‘Accurate’ is a guide to the production of precise, reliable computer generated simulations of the urban environment. The guide makes recommendations for a code of practice in an unregulated industry, and outlines methodologies used and approved at both the Heron and London Bridge Tower Public Inquiries. The Inspector at the Heron Public Inquiry reported that “The inquiry has the benefit of the most accurate and advanced visual material ever presented. I would accept that the applicants have employed the market leaders in their field.”

Published in 2002, Book One charts the first decade of Hayes Davidson’s work from 1989 until 1999 with 80 full colour illustrations. Book One is available from architectural book shops including the RIBA, Tate Modern and Triangle bookshops in London, The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, and the Cube Gallery in Manchester. Book One costs £12.95 and can be ordered online from www.amazon.co.uk. Alternatively, please email publications@hayesdavidson.com

Book Two has 100 full colour examples of the work of the Hayes Davidson studio including images of architecture by Foster and Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership, Future Systems, Herzog and de Meuron and The Renzo Piano Workshop. Book Two is now available. To order, please email publications@hayesdavidson.com

‘Fast Forward’ is a short film that tests visual memory of the urban environment. Advanced computer graphics are composited with filmed panoramas of London. New buildings are added to the current skyline, and some existing buildings are moved or removed. The result is not only a taste of what the future could be but a reminder of how visual memory works and questions how robust, or not, our memory of the ‘cherished’ skyline is.

Hayes Davidson has researched visual memory and attitudes to urban change. ‘Skyline’ allows the user to compare different skylines while the system calculates the total ‘built’ developed area. In this way the user understands the connection between built form and the amount and size of the space that is proposed. By providing a fluid and dynamic canvas from which the skyline can be ‘built’, the system also tests memory and the users ability to accept visual change.