Building Types

Agricultural buildings

• Abbatoir

• Barn

• Chicken coop or chickenhouse

• Cow-shed

• Farmhouse

• Granary, Hórreo

• Greenhouse

• Hayloft

• Pigpen or sty

• Root cellar

• Shed

• Silo

• Slaughterhouse

• Stable

• Storm cellar

• Well house

• Crib

• Windmill

Civic buildings

• Automobile repair shop

• Arcade

• Car wash

• Convention center

• Filling station

• Forum

• Hotel

• Lodge

• Internet cafe

• Market

• Market house

• Pharmacy

• Skyscraper

• Shop

• Shopping mall

• Supermarket

• Warehouse

• Restaurant

• Office

• Hairdressers

• Cinema

Residential buildings

• Apartment block

• Block of flats

• Bungalow

• Condominium

• Duplex

• House - see List of house types

• Townhouse

• Unit

• Villa

• Orphanage

Medical buildings

• Psychiatric hospital

• Hospital

• Nursing Home

• Asylum

• Doctors office

• Dentist

• Orthodontist

• Rehabilitation centre

Educational buildings

• Archive

• College

• Secondary School

• Library

• Museum

• Art gallery

• Theater (building)

• Amphitheater

• Concert hall

• Cinema

• Elementary schools

• University

Government buildings

• City hall

• Consulate

• Courthouse

• Embassy

• Fire station

• Meeting house

• Moot hall

• Parliament house

• Police station

• Post office

• Prison

• Assembly

Industrial buildings

• Brewery

• Factory

• Foundry

• Power plant

• Winery

• Mill

• Water Tower

• Refinery

Military buildings

• Arsenal

• Barracks

• Bunker

• Blockhouse

• Citadel

• Missile launch facility

Parking structures and storage

• Boathouse

• Garage

• Hangar, of aircraft or spacecraft

• Storage silo

• Parking Lot

Religious buildings

• Church

• Basilica

• Cathedral

• Duomo

• Chapel

• Oratory

• Martyrium

• Mosque

• Mihrab

• Surau

• Imambargah

• Monastery

• Mithraeum

• Shrine

• Synagogue

• Temple

• Pagoda

• Gurdwara

• Hindu temples

Transport buildings

• Airport terminal

• Bus station

• Metro (subway, underground) station

• Taxi station

• Railway station (or, primarily in US, Railroad station)

• Signal box

• Lighthouse

• Parking garage

Non-buildings

• Bridges

• Arenas

• Amusement Parks

Infrastructure

• Data centre

Power Providers

• Fossil-fuel power station

• Nuclear power plant

• Geothermal power

• Biomass-fuelled power plant

• Waste heat power plant

• Renewable energy power station

Others

• Bakery

• Beauty salon

• Bookstore or bookshop

• Clinic

• Community hall

• Department store

• Eatery

• Fast-food restaurant

• Film studio

• Floristry

• Folly

• Food court

• Gym

• Hospice

• Hospital

• Hypermarket

• Mini market

• Office building

• Pizzeria

• Plant nursery

• Pub

• Bathhouse

• Skyscraper

• Stall

• Sport club

• Bar

• Wet market

• Workshop

• Game Store

Detached single-unit housing

Main article: Single-family detached home

• A-frame:

• Addison house:

• Airey house:

• American Colonial

• Georgian Colonial

• German Colonial

• Hall and parlor house

• New England Colonial

• Spanish Colonial

• French Colonial

• American Craftsman house

• American Foursquare

• Assam-type House:

• Barraca

• Barndominium:

• Bay-and-gable

• Bungalow:.

• California Bungalow

• Cape Cod:

• Cape Dutch:

• Castle:

• Cave dwelling, Chinese:

• Chalet bungalow:

• Charleston single house:.

• Chattel house:.

• Conch house:

• Converted barn:

• Cottage:.

• Creole cottage:.

• Cracker house

• Dacha:

• Dogtrot house:.

• Dwór (manor house):.

• Earth sheltered:

• Eyebrow house:

• Farmhouse:

• Faux chateau

• Federal

• Flounder house

• Frutighaus:

• Gablefront house

• Gambrel:.

• Geodesic dome:.

• Georgian house:

• Geestharden house:

• Hall house

• Hanok:.

• Hawksley BL8 bungalow:

• I-house:

• Igloo:

• Indian vernacular

• Izba:

• Kit house:.

• Konak

• Kulla:.

• Laneway house:

• Link-detached:

• Linked houses: "

• Log home, Log cabin

• Lustron house

• Manor house:

• Mansion:

• Maisonette:

• McMansion:.

• Manufactured house:

• Mews property:

• Microhouse

• Monolithic dome:

• Microapartment:

• Minka:

• Mudhif:

• Octagon house

• Ontario Cottage:

• Patio house

• Pit-house:.

• Plank house:.

• Pole house:.

• Prefabricated house

• Queenslander

• Ranch:

• Roundhouse:.

• Saltbox:.

• Split-level house.

• "Sears Catalog Home":

• Shack:

• Shotgun house:

• Single-family detached home:

• Souterrain:.

• Spanish Colonial Revival architecture:

• Stilt houses

• Snout house:

• Splits

• Backsplit:.

• Frontsplit:.

• Sidesplit:

• Storybook house:.

• Tipi

• Tree house:.

• Trullo:.

• Tudor Revival architecture:.

• Tuscan

• Umgebinde.

• Underground home:.

• Unit:.

• Unity house:

• Uthland-Frisian house:

• Vernacular house:.

• Victorian house

• Villa:.

• Villa Palladiana:

• Villa Veneta.

• Wealden hall house:.

• Wimpey house

• Yaodong

• Yurt:

Semi-detached dwellings

Main article: Semi-detached

• Council house:.

• Duplex house:

• Two decker.

• Semi-detached:.

Attached single-unit housing

• Byre-dwelling:

• Connected farm:.

• Housebarn:

• Longhouse:.

Attached multi-unit housing

Main article: Multi-family residential

• Apartment:

• Apartment building,.

• Aul:.

• Barracks:.

• Basement apartment:.

• Brownstone.

• Bedsit:

• Choultry:

• Close

• Cluster house:

• Condominium:

• Court:.

• Deck access:

• Flat:.

• 2-Flat, 3-Flat, and 4-Flat houses:.

• Four Plus One:

• Garage-apartment:.

• Garalow:  .

• Garden apartment:.

• Garden flat:.

• Housing cooperative (or Co-op):.

• Housing project:  (aka Public housing or Social housing).

• Live Work:.

• Ksar:

• Loft or warehouse conversion.

• Maisonette:.

• Mess:.

• Mother-in-law apartment:

• Officetel:.

• Penthouse:

• Plattenbau (East German) / Panelák (Czech, Slovak):

• Q-type: townhouse.

• Railroad apartment (or railroad flat):

• Rooming house:

• Rowhouse (USA); also called "Terraced home" (USA); also called "Townhouse": Shophouse:

• Single Room Occupancy or SRO:

• Six-pack:.

• Studio apartment or Studio flat (UK), or Bachelor apartment or Efficiency apartment:

• Tenement:.

• Terraced house.

• Back-to-back.

• Tower block.

• Townhouse:.

• Stacked townhouse:.

• Three family home or Three family house: :

• Triple decker:

• Two decker:

• Tyneside flat:

Multifamily home features

• Tong Lau(唐樓 / 騎樓):.

• "Toothpick Apartments":.

• Unit:.

• Vatara:.

Movable dwellings

• Park home, also called Mobile home:

• Tent:.

• Tiny house:

• Travel trailer or Caravan

• Yurt or Ger:.

• Houseboat: includes float houses

See also

• Cohousing

• Company town

• City block

• Home

• House

• Gated community

• Intentional Community

• List of house styles

• Planned Unit Development

• Real estate

• List of human habitation forms

• Spite house, which may or may not be attached to other structures

• Sustainable design

• Timeshare,

Permanent

• Airport

• Barracks, may also be mobile, a cantonment or military camp

• Bed and breakfast, or B&B (French: Chambre d'hôtes)

• Boarding house

• Bothy

• Bungalow

• Castle

• Cave

• Yaodong

• Chalet

• Château

• Choultry

• Condominium

• Converted barn

• Cottage

• County jail

• Domus

• Dormitory

• Dugout

• Earth house

• Earth sheltering

• Farm stay

• Flophouse

• Guest house

• Hospital

• Hospitality service, or hospitality exchange

• Hostal

• Hostel

• Hotel

• Apartment hotel

• Boutique hotel

• Capsule hotel

• Casino hotel

• Love hotel

• House, or home

• Housebarn

• Housing tenure or rented accommodation

• Apartment

• Bedsit

• Communal apartment

• Council house

• Flatshare, also called shared housing or shared accommodation

• Public housing

• Share house

• Single room occupancy

• Tenancy

• Hut

• Slab hut

• Inn

• Insula

• Log cabin

• Log house

• Longhouse

• Mansion

• Mini dorm

• Monastery

• Moroccan riad

• Motel

• Nursing home

• Orphanage

• Palace

• Pension

• Pit-house

• Prison

• Cell

• Psychiatric hospital

• Public house

• Inn

• Resort

• Retirement home

• Roundhouse

• Ryokan,

• Safari lodge

• Sanatorium

• Sod house

• Stilt house

• Timeshare

• Train station

• Tree house

• Turbaza

• Underground living

• Vacation rental

• Villa

Semi-permanent

• Beach hut

• Bivouac shelter

• Emergency shelter

• Igloo

• Mobile home

• Ramada

• Snow cave

• Tent city

• Quinzhee

Mobile

• Airplane

• Automobile

• Bender tent

• Boat

• Bus

• Campervan

• Campsite

• Car

• Ferry

• Hot air balloon

• Houseboat, including float houses

• Mobile home

• Portable building

• Public transport

• Recreational vehicle

• RV park

• Ship

• Cruise ship

• Ocean liner

• Spacecraft

• Tent

• Train

• Passenger car, also called a train carriage

• Sleeping car

• Travel trailer

Traditional tent types

• Bell tent

• Chum

• Fly

• Goahti

• Kohte

• Lavvu

• Loue

• Nomadic tents

• Pandal

• Sibley tent

• Tarp tent

• Tipi

• Wigwam

• Yurt

Light-weight materials

• Bivouac sack

• Blanket

• Roof tent

• Sleeping bag

• Tarp tent

• Tarpaulin

Homelessness

• Barn

• Bus station

• Bus stop

• Cardboard box (housing)

• Dumpster

• Homeless shelter

• Refugee camp

• Shipping container

• Sleeping rough

• Squatting

• Stable

See also

• Accommodation (disambiguation)

• Amusement park

• Architecture

• Building

• Buy to let

• Destination spa

• Discrimination against the homeless

• Dwelling

• Earthquake engineering

• Habitation (disambiguation)

• Homelessness

• Hospitality industry

• House in multiple occupation

• List of building types

• List of buildings and structures

• List of house types

• Lodging

• Modular building

• Occupancy

• Open-source architecture

• Prefabricated building

• Sanctuary

• Shelter (building)

• Single room occupancy

• Tourism

• Underground living

• United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Examples

• Aerial lift pylon

• Aqueduct (water supply)

• Arena

• Barriers[2]

• Blast furnaces

• Bleacher

• Boat lifts

• Brick kilns

• Bridges[3] and bridge-like structures (aqueducts, overpasses, trestles, viaducts, etc.)

• Bus shelters

• Canal

• Building canopies

• Carport

• Chimneys and flue-gas stacks

• Coke ovens

• Communications tower

• Covered bridges[3]

• Cranes

• Dams

• Dock (maritime)

• Dolphin (structure)

• Electricity grid

• Ferris wheels

• Ferry slip

• Flume

• Fortification

• Fractionating towers

• Gates[2]

• Handrails[2]

• Hayrack

• Hay barrack

• Headframe

• Infrastructure

• Marina

• Monuments

• Mining

• Parking structures

• Oil depot

• Offshore oil platforms

• Pavilions[2]

• Piers[3]

• Radio masts and towers

• Railroads

• Ramada (shelter)

• Roads

• Roller coasters

• Retaining walls

• Silos[3]

• Snow shed

• Stadium

• Storage tanks

• Street lights[2]

• Street signs[2]

• Swimming pools[3]

• Structures designed to support, contain or convey liquid or gaseous matter, including

• Cooling towers

• Distillation equipment and structural supports at chemical and petrochemical plants

• oil refineries

• Tank farm

• Towers

• Tramways and Aerial tramways

• Transmission towers

• Triumphal arch

• Tunnels

• Underwater habitat

• Water towers[3]

• Wharves[3]

Exceptions

Dulles Airport control tower

"buildings" for life and fire safety purposes:

• Aviation control towers

• Factories

• Kiosks

• Lighthouses

• Outhouses

• Power stations

• Refineries

• Warehouses