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Alphabet Architecture
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Any building shaped like a letter of the alphabet intentionally, to reference the name or initials of the corporation or the team using that building. Very often in the form of skyscrapers. A subtrope of Bizarrchitecture. Can often be related to Brought to You by the Letter "S". Examples: |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_1352f2c5 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_1352f2c5 | comment |
In the Amalgam Universe X-Patrol, the Doom Patrol/X-Force amalgam (which also included a lot of Teen Titans elements), was based in the X-Building. | |
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| Amalgam Universe (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_19d09126 | type |
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Occasionally, some structures in The Spirit may appear to be shaped into the word "SPIRIT". | |
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| The Spirit (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_1fcdbe32 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_1fcdbe32 | comment |
The buildings of Dictionopolis in The Phantom Tollbooth are shaped like letters, and King Azaz's castle is shaped like an enormous open book. | |
| Alphabet Architecture / int_1fcdbe32 | featureApplicability |
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| The Phantom Tollbooth | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_261c8d3f | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_261c8d3f | comment |
In The Simpsons episode "Homer the Vigilante", a criminal claims to have buried a fortune under a big letter T. The entire town then goes mad hunting for it, and several sight gags include T-shaped buildings such as the "Big T Burgers & Fries", the "Big T Building", and the "Big T Theatre" (with Ice-T appearing with Booker T. in concert). | |
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| The Simpsons | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_2baca2eb | type |
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In Herbie Rides Again, Alonzo Hawk's proposed new building, Hawk Plaza, is shaped like the letter "H". | |
| Alphabet Architecture / int_2baca2eb | featureApplicability |
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| The Love Bug | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_366dfee3 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_366dfee3 | comment |
The OSS headquarters as seen in Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams is a huge glass building shaped like the letters "OSS". | |
| Alphabet Architecture / int_366dfee3 | featureApplicability |
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| Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_37f1c1bb | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_37f1c1bb | comment |
In My Little Pony Annual 2014, the headquarters of the Power Ponies is shaped like two imbricated Ps. | |
| Alphabet Architecture / int_37f1c1bb | featureApplicability |
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| My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_3bf4b641 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_3bf4b641 | comment |
Ready Player One: As part of the society's acute case of Sigil Spam, the main building for Innovative Online Industries follows an "IOI" shape. | |
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| Ready Player One (2018) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_3ee87492 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_3ee87492 | comment |
The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy tells us the headquarters of the mighty Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is housed in a series of gargantual skyscrapers whose shapes were meant to spell out the Company logo Share And Enjoy! in mile-high letters. However, owing to one of those design and planning blunders the SCC is renowned for across the Galaxy, the ground underneath was geologically unstable and could not bear the weight. Therefore the mighty skyscrapers plunged into the ground in a localised earthquake and are buried for half their height. Those parts still visible from above ground now appear to read Go Stick Your Head In A Pig! in the local language. | |
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| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Radio) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_46518682 | type |
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Sesame Street has an animation, "We All Live in a Capital I". | |
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| Sesame Street | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_5178149f | type |
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In the episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold "Emperor Joker", a near-omnipotent Joker reshapes some buildings in Gotham City to spell "Joker" during his Villain Song. | |
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| Batman: The Brave and the Bold | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_5ab7ccaf | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_5ab7ccaf | comment |
IOI from Ready Player One has three of these, lined up to spell out their initials. This is true both in the real world and on OASIS. | |
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| Ready Player One | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_64ad3dd3 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_64ad3dd3 | comment |
In '90s cartoon The BOTS Master, big evil corporation RM Corp has two positively massive skyscrapers side-by-side in the shape of an R and an M. | |
| Alphabet Architecture / int_64ad3dd3 | featureApplicability |
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| The Bots Master | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_6ff64a3c | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_6ff64a3c | comment |
WordWorld takes place in a world where everything is made out of its own word, and that also includes the houses the characters live in. | |
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| WordWorld | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_708f7594 | type |
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Dirty Pair: The Anime adaptation shows that the 3WA headquarters are a set of buildings that when viewed from above spell out "WWWA". An alternate design from the OVAs shows the headquarters as a single long building with an array of diagonal girders spelling out the acronym in huge letters across the front. |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_7f82538d | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_7f82538d | comment |
The Lexcorp building in Krypto the Superdog is shaped like the letter L (guess what that stands for?). | |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_87e00d8e | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_87e00d8e | comment |
Teen Titans (2003): The Titans Tower is in the shape of a giant capital T. When the HIVE Five took over the tower briefly, they were in the process of converting it into an even bigger H when the Titans took it back. | |
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| Teen Titans (2003) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_90a3a7f4 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_90a3a7f4 | comment |
Team Go's headquarters from Kim Possible is shaped like a giant version of the word "GO". | |
| Alphabet Architecture / int_90a3a7f4 | featureApplicability |
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| Kim Possible | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_960062b7 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_960062b7 | comment |
The main building of UA in My Hero Academia consists of four towers with skybridges halfway up, so that from the side it looks like a letter H (for Hero, presumably). | |
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| My Hero Academia (Manga) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_976efc02 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_976efc02 | comment |
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Gizmonic Institute, as seen in the intro and bumpers, is in the shape of a laid-flat "G". | |
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| Mystery Science Theater 3000 | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_9ec61fa1 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_9ec61fa1 | comment |
On NewsRadio, Jimmy James plans to construct two J-shaped towers in a bid to have his name on something that will live on after he's gone. | |
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| NewsRadio | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_ac2f3ba7 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_ac2f3ba7 | comment |
ORPHANIMO!!: The reason Hari Vallalkozo wants the orphanage is to make room for his ultimate project; the V-building; the tallest building in the world, in the shape of a V. Eventually, a rival of his beats him to it with a Y-building, which Vallalkozo then plans to top with an H-building (courtesy of his evil right-hand man Hanz). Eventually, neither of his projects gets build. Also, when Vallalkozo is temporarily presumed dead, his ex-wife Ursula takes over his company and plans to build a U-building. This doesn't get past the blueprints stage either. | |
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| ORPHANIMO!! / Comicbook | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_af60702d | type |
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The Legend of Zelda: In the Second Quest, the first five dungeons are modeled after letters in their map designs, spelling Z-E-L-D-A (one letter per dungeon) in a scrambled order (E-A-L-D-Z). | |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_c7f59f7d | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_c7f59f7d | comment |
The headquarters of the Teen Titans, both in the animated series and eventually carried over into the comics, is shaped like a big capital T. | |
| Alphabet Architecture / int_c7f59f7d | featureApplicability |
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| Teen Titans (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_cc9ba740 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_cc9ba740 | comment |
The Glider PRO house "The Word Thing" has 100 rooms arranged into six buildings whose shapes spell out the word "GLIDER." | |
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| Glider (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_cf3e7a82 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_cf3e7a82 | comment |
In post-Crisis Superman, Lex Luthor's Lexcorp building is shaped like an 'L' if you look down on it. The top of the building slopes in a sharp diagonal to emphasize the 'L' shape. | |
| Alphabet Architecture / int_cf3e7a82 | featureApplicability |
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| Superman (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_d45837ba | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_d45837ba | comment |
In Cities: Skylines, the Colossal Order headquarters is shaped like the letters CO. | |
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| Cities: Skylines (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_d7765410 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_d7765410 | comment |
The head offices of the publishers who make the eponymous book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is shaped like a capital H, although why it's shaped like this and not some alien lettering is never explained, but could be down to that "long string of pretty meaningless coincidences" that are apparently a side effect of creating an Infinite Improbability Drive. There is also the head offices of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation, which owing to unforeseen problems that caused the whole thing to partially sink into the ground, is left with the above-ground upper portions appearing to spell out "Go Stick Your Head in a Pig" in the local language. |
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| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_dbb31d3c | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_dbb31d3c | comment |
Tex Avery MGM Cartoons: In one Screwy Squirrel cartoon, Screwy escapes from an insane asylum whose buildings spell out NUTZ. | |
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| Tex Avery MGM Cartoons | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_e43ea2a3 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_e43ea2a3 | comment |
Ultraman X: The Team XIO home base is shaped like a Giant X, fitting the series' naming conventions. | |
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| Ultraman X | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_ed8afeac | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_ed8afeac | comment |
A Super Chicken cartoon on George of the Jungle has a ridiculous visual gag where the narration has characters running into an alley and a vacant lot, showing them running into giant block letters on the street spelling out "ALLEY" and "VACANT LOT". | |
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| George of the Jungle | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_ef7b3325 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_ef7b3325 | comment |
A numerical example; during the late 80s, the Fantastic Four had rebuilt their headquarters when the Baxter Building was destroyed by Doctor Doom. They renamed their building Four Freedoms Plaza, and the top stories were shaped like the numeral 4. | |
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| Fantastic Four / Comicbook | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_f1f0ba56 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_f1f0ba56 | comment |
The Reboot Legion Of Superheroes had an HQ◊ that looked like the Legion L-symbol from above. (And if viewed from an angle.) | |
| Alphabet Architecture / int_f1f0ba56 | featureApplicability |
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| Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_fc656a04 | type |
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| Alphabet Architecture / int_fc656a04 | comment |
Titan Tower was later parodied in the comic book Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! with the team's "Z-Building". | |
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| Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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