Where to Find Architecture Helper's City Architecture Guides

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Architecture Helper's city architecture guides live under the City Guides section of the site, reachable from the main navigation. Each guide collects notable buildings, architectural styles, and design history for a given city, and shows how many buildings have been analyzed there. You can browse the full list from the City Guides index or jump straight to a city you care about.

What a City Guide Contains

A city guide is organized around the buildings people have analyzed in that city, not a generic travel write-up. For each city you'll typically see:

  • A count of analyzed buildings — for example, Savannah shows 72 buildings analyzed, Sydney 44, and Philadelphia 39.
  • The dominant styles found there — Savannah and Sydney both list Beaux-Arts and Victorian, while Philadelphia adds Neoclassical.
  • A style-by-style breakdown — so you can see which design language shows up most often in that place.

This makes the guides useful if you're researching a city's architecture, comparing regional styles, or looking for reference buildings before you analyze or restyle something yourself.

Cities Currently Covered

The City Guides index lists cities with their analyzed-building counts and leading styles. A sample of what's available:

City Buildings analyzed Notable styles listed
Savannah 72 Beaux-Arts, Victorian, Neoclassical, Colonial Revival
Sydney 44 Beaux-Arts, Victorian, Romanesque Revival
Philadelphia 39 Beaux-Arts, Victorian, Neoclassical
Toronto 38 Contemporary
Denver 37 Victorian
Den Haag 32 Victorian
Boston 30 Contemporary
Miami 30 Mediterranean Revival
Kraków 27 Gothic
Bruges 26 Gothic
San Diego 26 Beaux-Arts, Monterey Colonial Revival
Minneapolis 26 Contemporary
Barcelona 25 Art Nouveau
Singapore 22 Colonial Revival
Melbourne 21 Beaux-Arts
New Orleans 19 Victorian
Detroit 18 Beaux-Arts
New York 17 Modernism
Chicago 17 Art Deco
San Francisco 17 Art Deco
Amsterdam 14 Contemporary
Kansas City 13 Contemporary
Edinburgh 12 Victorian
Houston 12 Modernism
Atlanta 10 Contemporary
Los Angeles 9 Beaux-Arts
London 9 Gothic
Washington — Beaux-Arts

The list continues beyond these entries — use View All City Guides at the end of the index to see the complete set.

How to Reach the Guides

  1. Open the site's main navigation.
  2. Select City Guides.
  3. Browse the index, or pick a city to see its buildings, styles, and design history.

If you want to explore by style instead of by place, the same navigation includes Styles A–Z (49 architecture styles) and a Map view of buildings near you. The Building Library holds analyzed buildings, and Community Creations shows designs other users have generated.

When City Guides Are the Right Entry Point

Choose the city guides when your question is geographic — "what styles define Savannah," "which buildings in Sydney are worth studying," or "how does Philadelphia's architecture compare to Boston's." If instead you want to understand one specific building, upload a photo or address to Analyze a Building for a breakdown of its styles, history, and design details. If you want to create something new, Generate a design or Restyle my space are the relevant tools; the site notes your first analysis and first restyle are free and don't require an account, while unlimited analyses, designs, and restyles sit behind the paid Pricing option.