Architecture/city building Inspiration 2024 [300+ links]
FOR MINECRAFT & BEYOND: Variety mix of architecture and design inspiration! Mainly modern, some abstract. Galleries, websites, magazines. If you are hungry for some inspiration, this list should help. Scroll through the headers. You can also join my Discord at the bottom for an image channel. A LOT of inspo.
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JAPANESE MINIMALISM
- Awaji-Yumebutai, Higashuira – Tadao Ando | Arquitectura Viva
- Sayama-ike Pond 狭山池
- Teshima Art Museum 豊島美術館 Ryue Nishizawa 西沢 立衛
- Zenbo Seinei 禅坊 靖寧 Shigeru Ban 坂 茂
- St. Mary’s Cathedral 東京カテドラル聖マリア大聖堂 Kenzō Tange 丹下 健三
- Osaka Prefectural Sayamaike Museum 大阪府立狭山池博物館 Tadao Ando 安藤 忠雄
- Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan – Wikipedia
- Project | Shin Takamatsu Architect and Associates / Spotlight: Kenzō Tange | ArchDaily
- Pagoda – Wikipedia
- Banaue Rice Terraces – Wikipedia
CHINESE SKYSCRAPERS
Also some other East Asian locations. There’s a lot of unique architecture, some with little coverage.
- Raffles City Chongqing – Wikipedia
- Mall dan Pencakar Langit Baharu Kuala Lumpur yang DISUMPAH oleh Masyarakat – YouTube
- Gate to the East – Wikipedia
- Steel structure large steel supermarket (sbssteelstructure.com)
- AsianTowers
- Liziba station, Chongqing : Infrastructure (reddit.com)
- This Colossal Apartment Building Is Home to Around 20,000 People (odditycentral.com)
- Hangzhou | Tag | ArchDaily
- Diamond Lotus by Vo Trong Nghia Architects | Inhabitat – Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building
- Why Nouvel 18 Will Remain A Timeless Classical Piece Of Architecture In The Years To Come – Condos And Commercial Spaces In Singapore (cos.sg)
- Daegu Wolbae IPARK – UNStudio
- Liziba station – Wikipedia / Gate Tower Building – Wikipedia
- Dancing Dragon Tower 1 – The Skyscraper Center
- Golden Mile Complex (nlb.gov.sg)
- Steam Community :: Dennie Mok :: Workshop Items
- Lippo Centre (Hong Kong) – Wikipedia
- Ramat Gan / Amdocs / Golden Pages
ARCHITECTURE SUBREDDITS
- Architecture (reddit.com)
- Cyberpunk – High Tech, Low Life. (reddit.com) / Cyberpunk Cities (reddit.com)
- Imaginary Architecture (reddit.com)
- Imaginary Cityscapes (reddit.com) / Imaginary Landscapes (reddit.com)
- SuperStructures (reddit.com)
- Brutalism (reddit.com) / Modernist Architecture (reddit.com) / Art Deco (reddit.com)
TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE
- Grand railway hotels of Canada – Wikipedia
- Monastery – Wikipedia / Dzong architecture – Wikipedia / Candi bentar – Wikipedia
- Mount Stuart House – Wikipedia / Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando – Wikipedia
- Campuses | ABOUT KINDAI | Kindai University
- Olsztyn Castle – Wikipedia
- Piero Portaluppi’s SKNE Company Skyscraper — On Verticality / The Metropolis of Tomorrow by Hugh Ferriss – Peter Harrington Journal / Unbuilt New York – Never Was (neverwasmag.com)
- Architectural landmarks in Copenhagen / Architecture in Vienna – vienna.info (wien.info)
- Valldemossa – Wikipedia
- Yakhchāl – Wikipedia
GENERAL SKYSCRAPERS
- Jean Nouvel completes red, white and blue skyscraper La Marseillaise (dezeen.com)
- Loews Philadelphia Hotel – PSFS – 3D Warehouse / The New York Times Building – Wikipedia
- World’s Tallest Towers (skyscraper.org) / The Skyscraper Museum / SkyscraperCity Forum
- Technopark Novosibirsk Akademgorodok Royalty-Free Images, Stock Photos & Pictures
- Skyline AFI Tower Belgrade – Wikipedia
- Vancouver. False Creek Photograph by Volodymyr Kyrylyuk – Fine Art America
- New Formalism | Jason R Woods | Architectural Photography
- Vienna, Modern – vienna.info (wien.info)
- The Skyscraper Center – Israel
HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS
- Ten buildings that showcase the beauty of London’s council housing (dezeen.com)
- Zed Strip Sheikh Zayed – Google Search
- References – Feldhaus Klinker (feldhaus-klinker.com)
- Denis Malygin Architecture Walking Biking – YouTube
- STREET B-ROLL AND CITY TOURS – YouTube
- St Georges Wharf – Central London architecture undertaken by Frederick Gibberd Partnership
- Wyświetl temat – [ul. Podwisłocze] Wieżowiec 180m • Forum Rzeszowskich inwestycji (inwestycje-rzeszow.pl) / Olszynki Park – Apartamenty w Rzeszowie
- Urban Realm – Architecture News, Reviews and Resources – Architecture, Buildings, Property & Development / Condominium | Tag | ArchDaily
- Home – Contemporary Architecture of Iran (caoi.ir)
- Kukurydze (wieżowce) – Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia
- Central | 1618 Quebec Street | Mount Pleasant, Vancouver (thewesthavengroup.com)
- Society Hill Towers – Wikipedia / Azrieli Center Complex – The Skyscraper Center
- ArtStation – Stacked 5-over-1 apartment building
CITIES & ARCOLOGIES
- AHC considering opening branch in New Administrative Capital: Magdi Yacoub – Egypt Independent
- Nusantara – New Capital City of Indonesia / 6th of October City – Wanted in Africa
- Liam Young’s Planet City could tackle climate change by housing 10 billion in a single metropolis
- Infrastructure – Eko Atlantic
- Keyhole: An exclusive inner-circle info-hub.
- City of Chandigarh | Architectuul
- 1920s ‘Popular Science’ Illustration Stacks the Future American City Like a Layered Cake | 6sqft
- India’s $2.7 Billion Capital Project Explained – YouTube
- Surat Diamond Bourse – Morphogenesis
- The Arcology Minecraft Map (planetminecraft.com)
- If Earth had rings : scifi (reddit.com)
- Inward, city, overgrown, ArtStation, building, abandoned, cranes | 1920×1200 Wallpaper
- 38 | WIP Crystal Island Norman Foster [Download 1.16+] Minecraft Map (planetminecraft.com)
- Flower of Life 3D Animation. Morph to Inverted Star Tetrahedron (youtube.com)
GAMES & FICTIONAL
Mixed category for video game maps, video games or videos that haven’t really been replicated.
- Villedor | Dying Light Wiki | Fandom
- Panzerstadt-Bayreuth | Mortal Engines Wiki | Fandom / ODIN | Mortal Engines Wiki | Fandom
- Mortal Engines VFX | Breakdown – London | Weta Digital – YouTube / The Model Maker Featurette
- Mortal Engines VFX | Breakdown – FX Simulations | Weta Digital – YouTube
- Shan Guo | Mortal Engines Wiki | Fandom / Mortal Engines VFX | Breakdown – Shan Guo
- GIANTS Demolition Company (demolitioncompany-thegame.com) / Demolition Company MAP
- Fictional Buildings, To Scale – game of thrones post – Imgur
- Best Movie Scene Fight Club Ending Pixies Where is My Mind? – YouTube
- index – SCBuildIt (reddit.com) / Simcity Build Season 25 + 26 And More
- Residential | Megapolis Wiki | Fandom / I decided to recreate the Megapolis : CitiesSkylines
- Walled City 99 | Stray Wiki | Fandom
- The Talos Principle – Official Launch Trailer (youtube.com)
- Green Land of the Pharaohs: Ancient Egypt Was Never a Desert (thearchaeologist.org)
- ArtStation – citadel / ArtStation – Citadel / ArtStation – Citadel
- STARSET – Brave New World (Official Music Video) – YouTube
- Designing the futuristic City of Glass for Mirror’s Edge Catalyst | The Verge / Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities • Tajfuny / ANNO 2205 :: Behance
- Still Wakes the Deep on Steam (steampowered.com)
- Essenger – “Empire Of Steel” (feat. Scandroid) / Rave New World
- Dystopika on Steam / Surviving Mars na Steam
- New City Building Game | Citystate (SCIFI)
OBJECT ARCHITECTURE
This is a mixed category with monuments, landmarks, album covers and buildings based off objects.
- Seminole Hard Rock Hotel / Kansas City Library’s Giant Bookshelf / Tianzi Hotel – Langfang Shi
- Duck Kee Market / Smash Mouth – Astro Lounge / Arctic Monkeys: The Car / Bar La Curva (CD)
- Works on paper / Papel — Fernando Martín Godoy / AD Classics: Cenotaph for Newton
- AD Classics: Walt Disney Concert Hall / City Hall, London (Southwark) – Wikipedia / Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (guggenheim-bilbao.eus)
- British Library London Building, Euston Road – e-architect
- The Eliminator Coupe: The Hot Rod that Captured the MTV Generation / Ford Nucleon – Wikipedia
- Carlo Scarpa Built Projects · Divisare / Víctor Enrich (victorenrich.com)
- Hidden Architecture » Qatar University – Hidden Architecture
- Taoyuan Main Public Library – Wikipedia
- From closest to farthest: JFK Stadium, Spectrum and Veterans Stadium. : philadelphia (reddit.com)
- Archillect (@archillect) / X (twitter.com)
- Public Square | Tag | ArchDaily / Heatherwick Studio unveils design for cylindrical faceted-glass tower
- Design of public spaces | Dezeen / Landscape architecture and urbanism projects | Dezeen
- Interiors | Jason R Woods | Architectural Photography
- The Basics of A Printed Circuit Board (hallmarknameplate.com)
- Retrofuturism – Wikipedia
- Digital Media Journey: Platforms and Porches in New Formalist Architecture (barrystei.blogspot.com)
FUTURISTIC & SCI-FI
Everything from fictional cyberpunk artwork to simple proposed and existing futuristic skyscrapers.
- The Arconic Tower | CONCEPT | 4800m | SkyscraperCity Forum
- First floating skyscraper (2050.earth)
- ArtStation – Xandar city – circular building / The Complex at the Centre of the Universe
- This “Sarcostyle” Tower Proposed for NYC Is Inspired by Muscle Fibers (mymodernmet.com)
- Grand Lisboa – Wikipedia
- Times Squared 3015- eVolo | Architecture Magazine
- Duo Residences – Duo Residences is a mixed development
- cube berlin Smart Office Building / 3XN | ArchDaily
- wasl Tower – UNStudio
- ‘The One’ mega mansion once worth $500 million defaults on $100 million in debt, forcing a sale
- MVRDV – Peruri 88
- SPARK completes Arté MK towers in sculptured form wrapped by aluminum ribs in Kuala Lumpur (worldarchitecture.org)
- Films & Architecture: “Metropolis” | ArchDaily
- Bugatti has helped design a massive residential building in Dubai | Top Gear
- Stunning skyscraper curves so it won’t leave neighbors in the shade (newatlas.com)
- Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (smithgill.com)
- VWArtclub – Triangle Tower
- Home – Santiago Calatrava – Architects & Engineers
- Contrast or Harmony: The Aesthetic of Modern Adaptations to Historic Buildings | ArchDaily
- HSBC Building | Architectuul / Tribunal de grande instance de Paris – Wikipedia
- Folkart Towers – Wikipedia / Mistral Office Tower – Wikipedia / Mistral İzmir | dnamimarlik
- Home – Musée de la Romanité à Nîmes (museedelaromanite.fr)
- Futuristic Cityscape With Metallic Stock Motion Graphics SBV-304511913 – Storyblocks
- Tomorrowland City Wallpaper ID:1516 (xtrafondos.com)
- Новый архитектурный символ Москвы-Сити: перспективы и дизайн небоскреба One Tower (moscow-city.guide) / Башня “One Tower” (Ван Тауэрс) в Москва-Сити
- Zaha Hadid Architects unveils supertall Tower C skyscraper for Shenzhen (dezeen.com)
- European Central Bank – Wikipedia
- 3D futuristic city stock footage. Video of arch, modern – 95598338 (dreamstime.com)
CYBERPUNK & DYSTOPIAN
- Dubai – Wikipedia / Abu Dhabi – Wikipedia / Hital Tower, and Spimaco Addwaeih Office Tower
- Aleksei Dudin Stock Image and Video / fredmantel Stock Image and Video Portfolio
- 3D Sci-Fi City flight – YouTube / Futuristic Ice City – Sci-Fi CG 2014 Series – YouTube
- AND – YouTube / beeple – YouTube
- Tokyo, dystopian megacity – by Gianni Simone (substack.com)
- Cyberpunk City : Reframing Tokyo As A Futuristic Wonderland – CITI I/O
- Scandroid – Neo Tokyo (Dance With The Dead Remix) (youtube.com)
- CYBERPUNK 2077 Crossing the City From Dawn to Dusk / Corpo Plaza Apartment / Megabuilding
- Electric Callboy – TEKKNO TRAIN / Snowpiercer Visual Development on Vimeo
- Essenger – Sanctum Eternal (Official Music Video) / Circle of Dust – Machines of Our Disgrace
- Half-Earth / Solarpunk – Wikipedia
- Post-Apocalyptic Cities – A research blog by Robert Yeates (wordpress.com)
- Edo Tokyo Museum – 江戸東京博物館 | It is Edo-Tokyo Museum next to … | Flickr
- HEALTH :: CYBERPUNK 2.0.2.0. (youtube.com)
- Welcome to the Age of the Supercar Skyscraper – YouTube
BRUTALIST & MODERNIST
- Architecture on Steroids in a Post-Soviet World (messynessychic.com)
- Cracked walls, wrinkled faces: Paris’ modernist housing estates and their elderly residents – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian
- Hotel Jugoslavija: Spatio-Temporal Mosaics of Memorabilia – Failed Architecture
- Demolition of Cumbernauld’s brutalist town centre “a complete outrage” (dezeen.com)
- Watergate complex – Wikipedia
- Streamline Moderne – Wikipedia / Khrushchevka – Wikipedia
- Rozzol Melara Complex | Architectuul
- The Round Houses in Moscow – Wikipedia
- Concrete Beauty: A Rough Guide to London’s Brutalist Housing Estates – Architizer Journal
- Googie Architecture: Futurism Through Modernism | ArchDaily
- Constructivist Architecture (worldofleveldesign.com)
- superjednostka, Katowice [OC] : brutalism (reddit.com)
- Index – PIRAEUS PORT PASSENGER TERMINAL (doma.archi)
- Arthur Erickson
- Vienna Gasometers – Wikipedia
- Wirak vil stille Otium-eier til ansvar (aftenbladet.no)
- Spot a Style: Streamline Moderne (thewestologist.com)
- Place Ville Marie | Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (pcf-p.com)
- Brutalist Belgrade – Greyscape / GreyScape exploring brutalism, modernism and constructivism
- Zupagrafika / Soviet Modernism – Postcards from concrete utopia
- The Twentieth Century Society – Campaigning for outstanding buildings (c20society.org.uk)
- Sorocaba City Hall, Brazil : brutalism (reddit.com)
- The World Bank Headquarters (kpf.com)
- Historical Photographs of the Construction of El Helicoide, an Icon of Venezuelan Architecture That Became a Prison | Vintage News Daily
- Exteriors | Jason R Woods | Architectural Photography
- DAC DESIGN – PAUL RUDOLPH / ARQUITECTURA VENEZUELA
- Clemens Gritl – Computer Generated Images
ORGANIC & SUSTAINABLE
- Award-winning skyscraper designs that aim to protect earth from humanity’s mistakes
- Vertical ForestING | Stefano Boeri Architetti
- Woodside Multi Storey Flats | Collective Architecture (collectiveenergy.co.uk)
- Herzog & de Meuron proposes “horizontal skyscrapers” raised on stilts for Moscow
- Biomimicry: explore buildings that are shaped like trees – The Spaces
- ‘Next decade’s answer to the Space Needle’: Seattle 2030 is a post-pandemic skyscraper concept
- Tao Zhu Yin Yuan Tower Minecraft Map (planetminecraft.com)
- Green Architecture for Skyscraper in HK Shortlisted for Awards – Thrillist
- Heart of greenness: Marina One, Singapore by Ingenhoven Architects with Gustafson Porter + Bowman – Architectural Review (architectural-review.com)
- 10 Examples of Modular architecture around the world – RTF (re-thinkingthefuture.com)
- Bloomberg’s New European Headquarters Rated World’s Most Sustainable Office Building
- Façade Engineering Blog: Al Bahar Towers (Abu Dhabi, 2012) (renatocilento.blogspot.com)
- L’Arbre Blanc by Sou Fujimoto | 2019-08-01 | Architectural Record
- Namba Parks – Wikipedia
- Who’s the architect behind the striking building opposite the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens?
- Aqua | Buildings of Chicago | Chicago Architecture Center
- PA | ParametricArchitecture (parametric-architecture.com)
- Natura Futura Arquitectura | ArchDaily
- HSB 2023 – Västerbroplan – Projects – C.F. Møller (cfmoller.com)
- Forest City, Johor – Wikipedia
- Sustainability and architecture in Copenhagen | Wonderful Copenhagen / Upcoming architecture
- Enscape redesigns architectural visualisation plugin for “intuitive usability” (dezeen.com)
ARCHITECTURE & STUDIOS
Architecture details and photography, magazines, architecture studios. Modern, foreign, historic.
- Architectural Doughnuts: Circular-Plan Buildings, with and without Courtyards | SpringerLink
- About – SkyscraperPage.com
- eVolo | Architecture Magazine
- ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide
- Faluház (Óbuda) – Wikipédia (wikipedia.org)
- Americas | KPF
- Sachio Otani – Wikipedia
- A Study in Architectural Contrasts: 12 Modern-Meets-Historic Additions – WebUrbanist
- Gibraltar – England 3D model | CGTrader
- resortX: Resort Construction Updates
- RTF Journal Archives – RTF | Rethinking The Future (re-thinkingthefuture.com)
- Projects – UNStudio
- Archive – Zaha Hadid Architects (zaha-hadid.com)
- News | UrbanToronto
- Mark Foster Gage | Mark Foster Gage Architects | United States (mfga.com)
- Illustration — HENRY GAO
- Wood Design Award Gallery | WoodWorks
- BIG | Bjarke Ingels Group
- The Human Cost of Concrete – Failed Architecture
- MVRDV – Projects
- DIE PLATTFORM FÜR ARCHITEKTURDETAILS UND BAUTEILINFORMATIONEN | BAUKOBOX
- Divisare · Atlas of Architecture
- ARQUITECTURA VENEZUELA – YouTube
- Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (pcf-p.com)
- Safdie Architects / The Moshe Safdie Archive – Home (mcgill.ca)
- Architectuul. Architects, Architecture – Building Knowledge! / ARKITOK | Made for architects, by architects / Arkitekten (arkitektforeningen.dk)
- Büro Ole Scheeren (buro-os.com)
- Expertise – SOM / Work | SHoP
- Architecture in Copenhagen | Wonderful Copenhagen
- Archilio – Bible collaborative étudiante
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