and Hanover streets.  Steel beams will be placed in the next few months, and in less than a year, 21 luxury condominiums of Harbour Hill will be ready for vacancy...  [continued]

Client Testimonial
”Tangram 3DS method of working closely with us, listening and building from our architectural drawings to create imagery closely resembling reality is stunning. We have found it an indisputable tool of ease for visualizing options throughout the design process.  Their knowledge of the built environment and ability to imagine alongside the architect only enhance the process and add to the accessibility of their product.”
- Lisa DeStefano, Principle, DeStefano Architects

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St. James

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Avalon at Danvers State

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Premiere luxury rental apartments on Hawthorne Hill about 13 miles north of Boston. Tangram 3DS was asked to visualize the Resident Lounge for presentation and marketing purposes.  Working closely with the interior designer, a rich palette of textures and muted hues were selected to balance the cathedral ceilings heavy steel framework.

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Webster Five Cents

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The Etonic Lofts

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The Etonic Lofts was a rehabilitation project to turn a vacant storage building in Brockton, MA, into a modern residential condo building.  The units feature open floor plans, exposed brick and beams, hardwood floors, oversized windows, gated parking, and a state-of-the-art fitness center.  Tangram 3DS created views of both the renovated building facade and a typical loft unit for project marketing and sales.

Client Testimonial
"Tangram provided exceptional work and exhibited professionalism throughout the project.  It was truly a pleasure doing business with the firm and we look forward to utilizing them on future developments."
- Jeffrey M. Johnston, Principle, Cathartes Investments Details:

Crosspoint Lobby

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The Brewery Lofts

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The Brewery Lofts, an historic rehabilitation to 79 loft-style residential condominium homes.  Located in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, adjacent to the Longwood Medical area, The Brewery Lofts will be an eclectic mix of old and new.  The majority of the living space will be located in the main historic buildings, which were originally built in 1893 to house The American Brewing Company.  Historical elements will be preserved and enhanced, ranging from large period clock faces mounted at the peaks, to Queen Ann style details throughout.  New construction will provide structured parking and additional residential units.  The project will also include a 5,000 square-foot interior courtyard, which will retain its original cobblestones.

Tangram 3DS was brought in to produce high-impact computer renderings of the newly designed exterior courtyard and a typical unit interior.  Artists from Tangram visited the site and took extensive reference photography from which they recreated the building's period details.  The old and the new first clashed in Tangram's computer model where the space was transformed into a high-end contemporary loft space to the architects' specifications.

Client Testimonial
"We highly recommend Tangram 3DS.  Stefan and his team created beautiful, lifelike virtual renderings of the Brewery Lofts that brought our vision to life!"
- Elizabeth Schultz, Director Marketing & Sales,The Procaccianti Group, LLC. Details:

School Street

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Kimball Woods

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Kimball Woods is a 256-unit mixed income development in Burlington, MA. The project, a Friendly 40B, was endorsed by the community and has a density of 100 units per acre. The mid-rise development features two 10-story towers with structured parking.  Tangram was asked to provide the Mullins Company with interior renderings of the corridors, common spaces, and of a typical unit from Kimball Woods.

Vismasters Image of the Week!
Tangram is proud to note that the first rendering was selected to be a Vismasters Image of the Week for extraordinary work in architectural visualization.

www.vismasters.com Details:

212 Beacon Street

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212 Beacon Street is an opulent rehabilitation of one of Boston's historic brownstone residences.  With units starting at over $2 million, the Stonegate Group required imagery of the highest calibre depicting the living spaces decorated in a conservative New England style.  Hand-selected furniture and finishes were carefully recreated in the computer model to give the images a subtle and refined composition.

Tangram 3DS also worked with the Stonegate Group to produce renderings of a similar renovation project at 48 Commonwealth Avenue. Details:

New Hampshire Residence

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These images were created for TMS Architects to present a proposed single-family home to their client.  The model was produced from CAD plans and elevations, however the site and landscaping werelargely improvised by Tangram due to lack of information.  This project is an excellent example of the high level of detail that Tangram can deliver, regardless of scale or architectural style. Details:

Monarch Lofts

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The Monarch Lofts represent developer Bob Ansin’s dream to breathe new life into the city of Lawrence, MA, by turning a mile long, mostly vacant mill building into modern loft condominiums and amenities that will attract property buyers young and old back to the city.  This presented an enormous challenge to the marketing group at MassInnovation, who turned to Tangram 3DS to produce photo-realistic computer renderings representing the project in its finished form to prospective tennants.

Tangram delivered images of three different unit types and continues to assist MassInnovation with the project.

Client Testimonial
“The Tangram 3DS renderings allowed us and our buyers to see how beautiful this old mill building could be as it was transformed into contemporary lofts.  The realism and detail are remarkable -- even today people confuse the renderings with photos of our model units!”
- Arah Schuur, Director of Planning and Development, MassInnovation LLC.
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Penny Savings Bank Residencies

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The Boston Penny Savings Bank, circa 1911, was adapted for residential use by Finegold Alexander + Associates.  The plan called for complete restoration of the existing building's facade while the interiors were gutted and rebuilt.  Atop the two-story building was added a three-story glass cube to house apartment units.  The walls of the cube were built deliberately askew to the existing bank's footprint to separate the two architectural styles spatially.

Tangram's renderings of the Boston Penny Savings Bank were the Stonegate Group's first marketing image of the project that depicted the building in its refurbished state and the addition of the glass cube.  As such they have seen use not only for marketing, but also for generating public interest in this grand renovation at the corner of Washington and Union Park streets.

Press Release
BRA Board OKs Penny Savings Bank Restoration in South End
Project to Bring 23 New Units of Housing, Ground Floor Retail Along Washington Street

The Boston Redevelopment Authority Board of Directors today granted approval to the restoration and expansion of the former Penny Savings Bank building on Washington Street in the South End.  The project will restore the existing facade of the former two-story bank and construct a three-story addition to make way for 23 new units of houseing... [continued] Details:

Pocahontas Road Residence

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Pocahontas Road is a visualization of a turn of the century New England home brought back to life through a complete interior/exterior renovation and addition.  At the time that Tangram was asked to produce this image, the building was a mass of plywood and scaffolding and the site a mudhole after recent heavy rains.  Thanks to computer rendering, the property was able to be listed and advertised without months before it would have been ready to photograph.

Client Testimonial
"Tangram’s exterior rendering allowed the developer to show interested home owners the post construction product we were in process of creating. The renderings are an invaluable tool for conceptualizing, marketing and sales purposes at all phases of the project."
- Jennifer Ramsey, Architect, SOMMA Details:

SNCI NYC Tower

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Sustainable Vertical Neighborhood Proposed
This iconic 950 foot tall residential tower is proposed for a micro- urban site in New York City. 
Designed by solus4, an architecture and planning  firm, the tower is a vertical neighborhood creating an efficient and valuable 
use for a small and otherwise underutilized water’s edge site. Uniquely, the tower is designed by solus4 using their SNCI principals 
(Sustainable Neighborhood Collaborative Initiative). Applying these principles to a vertical neighborhood requires the full engagement 
of the design team, the building team, the financing team and the owners.

With a cross-section of G plus 55, there are 50 full-floor three bedroom plus apartments planned at approximately 3,000 square feet 
each served by high speed destination selective elevators. The distinctive shape of this tower comes from its innovative structure 
and energy generating systems. The entire structural system, designed by LeMessurier Consultants, is in-situ concrete with flat slabs 
supported by columns and shear walls embedded in the extruded core shaft leaving large portions of the perimeter free for the 14 foot 
floor to ceiling glass.
The exterior glazing makes up one of the tallest proposed hybrid double glazed skins. While the initial intent of the double skin is 
to enhance the thermal barrier thereby controlling heat gain in the summer and heat loss in the winter, an interesting added benefit 
will be the chimney effect at the external surface.  Strategically placed mini-turbines take advantage of the vertical air movement 
to generate supplementary power. Balconies at each floor provide exterior space for the resident while adding a variable shading screen 
to further control glare and heat gain. Temperature controlled window shading with personal preference overrides will provide for 
individual comfort requirements in any season.
The 950 foot tall blade mast is cantilevered off the concrete frame. Its entire outside surface as well as certain portions of the exterior 
glazing is covered with transparent thin film photo voltaic panels projected to provide – in combination with other passive and active 
sustainable systems, the majority of the power requirement for the building. Initial calculations show the building generating excess power 
at certain times of the year thereby a possible source of income to the residence owners. Keeping to the SNCI principles for energy savings 
strategies, the building will have no parking except for a quantity of all-electric cars in a variety of model configurations 
(sedans, SUVs, mini-cars, etc.) that will be garaged on-site and owned and operated by the common ownership of the residences using a card 
access system.
The balconies, in addition to providing living space and shading, also act as rainwater collectors. The rainwater, rather than being shed to 
the street, will be harvested and added to the grey water recycling system. Along with fully integrated energy management systems, each 
apartment will have its own mini-plant for comfort control, domestic water and recycling thereby ensuring a stand-alone capability and 
reduced reliance on central systems.
The street level base of the tower will include – in addition to the entrance/exit to the all electric car garage – a multi level common 
social space including neighborhood retail and food outlets, mini-produce market, terraced cafes, recreation, gym, swimming, museum/gallery 
space and office/studio space for residents.
Not only will this building provide residences with outstanding views in an outstanding location convenient to all parts of the City, but 
will also place the owners of the residence in the forefront of low impact and sustainable communities. 
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Mill Pond Way

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Ashmont TOD Residences

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Crowntree Lakes

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Longfellow

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32 Rutland Street

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Residential condominium project consisting of 6 direct elevator access units in the South End of Boston.  Combining a turn-of-the-century brick structure and new brick & masonry construction.

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Thanks so much for all your efforts.  I love the images and so does the developer and the marketing agents.  I hope we can do this again soon as well.

Brian Back
Gibson / Sotheby's International Realty
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Islington

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Somerset Grand

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Burlington Heights

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Avalon at Pinehills

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Avalon at Wilton

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Levine Residence

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Westmont

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51 Islington Street

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North Bergen

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Avalon Cohasset

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Mill Pond Way

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Animations

New Orleans Arcology Habitat (NOAH)

Description: Tangram 3DS, a firm specializing in visualization and computer animation, announced it’s collaboration with E. Kevin Schopfer AIA, RIBA. Together, the companies have designed and presented a bold new urban platform. New Orleans Arcology Habitat (NOAH) is a proposed urban Arcology (architecture and ecology), whose philosophic underpinnings rest in combining large scale sustainability with concentrated urban structures, and in this case a floating city.

Tangram 3DS worked with Schopfer to visualize this unique concept and structure. Starting from basic sketches, Tangram 3DS transformed Schopfer’s ideas into visuals and an animation. “Our work helps Kevin convey his concept to the City of New Orleans, investors, the media, and public,” said Stefan Vittori, president and founder of Tangram 3DS, LLC. “To be able to visualize a design project in 3D and through animation is absolutely vital when attempting to sell a design concept that may at first glance be hard to grasp,” adds Vittori.

Why a floating city? There are three major challenges to building in New Orleans. The first challenge is to overcome both the physical and psychological damages of recurring severe weather patterns. Though repopulation has begun, the need to provide a stabilized and safe environment is paramount to a long-term recovery and economic well being of New Orleans. The second challenge is that New Orleans has been built at and below sea levels, which creates a consistently high water table and makes it prone to flooding and storm surges. The third challenge is that New Orleans is built on soil condition that consists of thousands of feet of soft soil, silt and clay.  These conditions make building large-scale concentrated structures difficult. “Believing that NOAH is a viable plan, our solution to overcome these challenges is to take advantage of these seemingly conflicting issues with the introduction of a floating urban platform. This solution is deceptively simple, using water as a controlled, naturally occurring, bearing foundation, is perfectly feasible and practical,” states Schopfer.

As depicted in the 3D renderings by Tangram, given the design's massive scale -- nearly 1,200' tall with a footprint nearly 1/3 of a mile in diameter -- it was clear that Tangram's imagery would need to depict a significant amount of downtown New Orleans to contextualize the project.  A 3D model of the downtown buildings was combined with satellite and aerial survey imagery to build a highly-detailed context model in which NOAH could be placed. This allowed Tangram to create a wide range of imagery, including aerials that covered dozens of city blocks, which effectively communicated the ambitious scale of the NOAH project.

When it came time to produce the animation, the massive scene scale combined with the river and dense activity of the area were extremely challenging to reproduce faithfully in motion.  Tangram teamed up with the team at VFX Direct, located north of Boston, to further polish the animation frames.  The two teams worked closely to build passes of animated elements that VFX Direct would include in their final composite of the animation, along with additional water, smoke, and lighting effects that made the imagery pop.  

A triangulate shape has been chosen as the basis for NOAH, given the fact that a triangle is inherently the most rigid of all structural framing systems. The triangle also allows for an “open” frame configuration, dividing NOAH into three separate “towers” converging at the top.  The intent of this open system is to allow all severe weather to in effect “blow through” the structure in any direction with the minimum of massing interference. To further dissipate wind loads, the outer edges are curved and tilted.

“This is a project of tremendous potential which pushes beyond current expectations for New Orleans and places it in the forefront of the new age of urban growth possibilities,” adds Schopfer. “We hope to one day see it become reality, and with Tangram's unique experience and expertise, that reality comes alive today.”


NOAH will house:
-  Residential Units / Rental and Condominium: 20,000 units @ average 1100 Sq ft
-  Three Hotels: Average 200 rooms plus associated services
-  Time Share Units: 1500 units @ average 1100 sq ft
-  Three Casino Facilities: (to be determined)
-  Commercial Space / Rental and Condominiums: 500,000 sq ft
-  Commercial Space / Retail: 500,000 sq ft
-  Parking Garage / within foundation: 8,000 cars
-  Cultural Facilities: 100,000 sq ft
-  Public Works: 50,000 sq ft / includes storage
-  District School System: 100,000 sq ft
-  District Administrative Office: 50,000 sq ft
-  District Health Care Facility: 20,000 sq ft

Estimated Total Square Footage: 30 million
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West End Asteria & Villas

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West End Vesta

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Berry Residence

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The construction site is located on a hillside near Vienna, Austria. Situated on the southern slope, the house will overlook Vienna. For this reason, the common living areas are located on the upper floor. Wonderful views of the city are provided through the generous use of glass and the construction of a large terrace. The various functional areas of the house are arranged in staggered levels with no loss of space or light. The bedrooms and baths are located on the entry level of the house. A large domed roof light over the stairs provides good lighting all the way down to the street level and opens up the entry area to the upper level.
The house was conceived as a passive solar house using the timber construction method and will be sided with light colored panels.
From the street-level carport, a service elevator will carry people and goods to the upper level.

Testimonial:
Our architectural office commissioned Tangram 3ds with the visualization and animation of a single family residence we had designed for an (Austrian) artist. The client wanted photo quality exterior and interior views as well as a 90-second walkthrough animation of the building.We got several estimates for the visualization and animation work. Tangram 3ds offered the best quality work for the price.Our work with Tangram 3ds proved to be extremely advantageous. Our expectations, which were high to begin with, were exceeded. Our client had a very precise design concept in mind, so good communication was of the utmost importance in turning this concept into reality. With the help of Tangram 3ds, we were able to provide our client with a photo realistic rendering of our design, including materials, color selections, lighting, vegetation, and surroundings, which gave the client a true impression of his future home.The architectural 3d animation or walkthrough was especially important to our client who is a film enthusiast. The ability to “walk through” his virtual home heightened his anticipation of the finished project while providing him with a powerful tool for marketing the house as a future location for filming commercials and movies.
As a result of our positive experience, we will continue to work with Tangram 3ds in the future. We believe that the marketing for future projects will be faster and more effective with the services provided by Tangram 3ds. Visualization products of this quality can boost sales even before construction completion.
Architect Johann Lettner
Vienna, Austria Details:

Cherokee Nation Muskogee Health Center

Description: Project Description
The Muskogee Health Clinic is a 103,000 square foot facility designed for the Cherokee Nation.  The clinic has several functions including Primary Care, Diagnostic Imaging, Laboratory, Information Management, Pharmacy, Employee Education, Community Health, Eye Care, Behavioral Health, Physical Therapy, Dental and Administration Services.  The design of this facility incorporates Cherokee Heritage throughout the exterior and interior of the building, such as the round columns at the main entry reminiscent of the old Seminary Columns.

Tangram has worked with Childers Architect for years to develop high-quality visualizations for many of their projects.  

Client Testimonial
“Tangram 3DS LLC are experts in the visualization of our projects.  The level of detail achieved in there animations and renderings surpasses any rendering service we have used in the past.  Tangram 3DS LLC services not only help the client visualize the project often aids us in the design of our facilities.”
- Breck Childers, Design Architect, James R. Childers Architect, Inc. Details:

Choctaw Casino in Idabel

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BJBE Synagogue

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Monarch Lofts

Description: Project Description
The Monarch Lofts represent developer Bob Ansin’s dream to breathe new life into the city of Lawrence, MA, by turning a mile long, mostly vacant mill building into modern loft condominiums and amenities that will attract property buyers young and old back to the city.  This presented an enormous challenge to the marketing group at MassInnovation, who turned to Tangram 3DS to produce photo-realistic computer renderings representing the project in its finished form to prospective tennants.

Tangram delivered images of three different unit types and continues to assist MassInnovation with the project.

Client Testimonial
“The Tangram 3DS renderings allowed us and our buyers to see how beautiful this old mill building could be as it was transformed into contemporary lofts.  The realism and detail are remarkable -- even today people confuse the renderings with photos of our model units!”
- Arah Schuur, Director of Planning and Development, MassInnovation LLC. Details:

Oculus

Description:

Oculus
Oculus is the first “design launch” of Schopfer Yachts LLC. This 250-foot vessel was designed by E. Kevin Schopfer, founder and owner of his namesake company.Designed to accommodate 12 guests in extraordinary comfort and style, Oculus is a long distance cruising yacht capable of speeds upwards of 25 knots. The exterior styling is representative of the jaw and eye socket bone structure of large oceanic fish and mammals. Featuring a dramatic reverse bow configuration, the yacht’s armature balances an elegant expression of symmetry and structure.The interior features of Oculus focus on a 12 foot high ceiling the main salon, a cylindrical double height dining room, central stair and elevator tube, and seemingly anatomical ceiling and floor lighting extensions giving definition to the seating areas. The second level is the dedicated Owner’s suite. Living areas and bedchambers are divided by a series of four freestanding tubes, which house bath and storage necessities. In addition to the main common stair, the second Owner’s stair connects to the third level aft private salon and deck / water feature. The third level also contains the forward pilothouse and separate captain’s quarters. The generous open decks with separate water features are located forward and aft for convenient guest use.
A third tubular deck / balcony is suspended on the second level adjacent to the Owner’s suite.

Schopfer Yachts was founded in 2008 as a US based company dedicated to the pursuit of advanced yacht aesthetics and technology. Schopfer Yachts is among a new breed of yacht companies, which will secure strategic alliances with the world’s finest naval architects and shipyards. This strategy will allow the flexibility to explore a wide range of design venues while insuring these designs meet and exceed the highest level of maritime standards. As we enter the next generation of yachting design, we offer our design collection to the global yachting community and to perspective owners who share our vision of innovation and excellence.
Boston, Massachusetts
Sanibel Island, Florida
www.schopferyachts.com


Testimonial
I want to thank Tangram 3Ds for the wonderful work on the “Oculus”.
Your team’s patience, flexibility and interpretive skills allowed us to work through the inevitable search for detail refinement and overall options exploration.
Tangram 3D’s has captured the spirit of the design with remarkable clarity and precision.
As we continue to build up this fledgling company, I look forward to more “launches” with you and our company.

Many thanks again.

E. Kevin Schopfer
President
Schopfer Yachts, LLC

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Elkstone21

Description: Twenty-one luxury condominiums in Mountain Village-Telluride, Colorado.

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Tangram has taken our architectural drawings and vision, transformed them into realistic and beautiful renderings. They have been professional and
executed on time. It was nice to work with such a talented group of individuals.

For more information please visit the project website. Details:

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Description: In July of 2007, facility management officials from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Kittery, Maine, came to Tangram 3DS.  They were seeking a modern, high-tech presentation that would represent the expertise and skills of the yard's 200+ year history.  To that end, Tangram went to work creating a fully detailed model of Seavey's Island on which the yard is located, including nearly 300 unique buildings, dry docks, cranes, bridges, and other infrastructure elements.  It was understood by the entire team from the beginning that this would be the largest visualization project any of them had undertaken.

The Shipyard was founded in 1800, and many of the historic structures on the island are still in use to this day.  Tangram's work depended on a wide variety of resources, from modern civil survey CAD plans and digital photography to scans of original blueprints that were stored in Naval archives.  Each structure was modeled individually, reviewed by PNSY's facility managers for accuracy, and then positioned on a 3D contoured model of the island.  In addition to the full island model, Tangram was asked to produce more than 50 perspective renderings of both future proposed buildings and existing renovations.

In June of 2008, Tangram commissioned a helicopter flight and a videographer to shoot high-definition aerial footage of the island.  The film would serve as the introduction for the presentation, introducing the audience to the yard, it's proximity to the historic city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and easy access to both the I-95 Interstate corridor and the Atlantic Ocean.
Tangram's team stabilized and motion tracked the 5-minute flight path and composited its 3D island model into the video, allowing future updates to be shown animated and in context of its surroundings.

Tangram worked closely with PNSY for 9 months to complete the model and building renderings before the first images of the entire island were able to be produced.  Utilizing the Navy photography and photos taken during Tangram's helicopter flight, the island's surface and buildings were fully textured.  Finally, over 3,000 trees were planted on the model before its final images were produced, bringing the island's total poly-count to just under 9 million.

All the materials were then wrapped into a Flash presentation with a comprehensive interactive interface, allowing PNSY officials to elegantly convey data on all of the island's maintenance and construction projects.
The presentation is a vision of the future, a vision that is intended to maintain PNSY's reputation of excellence in the field for many decades to come.

In 1800, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is the oldest continuously operated shipbuilding facility built by the United States Navy.  Originally used for warship construction, the yard has been on the cutting edge of sail, steam, and nuclear vessel technology since its inception.  Beginning in World War I, the yard exclusively built submarines for the U.S. Navy, including this historic Albacore in 1953, widely renown for being the first modern attack sub design.  The yard christened its last new vessel in 1969, and has since operated as the Navy's premiere base for maintaining and servicing its nuclear sub fleet. Details:

Absentee Shawnee Tribe Healthcare Facility

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Stringtown Casino

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Concepts

Dudley Square Competition

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111 Fountain Street

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Atlantic City Holocaust Memorial Competition

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Tangram 3DS recently partnered with Luca Andrisani on a submission for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial (ACBHM, Inc.) Competition. Andrisani came to Tangram for multiple views of his design, seeking to refine his ideas through a collaborative relationship with our team.

Andrisani's design features an infinity pool that cascades in several channels down the sides of the structure and is lit at night. The pool reflects the sea and sky and visually unifies the pavilion with its surroundings. The interior features LED strips embedded in the wood plank decking, casting a soft glow that invites passersby to come inside and rest. There they will notice a photo-mosaic graphic of the Tree of Life printed into the concrete ceiling, featuring thousands of photos of holocaust survivors taken years after.

The ACHBM, a non-profit organization, seeks to present a prominently located memorial at the site of an existing seaside pavilion. This location has an estimated 10 million visitors each year and is viewed as an ideal spot for a vivid visual statement that will speak to people of all races and origins. The intention of the committee is to foster awareness and commemorate rather than explain or depict the Holocaust.

This international, two-stage design competition consists of a digitally submitted first round to be judged anonymously with six to ten finalists qualifying for stage two. All presentations will be publicly exhibited and judged at a convocation of the jurors. These jurors include  Daniel Libeskind, B.Arch. M.A. BDA AIA, the first Cultural Ambassador for Architecture appointed by the U.S. Department of State, and Dr. Michael Berenbaum, a Professor of Jewish Studies and Project Director for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Testimonial

Tangram 3DS was a vital component for the visualization of our ideas. With the support of their design-savvy and architecturally educated team we were able to create beautiful images and push our design even further. I would strongly recommend Tangram 3DS to anyone looking for customized solutions to their multimedia design needs.

Luca Andrisani
Owner
Andrisani Design, New York, NY
 

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Elliot Hospital Expansion

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Flight 93 National Memorial

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Harbour Hill / Hilton Garden Inn Portsmouth

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Islington Street Retail Elevation

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Jumeirah Beach Club Resort

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Tasked with expanding and modernizing the Jumeirah Beach Club Resort in Dubai, the team of architects at TRO Jung|Brannen enlisted Tangram 3DS to produce highly detailed images of the overall development plan.  The design team focused on producing two different proposals.  Both would include the addition of a large hotel, reconfiguration of the existing recreational facilities, and new beach villas.

Tangram recreated the existing facility from aerial photographs and modeled various iterations of the proposed buildings based on sketches from the architects. Details:

The Provident Bank

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The Westin Providence

Description: Project Description
This project was a 400,000 GSF mixed-use tower expansion to the Westin Providence Hotel.  200 hotel guestroom addition to the existing Westin with 12,000 GSF ground-floor retail/restaurant, 102 condominiums, and 150 private parking spaces.  Designed to the latest International Energy Code, with CIP concrete structure, brick and precast enclosure, insulated low-e windows and terrace doors, and Energy Star appliances.

Tangram was involved at the project’s inception, reproducing the existing Westin Providence as well as the surrounding city blocks and architecture in a 3D computer model.  The new Residencies Tower was refined over the course of the project until the city and owners were satisfied with its design.  This long-term collaboration made it possible for Tangram to deliver revised renderings on-demand throughout the design phase, with the final renderings available to the owners for sales and marketing use.

The Residences at The Westin Providence

Client Testimonial
"We worked closely and intensively with Tangram 3DS on the Westin beginning with the schematic design through final client and city regulatory approvals.  This schedule was demanding and often required collaboration and production within a short turnaround to meet city-imposed project deadlines.  Working with Tangram 3DS was the best solution for this process, with Tangram being able to intuitively respond to design team changes from (often) sketchy information.  Our office continues to work with Tangram 3DS on most of our design projects."
- L. Glenn Allen, Senior Associate, TRO Jung|Brannen Details:

Media One Tower

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The Media One Tower, also referred to as the Al Jaber Tower, is a 43-storey, 41,250 square meter mixed-use tower comprised of a 267-bedroom four star business hotel with bars, restaurants, a health club, conference facilities, twenty floors of office space and seven floors of podium parking for over 800 cars.

Inspired by the digital environment and technology of Media City, the dynamic glass and steel tower with angled windows is designed as a uniquely kinetic skin that will create an ever-changing rhythm of light as it captures the sun moving across the sky, reflections from the sea and from internal and external illumination during the night.

During the design phase, the project architects at TRO Jung|Brannen worked closely with Tangram 3DS to deliver up-to-date renderings, and the finished products were used by the owners for sales and marketing.

Client Testimonial
"Tangram 3DS has the state-of-the-art tools and in-house expertise, which has enabled TRO J|B to fully realize the potential of any given project.  It’s been a real pleasure to work with a firm with such talent and professionalism."
- Joe Mamayek, AIA, Director of Architectural Design, TRO Jung|Brannen, Inc. Details:

Proposed Development - Northeast U.S.A.

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Puma Corporate Offices Concept

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Bali 2010: Marine Research Center Competition

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Tangram 3DS recently partnered with architect Alfonso Lopez of   Solus4  on a submission for the Bali 2010: Marine Research Center Competition. Tangram worked collaboratively with Lopez throughout the design process to create numerous views of his vision. The competition, proposed by Arquitectum and Universitas Pelita Harapan in Indonesia, seeks to address the need for tsunami research and preparation in response to the devastation caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Arquitectum organizes international competitions that bring together architects and public or private organizations seeking diverse and innovative concepts for upcoming projects.Tangram's team worked closely with Lopez, producing imagery that allowed for constant refinement of his design.  Brainstorming sessions and sketches were transformed into realistic renderings that were used for critique and clarification of ideas.Lopez's proposal uses the elliptical pattern and cross section diagram of a tsunami wave as its conceptual basis. This results in an aesthetically imposing form that seamlessly integrates with its aquatic environment.Lopez's design features underwater labs, an aquatic garden, sea water pool, swimming pool terrace, bar and an auditorium. With spaces located above and under water, scientists can take full advantage of the incredible landscape surrounding the project. The center will also serve as a model for sustainable design with its use of tidal wave energy generation, natural ventilation, rain water collection, passive solar energy, and high reflectance fiber glass materials.

 

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Maritime

New Orleans Arcology Habitat (NOAH)

Description: Tangram 3DS, a firm specializing in visualization and computer animation, announced it’s collaboration with E. Kevin Schopfer AIA, RIBA. Together, the companies have designed and presented a bold new urban platform. New Orleans Arcology Habitat (NOAH) is a proposed urban Arcology (architecture and ecology), whose philosophic underpinnings rest in combining large scale sustainability with concentrated urban structures, and in this case a floating city.

Tangram 3DS worked with Schopfer to visualize this unique concept and structure. Starting from basic sketches, Tangram 3DS transformed Schopfer’s ideas into visuals and an animation. “Our work helps Kevin convey his concept to the City of New Orleans, investors, the media, and public,” said Stefan Vittori, president and founder of Tangram 3DS, LLC. “To be able to visualize a design project in 3D and through animation is absolutely vital when attempting to sell a design concept that may at first glance be hard to grasp,” adds Vittori.

Why a floating city? There are three major challenges to building in New Orleans. The first challenge is to overcome both the physical and psychological damages of recurring severe weather patterns. Though repopulation has begun, the need to provide a stabilized and safe environment is paramount to a long-term recovery and economic well being of New Orleans. The second challenge is that New Orleans has been built at and below sea levels, which creates a consistently high water table and makes it prone to flooding and storm surges. The third challenge is that New Orleans is built on soil condition that consists of thousands of feet of soft soil, silt and clay.  These conditions make building large-scale concentrated structures difficult. “Believing that NOAH is a viable plan, our solution to overcome these challenges is to take advantage of these seemingly conflicting issues with the introduction of a floating urban platform. This solution is deceptively simple, using water as a controlled, naturally occurring, bearing foundation, is perfectly feasible and practical,” states Schopfer.

As depicted in the 3D renderings by Tangram, given the design's massive scale -- nearly 1,200' tall with a footprint nearly 1/3 of a mile in diameter -- it was clear that Tangram's imagery would need to depict a significant amount of downtown New Orleans to contextualize the project.  A 3D model of the downtown buildings was combined with satellite and aerial survey imagery to build a highly-detailed context model in which NOAH could be placed. This allowed Tangram to create a wide range of imagery, including aerials that covered dozens of city blocks, which effectively communicated the ambitious scale of the NOAH project.

When it came time to produce the animation, the massive scene scale combined with the river and dense activity of the area were extremely challenging to reproduce faithfully in motion.  Tangram teamed up with the team at VFX Direct, located north of Boston, to further polish the animation frames.  The two teams worked closely to build passes of animated elements that VFX Direct would include in their final composite of the animation, along with additional water, smoke, and lighting effects that made the imagery pop.  

A triangulate shape has been chosen as the basis for NOAH, given the fact that a triangle is inherently the most rigid of all structural framing systems. The triangle also allows for an “open” frame configuration, dividing NOAH into three separate “towers” converging at the top.  The intent of this open system is to allow all severe weather to in effect “blow through” the structure in any direction with the minimum of massing interference. To further dissipate wind loads, the outer edges are curved and tilted.

“This is a project of tremendous potential which pushes beyond current expectations for New Orleans and places it in the forefront of the new age of urban growth possibilities,” adds Schopfer. “We hope to one day see it become reality, and with Tangram's unique experience and expertise, that reality comes alive today.”


NOAH will house:
-  Residential Units / Rental and Condominium: 20,000 units @ average 1100 Sq ft
-  Three Hotels: Average 200 rooms plus associated services
-  Time Share Units: 1500 units @ average 1100 sq ft
-  Three Casino Facilities: (to be determined)
-  Commercial Space / Rental and Condominiums: 500,000 sq ft
-  Commercial Space / Retail: 500,000 sq ft
-  Parking Garage / within foundation: 8,000 cars
-  Cultural Facilities: 100,000 sq ft
-  Public Works: 50,000 sq ft / includes storage
-  District School System: 100,000 sq ft
-  District Administrative Office: 50,000 sq ft
-  District Health Care Facility: 20,000 sq ft

Estimated Total Square Footage: 30 million Details:

Boston Arcology (BOA)

Description: Highlights of the Boa:

* It will be capable of housing 15,000 people distributed in hotels, offices, retail, museums, condominiums, and a new city hall.
* The massing of Boa takes its cue from the built environment of Boston proper and as such exudes a rigorous geometric format. That format is further emphasized by the scaling of the golden rectangle whose proportions are: 1: 1.618.
* Within this golden rectangle, Boa’s design alignments have a unique relationship with the Boston common.
What appear to be random projections of massing are actually fashioned as a vertical construct of the “common.” These diagonals are held in check by a fixed border as if a rigid urban edge.
* Because of its scale, Boa is positioned perpendicular to the waterfront, preserving view corridors and general development massing.
* Sky gardens will be inserted into the three main towers every 30 floors. These sky gardens provide landscaped glass enclosed atria. In addition to their practical application of additional sunlit units, the “sky gardens” will create a sense of neighborhood presence and support a range         of sustainable initiatives.  Vertical commuting within Boa will be supported by a series of local and express transfer floors.
* Boa is geared to an all pedestrian environment. Accordingly, only select horizontally based areas will be fitted with moving walkways and/or electric train carriers.
* Boa is designed to expand the horizon of sustainability and will seek LEED certification.
* Boa will eliminate the need for cars within the urban structure to create a carbon neutral entity. Some of these elements are secured wind turbines, fresh water recovery and storage systems, passive glazing system, sky garden heating/cooling vents, gray water treatment, solar array banding panels, and harbor based water turbines.
* A massive park system platform (pedestrian only) will be more than double the current green space allocation for the waterfront of Boston.

Boa is a floating city within a city, and is technically feasible, with the method as follows:
The foundation of Boa is a series of poured concrete cells, which are combined to form a buoyant platform. The grid of these cells serves as the foundation for the rigid steel Superstructure
* Though seemingly counter-intuitive, concrete is in fact a viable and durable floating solution. Oil rigs, barges, and even ships from WWII all employed this use of concrete to create buoyant objects. With new self sealing concrete, and other technologies, such structures can be monitored indefinitely.
* By proportional height, width, length, and weight, this buoyant platform is estimated to 90 feet, with an additional 15 feet of “buffer.” Assuming approximately 30-40 ft current depth in the ocean bed, a “retaining pool” would be sunk into the harbor, giving a waterline to base dimension of 105 feet. This becomes the fixed “pool” in which Boa floats as water seeks its own level.
* Boa is proposed as a three phase master plan. Though capable of program changes and opportunities, the project is geared to a ten year build-out. Because it is built in the harbor, it will have minimum impact on existing functions. Further, Boa is designed not to encroach on existing channels. Details:

he Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY)

Description: In July of 2007, facility management officials from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Kittery, Maine, came to Tangram 3DS.  They were seeking a modern, high-tech presentation that would represent the expertise and skills of the yard's 200+ year history.  To that end, Tangram went to work creating a fully detailed model of Seavey's Island on which the yard is located, including nearly 300 unique buildings, dry docks, cranes, bridges, and other infrastructure elements.  It was understood by the entire team from the beginning that this would be the largest visualization project any of them had undertaken.

The Shipyard was founded in 1800, and many of the historic structures on the island are still in use to this day.  Tangram's work depended on a wide variety of resources, from modern civil survey CAD plans and digital photography to scans of original blueprints that were stored in Naval archives.  Each structure was modeled individually, reviewed by PNSY's facility managers for accuracy, and then positioned on a 3D contoured model of the island.  In addition to the full island model, Tangram was asked to produce more than 50 perspective renderings of both future proposed buildings and existing renovations.

In June of 2008, Tangram commissioned a helicopter flight and a videographer to shoot high-definition aerial footage of the island.  The film would serve as the introduction for the presentation, introducing the audience to the yard, it's proximity to the historic city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and easy access to both the I-95 Interstate corridor and the Atlantic Ocean.  Tangram's team stabilized and motion tracked the 5-minute flight path and composited its 3D island model into the video, allowing future updates to be shown animated and in context of its surroundings.

Tangram worked closely with PNSY for 9 months to complete the model and building renderings before the first images of the entire island were able to be produced.  Utilizing the Navy photography and photos taken during Tangram's helicopter flight, the island's surface and buildings were fully textured.  Finally, over 3,000 trees were planted on the model before its final images were produced, bringing the island's total poly-count to just under 9 million.

All the materials were then wrapped into a Flash presentation with a comprehensive interactive interface, allowing PNSY officials to elegantly convey data on all of the island's maintenance and construction projects.  The presentation is a vision of the future, a vision that is intended to maintain PNSY's reputation of excellence in the field for many decades to come.

In 1800, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is the oldest continuously operated shipbuilding facility built by the United States Navy.  Originally used for warship construction, the yard has been on the cutting edge of sail, steam, and nuclear vessel technology since its inception.  Beginning in World War I, the yard exclusively built submarines for the U.S. Navy, including this historic Albacore in 1953, widely renown for being the first modern attack sub design.  The yard christened its last new vessel in 1969, and has since operated as the Navy's premiere base for maintaining and servicing its nuclear sub fleet. Details:

Kojak 100-jack up platform

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Nearshore Geotechnical Services

Client Testimonial

Tangram have done a marvellous job in producing a high quality rendering of one of our newest investments for the nearshore market. The subsequent marketing using the image has already paid dividends with new projects coming in. The turn around time and ability of the team to transform engineering drawings and abstract ideas into a clear and realistic picture is really impressive. Thanks the Tangram Team.

Jonathan
Manager Nearshore and Special Projects
GEMS Survey Limited
www.gems-group.com

Services
Geotechnical drilling
Wireline in-situ testing and sampling to depths of 200m below seabed
Cone Penetration Tests (CPT)
Sampling and soils analys
Equipment
Vessels and equipment operate at depths as shallow as 16m
Range of jack up platforms (28-36m leg length)
GEMS’ new built jack up Kojak 100
Seabed and surfzone rig
D8 Sumatec 400
Heave compensated system
Special Projects
Ports and harbours construction support surveys
Wind farms
Bridge, tunnel, and pipeline crossings
Landfalls, outfalls, intake systems
Nearshore sustainable energy construction surveys

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Harvest City

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Contacts

Location

21 Rogers Road
Kittery, ME 03904

(207) 439 9500 phone

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