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* In one ''WesternAnimation/ScrewySquirrel'' cartoon, Screwy escapes from an insane asylum whose buildings spell out NUTZ.

* ''Radio/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' tells us the headquaerters 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.

* ''Radio/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' tells us the headquaerters 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.

** There is also the head offices of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation, which owing to unforeseen problems, now appear to spell out "Go Stick Your Head in a Pig" in the local language.

* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': The reason [[BigBad 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 a H-building (courtesy of his [[TheStarscream 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.

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

* The head-offices of the publishers who make the eponymous book ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/WordWorld'' takes place in a world where everything is made out of the word itself, and that also includes the houses the characters live in.

* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': The reason [[BigBad 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 a H-building (courtsey of his [[TheStarscream 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.

** There is also the head offices of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation, whoch owing to unforeseen problems, now appear to spell out "Go Stick Your Head in a Pig" in the local language.

* The Reboot ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperheroes'' had [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/43/c7/84/43c784f2fd19cd6f59e969ef87b8aec2--popular-legion.jpg an HQ]] that looked like the Legion L-symbol from above. (And if viewed from an angle.)

* ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne2018'': As part of the society's acute case of SigilSpam, the main building for Innovative Online Industries follows an "IOI" shape.

* IOI from ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'' has '''three''' of these, lined 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.

* ''ComicBook/{{Orphanimo}}'': The reason [[BigBad 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 a H-building (courtesey of his [[TheStarscream 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.

* In AmalgamComics, ''X-Patrol'', the ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol''/''Comicbook/XForce'' amalgam (which also included a lot of ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' elements) was based in the X-Building.

* The head-offices of the publishers who make the eponymous book ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is shaped like a capital H, although why its 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.

* The Anime adaptation of ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' shows that the 3WA headquarters are a set of buildings that when viewed from above spell out "WWWA".

* A numerical example; during the late 80s, the ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' 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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* Occasionally, some structures in ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' may appear to be shaped into the word 'SPIRIT'.

* The head-offices of the publishers who make the eponymous book ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is shaped like a capital H, although why its shaped like this and not some alien lettering is never explained, but could be down to just another universal coincidence.

* The buildings of Dictionopolis in ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth''.

* Taken UpToEleven in the M Dimension, one of many alternate universes [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls The Author of]] [[Literature/GravityFallsJournal3 Journal 3]] drifted through. In that reality, ''everything''- buildings, people, household objects- was shaped like an M. The Author found his experience there extremely frustrating.

* 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).

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