Porto School of Architecture by Alvaro Siza
Model provided by MetroCubicoDigital
Blender 2.72 Cycles
Looks cool, the grass looks pretty realistic.
Extremely photo-realistic result!
Nice job! I agree, the grass is great; it’s my favorite part. 
great,pro work - grass is perfect for archviz.the background trees are modelled in?-you should write a “making of”
Home: http://metrocubicodigital.com/eng/project/faup-exteriors
CGS: http://metrocubicodigital.cgsociety.org/art/3ds-max-after-effects-vray-faup-bloco-h-3d-1012460/
TS scene: http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/scene-building-obj/632305#
Wonder what’s different since max v.2011 (patches of grass, trees, lighting…)? I find original more pleasing.
Thanks for the positive feedback.
@ burnin - Yes, this is the original model. They shared the scene for free on their facebook page a while ago. So I basically started with a obj model of the building. I made my own shaders, trees, patches of grass, flowers, lighting… I worked on this for learning and tests purposes. I wanted to see what could be done with cycles engine on an archviz scene.
To be honest, I also find the original more pleasing, but there is no shame in that, Jacinto Monteiro is kind of a CG Master! 
I think you did a great job with the lighting, you rarely see partial-cloudy scenes where the lighting is even close to real, so that’s a nice job.
Wonderful! 5 stars from me
Very good. I love the modern style yet classic placement.
I like the lighting. It has some sad tones, that’s what i like the most. Grass is very good, much better than original. it’s yours right?
Good job overall
Great work lenain34 … Can you please share the specs of the machine, on which this scene was rendered along with the render settings, node setup and render time? Thx.