Our sister site SkyriseCities.com recently toured the Toronto offices of model maker Peter McCann, who has crafted the pre-construction scale models for notable projects around the world, including the Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest structure.

Inside McCann's studio, image by Jack Landau

When Peter McCann got into the architectural model making business over 30 years ago, there were no computers in his shop. "Everything had to be done by hand," McCann told SkyriseCities on a recent visit to his Toronto studio. "We would get blueprints in from the architects and they’d ask for a certain scale for the model." In the early days, these blueprints would arrive in different scales and McCann would draft his own uniform set of drawings to build each model.

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