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Architectural

Rush Street at Chicago River

Rush Street at the Chicago River

Another illustration done for the “Friends of the Chicago River” project. Randal illustrated what could be done at the southern end of Rush Street in Chicago, where it dead ends into the Chicago River. This view showed an outdoor eating area, a dancing area on a barge, plantings, walkways and other amenities to make creative [...]

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Streetscape Scene for CNA

Street-scape Scene for CNA

Randal was commissioned by CNA Insurance company to illustrate this “main street” USA street-scape scene for a company publication. The work was done using a Mac and Wacom tablet with “Painter” software.

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Skyscraper Design

Randal Birkey's Skyscraper Tower Design

Randal Birkey created this urban skyscraper tower design as a personal architectural design and illustration exercise. This version of his design was rendered in watercolor on D’Arches watercolor board.

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Redfearn Development Streetscape

Redfearn Streetscape

A graphic designer from the Marietta, South Carolina area contacted Randal in 2003 through this portfolio website and inquired about developing a streetscape illustration to be used in promoting a residential housing development. Randal worked with the designer and the photo resources provided by the developers and architects to create this illustration intended to communicate [...]

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Prairie Style House

Prairie Style House

Randal was commissioned by a real estate development firm to develop this architectural rendering of a residential design being offered in a development in Chicago’s near South Loop area. This was to be new construction offered in the Prairie School style, popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright. Randal first worked from architectural drawings to develop a [...]

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Great Pyramids, Egypt

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Randal did a series of ancient structure illustration for a textbook publisher in the 1980’s. The series included this wax pencil on croquil board line art illustration of the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt.

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Fulton House

Fulton House - Chicago River

Back in the 1980’s a Chicago developer bought the old ice cold storage building at 345 North Canal Street on the Chicago River. The building was converted to condominiums based upon a plan and design by Chicago architect Harry Weese. Randal did this line and color pencil rendering of the building just after it was [...]

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First Bank Place Interior Lobby

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Randal was commissioned to produce this 3D wireframe illustration for a fellow architectural perspectivist in the 1980’s. The view is of the interior rotunda lobby of First Bank Place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The address of the completed building is 201 6th Street South, Minneapolis, MN, and it was designed by the world famous architect, I.M. [...]

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Quantum Graphics Aerial Perspective Cutaway

Quantum Graphics Aerial Perspective Cutaway

Randal was commissioned by Rich Nickel Design to create an aerial perspective cutaway illustration of a client printing facility. The client was Quantum Graphics, located in suburban Chicago, Illinois.  Randal first worked from architectural blueprint drawings to construct a 3D perspective wireframe of the building and the interior components that were to be revealed in [...]

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Loft Lobby Interior

Loft Lobby Interior

Randal was commission by a real estate development company in Chicago called Loft, to illustrate the lobby of an industrial building being converted to residential “loft” condos in the 1980’s. There was no way to take reference photos of the site, so Randal worked from architectural blueprints to construct a 3D wireframe model of the [...]

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