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What's your nation's signature architectural style?

PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:24 pm
by Greater Tion
greater tion uses both hellenic and oriental architectural styles.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:39 pm
by New Paris
Our nation has historically been dominated by two styles: Second Empire and Art Deco

PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:00 pm
by Nesixar
The architecture of Nesixar can best be described as Habitat 67 writ large. Sprawling waves of block houses, covered in murals and art-deco, with lovely little rooftop gardens and public walkways between homes, linking seamlessly to planned workplaces and public spaces. Theatres, concert halls, museums, libraries, cafes, taverns, hotels, diners, and shopping centres are nestled into the housing blocks through cozy little arches and pillared alcoves. Clean manufacturing centres, greenhouse farms, and other production facilities are placed in blocks of their own on the city's outskirts, or are sometimes nestled within housing blocks themselves, especially if they are quiet. Often, factories will be equipped with their own shelters for the unemployed and homeless to reside in while arrangements are being made for them to be rehoused.
Streets are laid out between housing blocs and designed so that the entrances and exits of public spaces and workplaces are most efficiently placed. Public transportation in the form of taxis, buses, trolleys, and trains ease the workload of the road system, although private cars are still used. All public transportation vehicles are painted bright blue to make them stand out. Stops are placed so that as many people as possible have to walk as little distance as possible.

Skyscrapers aren't to be found in Nesixar. We find them to be quite garish and ugly, disrupting the geometrical beauty of our cities, our tallest building, as it is, is the Xinilco Hotel. It's a vibrant place, always bathed in light and full of art-deco and mural-covered walls. It's considered a triumph of Nesixaran constructivism and a showplace of our artistic culture. Renowned for the largest public movie theatre in the nation, and voted "Best Atmosphere" in an international poll.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:22 pm
by United Angkoria
Angkorian architecture:
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:30 pm
by Sejaresia
Islamic, Persian and Mughal, Minimalist, Art Deco, and most prominently Sejani architecture, wooden simple buildings with intricate engravings and practical shapes.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:51 pm
by Roasaria
A mix between Ukrainian, Swedish, and British architecture.



Basically stone and steel structures with an occasional skyscraper.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:02 am
by Arkiasis
Beaux-Arts architecture, Victorian architecture and Gothic Revival architecture are the most admired and protected. However due to the relatively young age of Arkiasis the most common architecture found is modern, art deco and neomodern architecture.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 2:53 am
by Taidar
To sum it up, imagine the mix of Indian and East Asian style architectures.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:25 am
by Empire of Narnia
Narnian architecture is what you could call a Totalitarian Baroque style. Think of Versailles, but much larger and more imposing in design. Some of our older buildings follow a Gothic style though. In the northern provinces that style is still somewhat popular and has incorporated modern totalitarian elements.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:35 am
by Baghanathria
Gothic and classicist architecture are the dominant ones.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:36 am
by Neu Preussische Republik
Well, a lot of the colonial cities look a lot like these:

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Other than that, a lot of it looks relatively modern, neo-modern, and the like.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:37 am
by Albaie
Neoclassicism alongside some Georgian buildings

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:51 am
by Liberated Counties
Lavish and high-end buildings are constructed in varying degrees of Modern architecture. Urban expansion projects are more functionalist and old buildings are Countic (An offshoot of Gothic)

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:53 am
by Horizont
Totalitarian, particularly Nazi and Stalinist.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:58 am
by Regenburg
Couldn't find any similar architecture picture on the internet.
it's basically round house,walls made by long vertical sticks,floor made out of planks,and inside it's like small apartment with proper electricity and water system.As big as one too,but everything seems to fit.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 4:06 am
by Kharan
National architecture closely resembles that of traditional Islam. However, we are transitioning into making public comstructions more efficient and sustainable throughout Kharan. Pictured below is the Kalat Bridge, which captures the beauty of Kalat's still waters. It provides the public with facilities including bars and restaurants. Leisure activities are also present throughout the day with canoeing common with many local residents and tourists.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 4:11 am
by Vissegaard
A mix between Classical/Empire and SteelĀ“n Glass.
May post some sketches later.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 4:19 am
by Dalcaria
An eclectic, imperial, well maintained mess. There is a little bit of Fascist design, Stalinist design, Victorian design, Georgian design, and the list goes on. You'll see things from around the 1600's or 1700's and forward, but only up to the EARLY 1900's. The Imperial Province of Tavastia mostly consists of palatial, "imperial" styled architecture. The other provinces vary widely. We've got castle and castle manors, French and Spanish style villas and villa farms, architecture you'd probably see in Coastal England, and the list goes on. More than anything, this should be said though; most architecture in Dalcaria has a "fancy" style to it, a "classical" style, or an "imperial" style. We pride ourselves on our extremely varied architecture, because although much of it is thrown in from different time periods, it all manages to sit together so perfectly, like the Empire as it is now has been in the works for thousands of years, a piece of art being worked on throughout time and many artists. It's quite poetic for the Empire actually. One other thing to help simplify things a bit, we use lots of stone in our construction, even if just for outside appearances. Think Buckingham Palace, or some Stalinist architecture. Very little glass and steel used, except for in more industrial areas, where it usually takes on more of a Victorian era style of glass and steel (like the exhibition Queen Victoria had made in her late husband's name, I think, though I could be mixing up my history). I may try to get pics later, to make this easier to understand.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 5:23 am
by Kryosa
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Prospero, the Imperial Capital

Since Iskandar's regime came to power in Kryosa, neo-gothic architecture has been used extensively, wherever and whenever possible.

In Propsero particularly, the former skyline of modern skyscrapers has been almost entirely demolished to make way for ever larger government palaces and monuments.

The grandiose pseudo-religious style of Iskandar's architecture is intended to inspire awe, fanaticism and devotion.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:14 am
by Cardaran
Whites, blacks, browns and greys are most common, gently sloping ziggurat-like structures are used instead of high-rises or skyscrapers, and nature is incorporated into building design as much as possible. Buildings tend to be blocky and have a lot of glass when possible, with interiors being designed to be as spacious and light as possible. Typical building materials include concrete, stone, glass, steel and wood.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:22 am
by Gigaverse
We have a strange preference for Oriental, Gothic, futuristic or any otherwise interesting architectural style.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:23 am
by The Glorious Shroomic Republic
Succinctly summed up in one word: trees.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:26 am
by Untaroicht
We use classic period mayan styles blended with a bit of Ukrainian Baroque

PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:59 am
by Catholic Terra
In a nutshell, Italian Renaissance & Victorian.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:13 am
by Limoncello
Catholic Terra wrote:In a nutshell, Italian Renaissance & Victorian.

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^This and Romanesque Revival