List of building types should not be confused with List of architectural styles.
See main article: Building. This is a list of building types. It is sorted by broad category: residential buildings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, and infrastructural buildings.
See main article: List of house types.
Examples of single-family detached house types include:
Commercial buildings, generally, are buildings used by businesses to sell their products to consumers.[1]
Office buildings are generally categorized by size and by quality (e.g., "a low-rise Class A building")[2]
Retail buildings are categorized by their configuration and size[5]
enclosed space; 800,000+ sqft; 5+ anchor stores with other tenants that sell a very large variety of goods
enclosed space; 400,000–800,000 sqft; 1–5 anchor stores with other tenants that sell a large variety of goods
open space; 125,000–400,000 sqft; provides general merchandise and commodities (e.g., supermarket, discount department store)
open space; 3,000–125,000 sqft; provides commodities to nearby neighborhoods (e.g. drug store)
open space; less than 30,000 sqft; located along suburban transportation arteries on shallow land parcels; a strip may be configured in a straight line, or have an "L" or "U" shape
"Main Street" concept with pedestrian circulation in core and vehicular circulation along perimeter; upscale national chain specialty stores, dining or entertainment (e.g. The Grove, Los Angeles, CA; Americana at Brand, Glendale, CA)
freestanding category-dominant retailer; 50,000+ sqft (e.g. The Home Depot, Target, Walmart)
among the largest types of retail properties; 3+ big box anchor stores; multiple large buildings with parking lot in front and loading in back; smaller retailers usually clustered in a community shopping center configuration
manufacturers' outlet stores; 50,000–400,000 sqft
a retail location designed to only be in a location temporarily (e.g., a retail store that only opens during a holiday season)
See main article: Hotel.
Industrial buildings are primarily used for the production and storage/distribution of goods, among other uses.[6]
See main article: Manufacturing.
See main article: Flex space.
Infrastructure buildings house equipment and facilities related to public infrastructure.
a traditional reed house made by the Madan people of Iraq