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In extreme environments, stone provides a thermal "battery" to moderate temperature swings. During the day in a desert, the stone will absorb the heat while the interior of the building stays cool. At …

Outside of some of the issues identified in the other answers, architecture often reflects the environment that the characters live in. … This style of architecture died out in the 1950's and 60's with the advent of cheap air conditioning. …

While Mylar might make up the bulk of the building, it will need to be reinforced at critical locations in order to stand and resist forces such as wind and shifting loads inside as people walk around …

Assuming we are not employing "ultra tech" and handwavium, the size of any megastructure on Earth will be limited by the structural strength of the materials. For practical purposes, we will probably …

The driving force behind the development of Gothic architecture was to build soaring monuments to the glory of God, and to literally have men raise their eyes to the heavens as part of their experience … The Romans, on the other hand, idolized the Classical Greek civilization, and their public architecture generally emulated the Greek forms rather than attempting something new and different. …

As a counterpoint to the posts by Rigop and Michael Karnerfors, building a dome does not have to be particularly expensive (certainly not hyper expensive) so long as you are clear on the parameters an …

Double walled structures with bales of hay between them are simple to make, and are the basis of some "live off the land" type structures today. These are probably easy to build with the technology of …

The issues of walls has been addressed very well by the other answers, so I will look at the castle itself. The main reason to have a large castle is both as a fortification and also as a base. Sitti …

If technology is as all encompassing as mentioned in the back story, then rather than making faux medieval buildings, the structural forms of the buildings is covered in a holographic/VR simulacrum wh …

Architecture would have accommodations to allow for the use of mechanical transmission inside and between buildings. Communications would be via devices like pneumatic tube transport. … So architecture will be adjusted to take the needs of mechanical and fluidic systems into account. …

Since your system captures magic and sends it to and from temples, it would seem that the way to channel the magical energy would be to send it via magic. Ley lines are hypothetical alignments in the …

Like other answers, the issue is what sort of air handling system could be installed to exchange the air, ventilate and reduce the moisture content and for that matter, keep the hall at some sort of c …

Using a sub crater inside the larger main crater would provide a useful compromise between a concrete submarine and a dome. The ring wall of the crater is the "submarine" part, with multiple chambers …

While in general I agree a "first generation" AI would be built as a giant datacenter around a power plant (as discussed in Avernium's answer), the need to protect itself against natural or other disa …

This is really more of a comment, but since I was interested in sharing the picture, here is a building considered to be "the best" zombie fortress: an elevator structure over an abandoned Japanese co …