Lendlease | One Darling Point

Client: Lendlease

Services: Development application support, marketing photography, panoramic photography, render backplate capture, viewline analysis

Some clients become long-term partners. Lendlease and Skymonkey have been working together on One Darling Point for over two years, and in that time we’ve been involved from the very beginning through to active sales.

We came on board early, supporting the development application with aerial imagery that helped establish the project’s context within the surrounding harbour environment. Getting a DA across the line in Sydney requires clear, accurate visual documentation of the site and its relationship to everything around it. That’s where the relationship started.

From there it grew into almost everything else. A development of this calibre on Sydney Harbour needs imagery that sells the lifestyle, the views, and the address. We’ve been up there multiple times capturing the Sydney cityscape in the detail that does justice to what buyers are actually paying for. Panoramic photography across the site. Backplate imagery for CGI and visualisation studios to composite into their renders.

But the job that pushed us hardest was the viewline analysis.

Prospective buyers at a development like this want certainty about what they’ll see from their apartment. Confirming those views isn’t a matter of hovering a drone at roughly the right height and taking a guess. It means positioning the aircraft at the precise elevation of each floor, matched to the actual floor-to-ceiling geometry of the building, and verifying sight lines to specific points across the city.

To do it properly we used RTK positioning alongside the Mavic 3 Enterprise, and cross-referenced our heights against the surrounding buildings to confirm accuracy. Getting those surrounding building heights right meant coordinating beyond just our own data. It was methodical, painstaking work. But when a buyer is making a decision based on what they’ll see every morning, the analysis has to be right.