Fat Pencil Studio's latest bridge model entry goes upstream from Portland to Oregon City, where the 'Arch Bridge' has gracefully connected the shores of the Willamette for a little over a century.

Fat Pencil ventures beyond Portland for its latest bridge exploration.

The city and its landmarks as fashioned by developers and gamers both.

How a real-time 3d satellite tracker is driving public understanding of the need to address a looming environmental catastrophe in Earth orbit.

We compare detail levels for 4 different sources for terrain data– ranging from the built-in SketchUp terrain importer to Portland's hyper-detailed 1-foot contour map.

See our work in an online open house for Multnomah County's Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge project.

A SketchUp model helps illustrate design options and simulate traffic patterns.

Uh-oh! Rail operators have a generally good safety record, but accidents happen. The question is, are city agencies prepared to respond to a crude oil spill?

Eyal Weizman’s book, Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability discusses the divide between reality and possibility.

Beta test results for a game-changing SketchUp extension that generates context models in seconds.