I'll have to call the efficiency of the pyramid into question for futuristic buildings. Whether you're on a city planet or a Death World where good spots to put down a building are few and far between, space will be at a premium and if you're somehow able to build a standard orthogonal building of the same height on the same base, its volume is going to be exactly 3 times bigger (a refreshing case of the Universe making math easier for us instead of harder).
Thus, pyramids are only practical when it's possible to build orthogonal buildings only up to X height, but pyramids can go above 3X, and then only if you keep close to the ideal slope angle, 45 degrees (I could be wrong about this one, mind).
Thus, they will fall under Awesome, but Impractical, and even in Real Life they are invariably built as some sort of vanity project, from the Egyptian Pyramids and the Mesoamerican temples to the Louvre Pyramid, the top of the Chrysler building and the Burj Khalifa (The latter two only follow the pyramid plan as a rough guideline, I know).
As for spaceships, if friction isn't an issue there is no way to beat the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the sphere, and if it is, the pyramid is not its obvious replacement.
I'll have to call the efficiency of the pyramid into question for futuristic buildings. Whether you're on a city planet or a Death World where good spots to put down a building are few and far between, space will be at a premium and if you're somehow able to build a standard orthogonal building of the same height on the same base, its volume is going to be exactly 3 times bigger (a refreshing case of the Universe making math easier for us instead of harder).
Thus, pyramids are only practical when it's possible to build orthogonal buildings only up to X height, but pyramids can go above 3X, and then only if you keep close to the ideal slope angle, 45 degrees (I could be wrong about this one, mind).
Thus, they will fall under Awesome, but Impractical, and even in Real Life they are invariably built as some sort of vanity project, from the Egyptian Pyramids and the Mesoamerican temples to the Louvre Pyramid, the top of the Chrysler building and the Burj Khalifa (The latter two only follow the pyramid plan as a rough guideline, I know).
As for spaceships, if friction isn't an issue there is no way to beat the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the sphere, and if it is, the pyramid is not its obvious replacement.
That said, yes, pyramids are dope.