Yes Liam, This is what some constructors do. They usually do not pay for the design as they think this is a waste of money. Some builders after some while think they know how to design, so they bypass the design and start building. Then they decide about the facade. They think this is the only place an architect is needed. This is very chaotic IMO and in reality, they have to pay for many "redo"s as they face many conflicts between MEP and architecture. They pay for those demolition works and do not consider it as a waste of money but they do not pay for the design. This is very chaotic but the prevailing construction culture here, unfortunately.
maybe it is because Architecture in its modern term, is rather new here compared to civil engineers. Years ago almost all design jobs were done by civil engineers. It takes time to change such an odd culture.

Oh yes, otherwise it would be a real nightmare to texture such a thing.

Thanks for sharing. Yet my resource images are BW and I change them due to the composition needs.

Thanks, mates, This is heart-warming! I was thinking of having one-on-one sessions, in case anyone is interested in drawing/watercolor.

I know it is odd to design a facade apart from the plan/building but it has become a norm here. recently I had a facade design suggestion and here is the result.
Changes on the 1st floor has been due to the client.
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The rusted one... It seems a nightmare to be textured!

And here is another shot from the Grand Hotel.
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here is a detail from the painting.

I started painting old Tehran.

@jo-ke I am wondering how do you do the texturing!

Now I am available for one-on-one sessions. Please do not hesitate to reach me out for drawing or watercolor sessions:
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Here is the model to play with:
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@tuna1957 Thanks mate. It is a basic course, by the way it may provides you with a few minutes of creative and quality time!
Feel free to share, please!

Fine render.
Yet time to revise construction codes, tastes, or details... I am wondering why they repeat the same style/material/construction skills... while witnessing that is vulnerable to fire... It is like making iglos in tropical climate, just because I used to iglos....

I will watch the video, yet years ago I read a book on quantum physics (by Alastair I. M. Rae). Due to the book, The thing is that the "observer effect" happens on micro-scale (and one suggestion to upscale it is the Schrödinger's cat hypothesis).
Due to the book if I remember, our world has started by an intangible division on micro scale, and all successive creatures are the result of micro-scale incidents. So basically our world is the result of micro incidents.
If those tiny incidents were different, the result would be another world in another level/time—maybe still dinosaurs were alive. Or if those micro incidents were faster, we would be in another level of knowledge, civilization, and technology.
and here is the fun part:
As the observer makes the reality (on micro-scale, and our world or other possible worlds are an accumulation of those observations), the "PROPER OBSERVER" can witness whatever world they anticipate...
it means that the world of UFOs and dinosaurs are there waiting for the proper observer to realize them...

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Inspiring! Thanks for sharing!

Great render, and HAPPY NEW YEAR ( I wonder why you exclude New Zealanders!)

Thank you mates and HAPPY NEW YEAR, my friends!

@Mike-Amos Thank you, mate. It all started by an image from Lisa Glanz and was a personal challenge to learn how to "texture paint" such a model.
Not very similar, but.. :
https://www.lisaglanz.com/blog/character-drawing-challenge-12-skating-bear/

@majid This is my most complicated organic modeling job so far.