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Googie. The Seattle Space Needle is a design of this style.

Neofuturism.

The city I'm in has a ton of art deco buildings, I didn't even realize until I was an adult that it wasn't normal.

I would want art deco everywhere, it's probably nostalgia talking, but I think it's hella classy.

Tudor-style wattle and daub, timber framed houses with thatched roofs.

It's relatively environmentally friendly and sequesters a lot of carbon, and is well insulated. Willow coppices can be grown just about anywhere too.

Roman revival... most anything with arches, pillars, ashlar, obvious lentils, a strong sturdy feel.

But also high tech / structural expressionism.

(Uniklinikum Aachen, Germany)

Mud buildings

Brick gothic

And brick factories with high arches windows and rounded roofs

Frutiger Aero. This is what the future should have looked like. It's a beautiful balance between nature and technology. I love the glossy, transpartent, rounded nature of it all. The colors are bright and fresh but relaxing at the same time.

I'm also a big fan of mid century modern. It does a good job at incorporating a natural look. On the outside, the buildings are usually low profile and blend into the landscape well. On the inside, there's a lot of nice, quality natural materials like wood and stone that are used throughout.

Brutalism always fascinated me, i tried to model some building in 3d modeling tools in this style, churches public squares you name it. These huge, empty and vast monuments to the industrial nature of a building are like monolyths in a city. They claim their existance and you can't ignore them.

Ecclesiastical Art Deco. There are surprisingly few examples of this. Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa is probably the best one.

Any. Very few modern buildings can be said to have any style at all. They are just functional blocks.

Victorian homes like this

I enjoy the Art Deco look. Sleek yet confident.

I think Art Deco or Art Nouveau. I love both.

And the Art Deco crowd wins the poll!

Had cousins whose entire home, bar the sun room, was Art Deco. Not just the furniture and paintings, even the magazines and lighters and ash trays. Quite a collection!

Art deco, deco noir, and deco Gothic.

And whatever the style is named for the hyper themed buildings. They were popular in LA for a long time and then spilled out in the 80s and 90s until the mid 2000s.

Beaux-Arts, I just think it’s beautiful and intricate. I’m also a fan of Frutiger Aero and Googie mentioned already, which seems contradictory. Is there an architecture style that somehow combines Beaux-Arts with either one of those?

Cyclopean. We just don't make 'em like we used to; with big, irregular stones and zero mortar.

Art deco for sure, possibly turn-of-the-century industrial as well.

Seriously look at this steam engine. It looks like it belongs in a massive cathedral or something.

Whatever architectural style the Weekend at Bernie's is:

Googie. It harkens to the hopeful celebration of the future during the Space Age.

Not sure what it’s called but I’d like to see buildings looking like this again

This is the Library of Congress in Washington DC

I advocate for Rococo

Not at all dead but I'd like modernist style to become more popular again.

The interior design of the brutalist era was often very interesting. That is probably what I would bring back.

Utilitarian - Row houses and small single family starter homes.

Detached single family housing is suffocating this country and the environment. I’d rather leave the woods to nature and nature walks, not streets and houses.

In addition to that, utopian architecture, like arcologies.