History Main / AlphabetArchitecture

[[caption-width-right:350:[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Titans Tower, territory tailormade to the Teen Titans' tastes.]]]]

* IOI from ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'' has '''three''' of these, lned up to spell out their initials. This is true both in the read world and on OASIS.

* Related, the first five dungeons of the original [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda]]'s second quest spell Z-E-L-D-A, one letter per dungeon.

** 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.

* In post-Crisis ''ComicBook/{{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.

* The Lexcorp building in ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'' is shaped like the letter L ([[SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor guess what that stands for?]]).

* A numerical example; during the late 80s, the ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' had rebuilt their headquarters when the Baxter Building was destroyed by DoctorDoom. They renamed their building Four Freedoms Plaza, and the top stories were shaped like the numeral 4.

* In ''ComicBook/{{My Little Pony|FriendshipIsMagicIDW}}'' Annual 2014, the headquarters of the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]] is shaped like two imbricated Ps.

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[[AC: {{Advertising}}]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NKkHuB2_Pk This advert]] from Fiat near the end shows a group of cream coloured buildings in a bouncing cityscape arranged to spell out the words "Safe Solid Beautiful".

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* The headquarters of the ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'', both in the animated series and eventually carried over into the comics, is shaped like a big capital T.
** Titan Tower was later parodied in the comic book ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' with the team's "Z-Building".
* In post-Crisis ''Comicbook/{{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.

[[AC: {{Literature}}]]

* IOI from ReadyPlayerOne has ''three'' of these, lned up to spell out their initials. This is true both in the read world and on OASIS.

[[AC: LiveActionTV]]

* ''LiveActionTV/SesameStreet'' had an animation, 'We All Live In A Capital I'.
** ''We all live in a capital I, In the middle of the desert, In the center of the sky.''

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[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
* In 90s cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheBOTSMaster'', big evil corporation RM Corp has two positively massive skyscrapers side-by-side in the shape of an R and an M.

* A ''Super Chicken'' cartoon on ''GeorgeOfTheJungle'' 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".

[[AC: RealLife]]

[[AC: RealLife]]
* In India, the state's government plan to raise the building of Tamil University at Thanjavur in the form of the state's name in Tamil letters, when seen from above. 5 buildings, to spell out "Tamizh Nadu" on a 1,000-acre campus.

* In post-Crisis ''Comicbook/{{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.
* A numerical example; during the late 80s, the ''FantasticFour'' had rebuilt their headquarters when the Baxter Building was destroyed by DoctorDoom. They renamed their building Four Freedoms Plaza, and the top stories were shaped like the numeral 4.

* In post-Crisis ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'', Lex Luthor's Lexcorp building was shaped like an 'L' if you looked down on it. The top of the building slopes in a sharp diagonal to emphasize the 'L' shape.

* In post-Crisis ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'', Lex Luthor's Lexcorp building was shaped like an 'L' if you looked down on it. The top of the building slopes in a sharp diagonal to emphasize the 'L' shape.
* A numerical example; during the late 80s, the ''FantasticFour'' had rebuilt their headquarters after it was destroyed by DoctorDoom. They renamed their building Four Freedoms Plaza, and the top stories were shaped like the numeral 4.

* In post-Crisis ''Comicbook/Superman'', Lex Luthor's Lexcorp building was shaped like an 'L' if you looked down on it. The top of the building slopes in a sharp diagonal to emphasize the 'L' shape.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' 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)

* The Lexcorp building in ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'' is shaped like the letter L ([[SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor guess what that stands for?]])

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' "Emperor Joker", a near omnipotent Joker reshapes some buildings in Gotham City to spell "Joker" during his VillainSong.

* The animated ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''' Titans Tower.

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* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' "Emperor Joker", a near omnipotent Joker reshapes some buildings in Gotham City to spell "Joker" during his VillainSong.

** Titan Tower was later parodied in the comic book ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew with the team's "Z-Building".

* The headquarters of the ''Comics/TeenTitans'', both in the animated series and eventually carried over into the comics, is shaped like a big capital T.
** Titan Tower was later parodied in the comic book ''Comics/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew with the team's "Z-Building".

A subtrope of {{Bizarrchitecture}}.