Chicago area

Walsh-Higgins Office Building

Walsh-Higgins Office Building by Randal Birkey - thumbnail

Randal was retained by a real estate development company in Chicago called Walsh-Higgins, to render a proposed office building to be located next to the Walgreens headquarters in the northern suburbs of Chicago. The architectural design blueprint drawings were provided. Randal first created a 3D wirefame model of the building on his Mac using a [...]

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Wacker Drive Streetscape

Wacker Drive Streetscape - © Randal Birkey

In the 1980′s Randal shared office space with an architectural and planning firm called Boyer, Hoppe & Associates. This firm had a client comprised of the major tenants along Wacker Drive, one of Chicago’s more famous business streets, as it follows the east and south side of the Chicago River. Along Wacker Drive are buildings [...]

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Shedd Aquarium & Oceanarium Campus Map

Shedd Aquarium & Oceanarium Campus Map © Randal Birkey

Randal Birkey was contacted by the world famous John G. Shedd Aquarium and Oceanarium in 1991, to illustrate their new campus map, and new facility floor plan based upon the major building expansion project they were completing. Based upon architectural and engineering blueprints, Randal constructed a new campus master plan in Adobe Illustrator, reflecting the [...]

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Parkway North Office Building Site Plan

Parkway North Center - Commercial Site Plan

Randal Birkey was commissioned by Chicago commercial real estate development firm LaSalle Partners to prepare a site plan of a new development in the northern suburbs of Chicago. This color study was done on neutral gray illustration board using color pencils.

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The Alter Group Site Plans

Alter Group Site Plans

During the 1980’s and into the early 1990’s, Randal Birkey created hundreds of maps, site plans, master plans and architectural renderings of real estate development projects by The Alter Group. The Alter Group has been a real estate developer in the Chicago area for over 50 years, responsible for many of the most prestigious business [...]

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