Skyline Apartment
- Project type
- Apartment interior
- Year
- 2026
- Service
- Interior Visualisation
The problem
Made in 2026 for a tile supplier, to show a large-format marble floor tile in a finished room. The tile has to read as stone across a whole floor, and the room has to hold its own against a bright skyline instead of becoming a dark frame around it.
Our approach
Interior and exterior are exposed together, the way the eye adjusts to a bright room rather than the way a single camera exposure records it. The pale marble floor tile carries the daylight deep into the room, and the darker kitchen wall anchors the left of the frame, so the eye travels across the living space and out to the city.
Look closely
Look at the towers in the far distance: they still hold detail in their highlights, while the marble floor and island in the foreground read as stone. A bright room and a bright city in one frame is something a single photograph cannot do, and it shows the tile in the light a buyer will see it in.
Rendering apartments for New South Wales projects
For an apartment that will be built in New South Wales, the Apartment Design Guide sets the minimum ceiling height for habitable rooms, living areas and kitchens included, at 2.7 metres. An interior like this is modelled to the room height on the sections, not a taller one that would make the room feel grander than the apartment buyers are contracting for.
Off-the-plan buyers in NSW also receive a proposed schedule of finishes with the contract, so the marble, the joinery and the tapware in the render are the ones on that schedule. Our guide to interior renders in Australia covers how to brief one.
Sources: NSW Planning, Apartment Design Guide Part 4 · NSW Government, Buying property off the plan
