3D Contemporary Architectural Visualization Designing

This connection with nature extends from the outdoor landscape to the indoor environment. Outside, local plants may be used to decorate, or the house may be designed around a prominent natural feature. Living roofs, in which plants are used as roofing materials to increase energy efficiency, are also becoming popular. Inside, natural materials like bamboo flooring and granite counter tops are common.

Features of a contemporary home thus may include, an irregular or unusually shaped frame, an open floor plan, oversized windows, the use of "green" components, a lack of ornamental details, or organic design.

Prominent contemporary architects include Frank Gehry, who designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao; John Andrews, who designed the CN Tower in Montreal; and Jean Novel, who designed the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. Over time, contemporary architecture has developed several offshoots, each with its own characteristics, including postmodernism, neomodernism, and deconstructionism, among others. Postmodern and neomodern architecture returned to the use of ornaments on the facade of building. Deconstructionism developed from postmodernism and is characterized by ideas of fragmentation.