Tropes involving buildings.
Not to be confused with information on how to build a trope. See Administrivia for that.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Abandoned Warehouse
- Abominable Auditorium
- Alphabet Architecture: Buildings shaped like letters.
- Arcology
- Artistic License – Engineering
- Beautiful Condemned Building
- Bigger on the Inside: Makes you wonder if the blueprints also defy Euclidian space.
- Big Labyrinthine Building
- Bizarrchitecture
- Building Location Restrictions
- Building Swing
- Ceiling Smash
- Chimney Entry: Entering a building via chimney.
- Stuck in a Chimney: Success not guaranteed.
- Cobweb of Disuse: When things are old and long-ignored, spiders make use of the space.
- Community-Threatening Construction
- Construction Zone Calamity
- Conveniently Empty Building: When buildings are destroyed, no one gets hurt because every building demolished conveniently had no one inside at the time.
- Creepy Basement
- Creepy Dollhouse
- Crash in Through the Ceiling
- Fake Town
- Futuristic Pyramid
- Gingerbread House: A building that is made of something edible.
- Inside a Wall
- Key Under the Doormat
- Living Structure Monster: A construction hell-bent on destruction.
- Locked in the Dungeon
- Loose Floorboard Hiding Spot
- Lumber Mill Mayhem
- Mobile Maze
- The Need for Mead: A classic fantasy tavern.
- Never Recycle a Building
- Nightmarish Factory
- Non Sequitur Environment
- Not Drawn to Scale
- Not-So-Abandoned Building
- Old School Building
- Only Shop in Town
- Outgrowing the Building: A character grows so much that they run out of space - or burst through the roof.
- Parking Garage
- Proud Industrious Race: Erecting beautiful, sturdy, or otherwise remarkable buildings is one of the usual specializations of such races and cultures.
- Ridiculously Fast Construction: In spite of the building's size, it doesn't take very long to finish building it.
- Roofhopping
- Roofless Renovation
- Rooftop Confrontation
- Secret Path
- Shaped Like What It Sells
- Sickening Slaughterhouse
- Skyscraper Messages
- Smokestack Drop
- Star Scraper
- This Is What the Building Will Look Like
- Through the Ceiling, Stealthily
- The Tower
