This image was initially submitted to the Architizer vision award as a conceptual project; it all started with playing around with a model. This is a glimpse of the thought process: Images portraying architectural subjects, whether they be digital or photographs should have 1 main objective: They should draw the attention of the viewer. From this interaction, our brain silently generates a series of questions about the image: What is this place? Where is located? Is it built?
That's how you know that an image works. It makes you interested in the subject, it makes you curious about it.