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Built from the client's own data.
Not an artist's impression of a development — the development itself, built from the client's masterplan, survey and sales data. What appears on screen is what has been approved, phased and priced.
About CityView
Why CityView exists.
A development that exists only on paper is hard to sell. The physical model was the old answer — expensive, fixed, and out of date the moment a phase changed. CityView is the live one.
Our philosophy.
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Nothing pre-rendered.
The model is live. A client's question is answered while they are still asking it — filter by phase, drop into a plot, check what is still available — rather than deferred to a follow-up email.
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Made by a visualisation studio, not a software company.
Muharraqi Studios has built architectural visualisation since 2004. CityView came out of that work, which is why it is judged on how a development looks and feels, not only on what the system can do.
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Built in Bahrain, for this region.
Developed in Manama and installed across Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, in sales centres where projects are actually sold.
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One platform, still being built.
CityView has not stood still since 2018. Capability is added continuously, and most of it comes from what a client needed while presenting a real development. Nothing is retired to make room — the platform grows, and installed systems grow with it.
The story
Where it came from.
The studio started this product by asking how to improve a client's connection to a project using tools already familiar to everyone. The aim was something intuitive and instantly accessible.
Development began around 2016, and the first system went into a sales centre in 2018.
In development
What we are building into it.
Two directions are in development. The first is simulation — the ability to operate and experience an environment rather than only navigate it, already applied on a transport project and expanding from there. The second is history: using the same system to reconstruct landmarks and monuments as they once stood, and let a visitor move through them. A platform built to show what has not been built yet turns out to work just as well on what no longer exists.