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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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Minneapolis Business

Minneapolis Magazine Cover

This was a cover illustration for a Minneapolis business magazine, that ran a feature article on growing the downtown real estate business back in the 1980’s. The original was done in color pencil, but I seem to have lost that version, and only this black and white version survived.

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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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Stipple Style Site Plan

Stipple Style Site Plan - © Randal Birkey - thumbnail

Randal did many illustrations using a “stipple” ink line style in the early 1980’s before the Macintosh computer came along and changed the way business and print communications were done… the so-called “desktop publishing” revolution. This is an example of a real estate development site plan done by hand in stipple style, primarily because 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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Bethesda Maryland Map

Bethesda, Maryland City Map

The ad agency for a Maryland based real estate developer contacted Randal Birkey as the result of a web search. The agency required a map of the downtown area of Bethesda, Maryland, on which to locate many area amenities for a print brochure on a proposed new high-rise condominium project.
Randal created this digital watercolor map [...]

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Corporetum Master Plan

Corporetum Master Plan

A Chicago design firm was designing a printed marketing piece for a large commercial development along the I-88 expressway corridor, west of Chicago, near the Morton Arboretum. The marketing piece was to be used by the real estate brokers to attract large corporate clients to locate in the new “Corporetum” development as anchor tenants.
Randal Birkey [...]

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Steeplechase Location Map

Steeplechase Development Location Map

Randal Birkey was contracted to produce a line and watercolor map of the Atlanta, Georgia area, showing the location of a new proposed real estate development.

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Falling Water Master Site Plan

Falling Water Development Plan

This site plan map was done for Lipman-Hearne, a Chicago design firm that was designing print materials for a residential development for Pacific-Sakata, in the 1980’s. The development was called Falling Water, similar to the name of a famous Frank Lloyd Wright house in Pennsylvania. The design firm entered the printed piece in a design [...]

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