Building Design

What the picker offers

• Type — the row of buttons across the top. House, commercial, tower and so on; which types are offered depends on what the plot can actually take.
• Width, depth and floors — sliders, shown only for building types that have a size to set. They are capped by the plot: you cannot build wider than the land you own, so a small plot simply offers a shorter slider rather than letting you make something that will not fit.
• Architect — the left column of thumbnails. Each one is a different design house with its own shapes, materials and habits. This is the choice that decides what the building actually looks like.
• Garden — the right column. What goes in the space around the building: hedges, walls, planting, a drive, a bare yard.
• 🎲 Random — rolls the type, the architect and the garden all at once. The fast path, and a good way to see what the city has in it.

Select commits; Cancel leaves the plot as it was. Building is instant — there is no construction queue to wait out.

Shop parades

Some plots are not one building but a row of shop units. On those the picker swaps the two thumbnail columns for a checklist of shops — tick the ones you want, up to what the plot will hold, and the panel tells you how many you have left. There is a dice in the corner of that band too, which fills the plot with a random group.

Shops matter beyond decoration: a couple of them are where the missions live.

The other ways in

You do not have to be in the Builder task to change a building. Click any building in the overview and its panel offers Design (the same picker), 🎲 for a straight random replacement, and ✕ Demolish Building. Delete demolishes whatever is selected.

On a block you created yourself, ✕ Demolish Sector clears the whole block at once — every plot on it.