📍Architecture & Minecraft build Inspiration 300+ links
FOR MINECRAFT & BEYOND: Mix of architecture styles, eras, city & design inspiration! Modern + abstract, traditional, classical, historical. Galleries, games, sites, magazines. If you are hungry for some inspiration, scrolling thru this list might help. You can also join my Discord in the website footer for an image channel 🙂
- Cannot recommend https://www.pureref.com app enough for references
- Also, I use https://excalidraw.com for quick web sketches and planning
- Related: WN #22: Catching up on Creative Servers! (Comparing features)
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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
- Azabudai Hills – Wikipedia
EASTERN SKYSCRAPERS
Chinese skyscrapers, other lesser known East Asian locations, including some traditional architecture.
- 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
- 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
- Regent International Building in Hangzhou, China home to 30,000 people
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songdo / songdoibd.tistory.com shin-doshi
- Hill Station – Wikipedia
- Everything You Need to Know About the Flame Towers – Azerbaijan
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)
- My attempt to update the list of INE subs and INE Extra subs (in alphabetical order)
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 / La Rochelle – 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
- Ấn Quang Pagoda – Wikipedia / Chang Mai – Wikipedia
- Early Explorers of the Maya Civilization: John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood
- https://catedraldemallorca.org/en/
- Gruyères, Switzerland
- https://treasuryoflives.org/institution/Milarepa-Sekhar-Gutok / https://www.pamela-logan.com/conservation/built-heritage-palpung-gonpa/
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
- São Paulo
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Empire State Plaza
- Torun Wiezowiec
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
- https://mareterra.com/en/
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)
- https://vincent.callebaut.org/object/080523_lilypad/lilypad/projects
GAMES & FICTIONAL
Mixed category for video game maps, video games or videos that haven’t really been replicated.
- Villedor | Dying Light Wiki | Fandom
- 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
- IMMORTAL (Ad Vitam) (2004) Trailer Remastered HD
- https://wetaworkshopdesignstudio.artstation.com/ / Neo Tokyo (1987 Film) – Wikipedia
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
- Digital Media Journey: Platforms and Porches in New Formalist Architecture (barrystei.blogspot.com)
- https://architectuul.com/architecture/palace-of-fine-arts-of-the-panama
- https://arquitecturaviva.com/works/jardines-midway-chicago
- AD Classics: Grundtvig’s Church / Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint / Hallgrímskirkja (Iceland) – Wikipedia / https://www.visittromso.no/arctic-cathedral
- https://propstore.com/product/conan-the-barbarian-1982/ron-cobb-hand-painted-tomb-of-the-atlantean-general-artwork/
- https://neverwasmag.com
- ATLAS OBSCURA
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 / European Central Bank – Wikipedia
- 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)
- Hotel Morpheus Zaha Hadid
- 3D futuristic city stock footage. Video of arch, modern – 95598338 (dreamstime.com)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationales_Congress_Centrum_Berlin
- https://www.giraldiassociati.it/portfolio/al-dafna-tower/?media_link=1
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
- Brutalist route – mapamatky.cz
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
- https://www.cgarchitect.com/
- https://studio804.com/projects/
- https://www.youtube.com/@Archimarathon
- gregorzoyzoyla – radical modernism
- AD Architecture Classics | ArchDaily
- https://masseguridadvial.com/FILES/Underground_Carparks_EN.pdf
- https://www.abscale.com/portfolio models CURVE
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