ZOA Studio

In competitions, juries glance at the imagery first and the plans second, which makes photorealistic rendering a credibility signal.

As our Lead CG Artist Péter Kollár puts it, "If I hesitate and wonder whether it's a real photograph, that's when I know the image is doing its job."

Read our interview from earlier this year, where Péter and Mohamed break down how photorealism earns the trust of juries and stakeholders through precision and taste.

Interview: https://bit.ly/4f3YcTe

Still worth a read.

Péter and Mohamed on why photorealism reads as credibility → https://bit.ly/4f3YcTe

Last year, ZOA Studio was named "Rendering Artist of the Year" at the 2025 Architizer Vision Awards, and a Finalist for "Architectural Videographer of the Year."

With entries from over 50 countries and a field including studios like Binyan, Brick, and Arqui9, it's recognition we don't take lightly.

The winning portfolio brought together work we're deeply proud of: Snøhetta's New Museum Quarter for Bolzano and Not a Hotel Rusutsu, plus imagery for Zaha Hadid Architects, Gensler, and UNS.

But awards are never really about the studio. They belong to our team, whose craft makes these images, and to our clients, whose trust lets us tell architectural stories around the world.

Explore the award-winning portfolio
🔗 https://bit.ly/43TS8GO

Between 2023 and 2025, we delivered more than a hundred major animation and visualization projects across MENA, from desert megacities to next-generation airports.

We were fortunate enough to work with Emaar, Reportage, Zaha Hadid Architects, UNS, and KCA across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Saudi Arabia.

Read our conversation with Bence Falussy and Botond Sass on how the MENA region actually moves: https://bit.ly/4oO1QEj

For École Buissonnière, we refreshed the competition set last year.

Example of competition-stage and approval-stage visualizations for a four-volume school, gymnasium, and pool scheme.

dl-c designlab-construction | Echandens, Switzerland

École Buissonnière Swiss School Competition Renders | ZOA ZOA Studio's competition and 2025 refreshed renderings for École Buissonnière, dl-c's timber school complex in Echandens, Switzerland.

Animation is usually the last thing scoped in work, even though it's the piece that actually carries the launch.

For Baku we delivered one of our largest packages for a product launch to Reportage Properties and BRABUS in March.

22 sequences cut into a 50-second signature animation, plus 13 exterior and 10 interior frames, in weeks.

Take the full tour: https://bit.ly/3R7lTkx

Most architectural icons, including Nathalie de Vries, co-founder of MVRDV, began their careers in a pressure cooker: a Monday brief, a Friday deadline, and no room for anything less than their best.

Read how ZOA's Mariia Lazaryk sees this phenomenon, and thrives inside the competition sprint.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4oPychW

A large timber surface is never uniform. Every plank has its own grain, knots, and density. When such a surface is built from a single repeated texture, the eye catches it instantly.

That was the challenge on École Buissonnière, the remarkable campus designed by dl-c for the Commune of Echandens, in Switzerland, through an anonymous two-stage open competition.

Explore the project if you missed it this month, and discover a variety of past competition entries on our site in which timber played the leading role.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4vup3O6

Seeing this for the first time? Our 2026 Animation REEL is live!

From interiors to skyscrapers, and the video work named an Architizer Finalist.

🍿Catch the full reel and credits: https://bit.ly/3Srvmnj

In case you missed it: our we made with Paragram Stúdió show Nyugati tér without its flyover and the Lehel Square church freed from the asphalt around it, all stitched into one transfer-free tram corridor in , Hungary.

Architectural visualization did its real work here, showcasing the project and supporting its public reveal by Hungary's Minister of Transport and Investment, Dávid Vitézy, then carrying it into local press from Telex and Portfolio to Építészfórum.

Worth another look.

Pesti Fonódó Renders Enter Hungary's Transport Debate | ZOA ZOA Studio's visualization series for the Pesti Fonódó tram concept, Budapest's proposed Deák–Lehel corridor, developed with Paragram Stúdió.