Painting of the main courtyard for the “Mountain View Civic Center” competition entry

Invited design competition entry. One of five invited entries and winner of first round selection process. The project with 100,000 square feet of total area of construction included: a) the new City Hall building 65,000 sq.ft.; b) Community Theater with ...

Gouache final painting for the main interior courtyard of the Mountain View Civic Center, prepared for the invited design competition. The dominant feature of the painting is the frieze of the blue ceramic bas-relief horses around the main courtyard.

A large collage painting prepared as a study for the final presentation-board to be exposed at the competition exhibit; used for illustrating the special character of the main courtyard .

Two early color studies of the main plaza area. One study is realized on paper using color markers and the other, on a photocopied sketch of the interior plaza perspective view painted with gouache paints .

Four views of the watercolor painting, showing the main courtyard of the Civic Center, submitted with the design competition entry package; one of them is a close-up view.

Early study on a board, a colored collage painting of the main plaza .

The watercolor painting of the main plaza in a cropped view.

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