The Giraffe Blog

Product updates, news, and tips from behind the canvas.

4/10/2023

Trammell Crow Company 'Weeks to hours'

Giraffe was rolled out to all of TCC’s offices in the U.S. Having Giraffe accessible to TCC’s development team will save weeks of work across hundreds of projects a year.

4/5/2023

Andrew Wallace - Trammell Crow Company

Andrew shares how he has used Giraffe on major projects in LA, building speed & clarity to his pursuits as well as storytelling and problem solving complex deals long after the feasibility stage.

4/5/2023

Watch the Summit in Full

Watch the Giraffe Creator Summit 2023

13/2/2023

Keynote Presentation: Giraffe CEO Rob Asher & Dr Caroline Noller of The Footprint Company

Rob shares the driving philosophies behind Giraffe's product decisions & has a frank discussion with trusted data partner The Footprint Companies' Dr Caroline Noller

20/1/2023

James Strutt - Property NSW, DPE

LandIQ is a collection of apps built on the Giraffe platform in partnership with the NSW Government, WSP Australia and Aerometrex. James Strutt shares how his team has guided the project's success & detail on some real use cases.

19/1/2023

Nadine Fournier - Landerz

Landerz is building a land marketplace like no other. Listen to Nadine share how Giraffe fits into their story.

19/1/2023

Steven Sharp - Urbanize Chief Editor & Cofounder

Steven is the Chief Editor & CoFounder of Urbanize a passion project turned media empire focused on urban development.

10/1/2023

Introduction to Flow Builder

The generative design editor in Giraffe takes simple geometries, like a cube or a line, and turns them into complex geometries, like apartment blocks, using a dendrogram system.

10/1/2023

Introduction to Live Cursors

Collaboration is now even better with live cursors.

10/1/2023

Introduction to Lens

Welcome to the next generation of GIS interrogation in Giraffe. Introducing Lens: bringing intuitive filtering and styling controls to your map data and project portfolio.

10/1/2023

Nettleton Tribe make Giraffe 'Feasibility Tool of Choice'

how one firm uses Giraffe

10/1/2023

NSW cuts months from land assessment times

“We’re cutting down from weeks or months to a day or days in terms of that analysis – to find the site and take a site design and layout” - James Strutt.‍

10/1/2023

Sometimes we go deep

We've spent a lot of time building a wide platform. But for some problems - we go deep into a solution.

10/1/2023

Why are computers so frustrating?

Almost no CAD or BIM tools are fit for early stage design: too slow, too cumbersome. The return on time investment is just not there. Even doing the calcs by hand, or excel separately is still easier, and clearer, than managing the kruft that is included in most CAD packages.

10/1/2023

Urban AI

Giraffe, UDIA, UNSW and COX Architecture have built a computational design model that generates built form based on a combination of constraints layers and parameters like FSR, height of building and setbacks.

10/1/2023

Why We Partnered with Urbanize

Today, Giraffe is excited to announce its partnership with Urbanize

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