let's have a thread about architecture in fantasy and sometimes sci-fi. what are some of your favorite settings with interesting architecture and which ones do you think are criminally under used? I feel like urban fantasy is underused, although we were just thrown a bone with bright, granted the architecture wasn't a huge focus.
Architecture thread
Eli Hall
Brody Howard
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Joseph Cox
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Daniel Stewart
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Landon Cox
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Elijah Davis
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Nicholas Reyes
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Evan Taylor
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Isaiah Williams
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Leo Cooper
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Chase White
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Jeremiah Clark
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Carter Brooks
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Adam Reyes
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Kevin Bailey
I'm interested OP
Easton Adams
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Aiden Brooks
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Austin Rivera
glad to hear
Andrew Fisher
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Parker Powell
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William Clark
and now we get to the good stuff, good old bekinski
Ayden Mitchell
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Landon Garcia
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Levi Gutierrez
i'm not sure how i feel about this, it's a cool callback to mayan pyramids but it's got that overly smooth modern architecture look that just doesn't do it for me
Jose Reyes
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Angel Green
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Alexander Anderson
fuck i had less bekinski architecture than i thought. tons of his art but not a lot of his architecture
Christopher Kelly
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Benjamin Bell
all righty, that's all i got to dump for now
Hunter James
Okay, thanks OP, might as well dump what I have here
Xavier Walker
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David Long
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Colton Peterson
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Ryan James
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Benjamin Lopez
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Jaxon Diaz
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Adrian Johnson
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Alexander Myers
shit man this one catches my interest hard, what a cool looking world to have a campaign in
Juan Cruz
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Leo Robinson
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Brandon Smith
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Jason Long
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Logan Anderson
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Jason Davis
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Cooper Kelly
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Zachary Parker
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Christopher Green
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Elijah Allen
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Jace Lopez
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Ethan Brown
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Easton Nguyen
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Elijah Butler
So this is a diverse portfolio of architecture.
Could you come up with a setting that has them all?
Hard mode: only one plane of existence
Ryder Ward
Fuck man I don't even know. Which point did you start dumping from. Or did you mean every picture in the thread thus far?
Hudson Scott
Uh, mine are from the desert city
but if you can, try to do all of them
I'm thinking a huge scattering of isolated city states that all have a different technological and magical development path derived from the titan that guided their civilization.
Noah Parker
well i think the easiest thing to do first would be to seperate all the architecture into groups of what looks most similar, especially if we're tackling everything, it's reasonable to assume that the similar appearing ones would be grouped close together even in a fantasy setting. we have a few pictures from magic's ravnica from here, although not all of them should go together i think, it's got diverse architecture in world since the whole plane of existence is covered in city, i think realistically the ones from ravnica that look different enough should be seperated in this map
Justin Flores
Let's see, how about these categories
>city of the future
>war machines
>clock tech
>dark city
>water architecture
>Normal but Bigger
(again)
>freaky magic
And the rest is miscellaneous I guess? Too unique. Not in an absolute sense but in this thread.
Dominic Fisher
not sure about this one
an interconnecting and abandoned train station system on the outskirts of i feel like these two could be in a similarly forested area, like, the bottom half is the ruins the forest has overgrown and the top one is a newer civilization sprung up on top of it
i feel like this one could go under freaky magic, although it is a bit different from the others.
Nathaniel Adams
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>i feel like this one could go under freaky magic, although it is a bit different from the others.
It has the same colour scheme definitely. The robots with strange organic parts could also maybe clock tech.
Hunter Nelson
i'm thinking something like this, the shape could maybe be a bit more interesting but yeah
Eli Reyes
Are these landmasses?
How big would the distance between them need to be for technology not to leak from one civ to another?
Benjamin Johnson
fair point, lemme see about expanding this map a bit
Nathaniel Cooper
all right here we go how's this, plotted down some land masses. any ideas on where to plot the architectural areas
Samuel Jenkins
bump
Adrian Howard
Hey- one setting I’m coming up with is essentially the Vatican City on a floating island over a Great Lake. It has access to the only portals in the world, including one that goes to heaven (but only like the waiting room of heaven, which is an endless series of cathedral rooms). Flying mounts are common in the setting. Anything I should take into consideration about it?
Angel Watson
I'd say it'd have to be sword and sorcery a la Conan, but with a bit of steam tech added.
Jack Walker
Fuck yes this thread.
Dominic Russell
The lost kingdom (freaky magic) used to be hyper-advanced. Hubris and deals with devils caused a magical apocalypse. This was in ancient times.
Since then other civilizations have arisen at the edges of the magical wasteland, but they've always thought they were the only survivors of the now faded into myth and of the world and wouldn't go exploring over the magical version of irradiated wasteland.
The neo colony (city of the future) are refugees of their own little apocalypse. They were the rich and priviliged class of the people that used to live in the scrap country (war machines). They're purely scientific with no magic, scrap country is still lived in but they have lost some of the ancient technology and are in constant turf war with hapazardly engineered mechs.
The empire (normal but bigger) is the opposite of them, in that it's pretty much pure magic. They're able to use magic to build and maintain much greater buildings and cities but they still have the form and conventions of medieval technology constructs.
The only people they know of that they haven't conquered are the independent coast cities (water architecture). But a stable peace exists between the two factions.
The only current civilization to mix magic with science is the brass city (clock tech), which uses magic to make their clock stuff work. However, they're not as good at magic as the magic users and not as advanced as the science users.
Jonathan Green
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Chase Brown
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Samuel Myers
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Nathaniel Wilson
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Ryan James
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Jason Cox
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Parker Morris
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Kayden Barnes
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Adam Bennett
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Samuel Wood
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Tyler Morales
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Caleb Gray
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Zachary Allen
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Samuel Wilson
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Benjamin Martinez
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Dominic Evans
>how i feel about this one
I tend to like modernist glass monstrosities when I imagine how they could look in another 20-50 years. Sort of faded, half used, a bit broken but people still trying to maintain a semblance of normalcy. Like the western euro version of all the decrepit soviet block buildings that look dope now.
Liam Harris
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Jordan Morales
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Nathan Long
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Jackson Hernandez
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Jacob Allen
Straight lines = best lines.
Adrian Phillips
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Jayden Collins
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Eli Russell
Dishonored has some good stuff.
Oliver Thompson
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Ayden Reyes
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Jose King
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Aaron Rodriguez
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Gavin Ward
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Evan Sanchez
>you will never live in an alternate history where the French Revolution never happened and Étienne-Louis Boullée's designs were built during the early industrial era
To think that /pol/ faps over Albert Speer's tiny dome in Berlin when this French madman was designing buildings a dozen times more grandiose over a century earlier.
If your building's foundations don't have to account for the curvature of the earth, it's not big enough.
Joshua Williams
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Dylan Adams
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Justin Nelson
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