Client
CAES Architecture
Industry
Architecture
Year
2026
Timeline
8 weeks
Team
3 specialists
01 / The brief
CAES is an architecture practice with towers, hotels, and villas on its books, and a portfolio that lived in PDFs. We built a dark, full-bleed site where the renders do the talking and every project reads like a walkthrough.
02 / The challenge
Architecture is judged on detail, and detail dies in compressed thumbnails. The site had to carry hundred-image projects at full quality without making visitors wait for them.
03 / The approach
One black canvas, edge-to-edge imagery, and a CMS the studio runs without us. Type stays out of the way of the buildings; performance work keeps the heavy renders instant.
+ Fig. 01 · Website in progress
04 / The impact
longer time spent on project pages
projects published through the CMS
median load on image-heavy pages
05 / Palette
Click a swatch to copy its hex
06 / Deliverables
“ Clients move through the site the way they walk our buildings: slowly, and all the way through. ”
Founding partner · CAES Architecture
07 / How we got there
01 /
Immerse
A week inside the archive: every project, render, and drawing on the table.
02 /
Structure
A project model that fits towers and villas alike, in two languages.
03 /
Design
A black canvas and a type system that defers to the architecture.
04 /
Build
CMS, image pipeline, and a launch the studio now runs on its own.
+ Fig. 02 · Delivered system
The record · more proof, next door
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