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A sepia-toned diagram of a Formula 1 racecar.

How to Build a Racecar

By Justin Reeve • August 16th, 2024

The similarities between a skyscraper and a racecar might not be apparent, but the overall approach in terms of design and construction is largely identical.

Mind Palaces
A screenshot from Pathologic shows buildings with strange conical architecture reaching up into hazy grey skies.

Architectural Intent

By Maddi Chilton • September 6th, 2023

For a book that is nominally about the hubristic imaginings of a genius architect, Rose/House seems to have no actual interest in architecture.

Two screenshots, Inside on the left and Gorogoa on the right. For Inside, a young child is crouching behind a fence in dark, misty woods by a road and in the distance a truck backs up towards the shadow of an adult with a dog. For the Gorogoa shot there are four images, in the top left a notebook and some pocket watches on a map, to the right of that an animated fireplace, to the bottom left a broken statue, destroyed wall, and government building in the distance, and lastly a white mirror or dais as seen from above

Ideology Speaks Through Architecture: Exploring Inside and Gorogoa

By Hayes Geldmacher • June 14th, 2023

Whereas Inside demonstrates the depths of oppressive architectural language, Gorogoa does the opposite by elevating space beyond the physical into the cosmic. 

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Architecture and Authority

By Justin Reeve • May 31st, 2021

Somewhere, someone is still really mad it’s called the “Racoon Police Department.”

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Bizarre Banality

By Justin Reeve • January 12th, 2021

The house in Gone Home is WEIRD.

Best of 2020

The Best Architecture in Games in 2020

By Justin Reeve • December 30th, 2020

Justin gathers the best examples of architecture in videogames.

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Billboard Architecture

By Justin Reeve • August 13th, 2020

What Sega has to say about kanbankenchiku, literally translated as “billboard architecture,” in Yakuza 0 is that all of the bright lights and flashy colors might be more meaningful than first meets the eye.

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Beyond Blueprints

By Justin Reeve • January 13th, 2020

Manifold Garden is filled with structures that you’ll never see on a blueprint because they would be impossible to actually build.

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Gotham’s Multiple Masks

By Justin Reeve • December 9th, 2019

There are many different Gothams.

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Living Architecture

By Justin Reeve • September 6th, 2019

The architecture of Red Grave City comes alive in Devil May Cry 5.

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