From sculptural museums in Abu Dhabi to mass-timber megastructures in Osaka, 2025 is packed with ambitious architecture that blends form, narrative, and performance. In this article, we’ll look at 10 influential architectural directions represented by major 2025 projects and show you how to recreate those styles with Nano Banana Pro on RunDiffusion.
You’ll get:
- A quick overview of the style and architect behind each direction
- Key visual traits to focus on
- Example prompts tailored for Nano Banana Pro on RunDiffusion
- Suggestions for where to take these outputs next inside the RunDiffusion ecosystem
Getting Started: Nano Banana Pro for Architectural Imagery
Nano Banana Pro is part of the Suite of AI tools on RunDiffusion, powered by Gemini 3. It’s designed for fast, high-quality generations with strong composition and detail ideal for architectural concepting and visualization.
1. Sculptural Museum Icon
Inspired by: Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (Frank Gehry)
Style snapshot
Frank Gehry’s work often feels like frozen motion fragmented volumes, bold metallic surfaces, and highly expressive compositions. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi amplifies this language at an enormous scale, combining sculptural forms with filtered light and layered interior spaces.
Key visual traits
- Overlapping, irregular volumes
- Metallic cladding (titanium, aluminum, brushed steel)
- Strong contrast between sun and shadow
- Dramatic silhouettes against the sky
Nano Banana Pro prompt
“Foreground a coastline of water, midground smooth flat shiny beige surface with people walking on them, a barrel arch entrance with a titantium ceiling supported by ribbed sandstone lattice work that connects to a windowless smooth sandstone rectangle buildings between them cylinder and concave titanium shells, background a gold cylinder between two large smooth standstone buildings without windows all interconnected, remember no windows, the architecture is in the style of Frank Gehry”
2. Bioclimatic Desert Monument
Inspired by: Sheikh Zayed National Museum (Foster + Partners)
Style snapshot
This type of project fuses monumental vertical forms with environmental performance. Tall, fin-like elements act as both symbolic markers and passive cooling devices, rooted in the desert context.
Key visual traits
- Slender towers or fins rising from a low base
- Sandstone, concrete, or muted desert tones
- Strong, clear sun with deep shadows
- Hints of passive ventilation or environmental logic
Nano Banana Pro prompt
“ Foreground: A slender, gently arched pedestrian bridge with a smooth precast concrete deck and integrated linear lighting, extending over calm water toward the museum site. Include two small human figures for scale, positioned along the bridge’s balustrade.
Midground: A landscaped podium composed of terraced desert topography interwoven with a building with palm trees, low retaining walls, and illuminated pathway edges. Use stratified sandstone finishes and recessed stair sequences leading upward toward the base of the towers.
Background: Five monumental wing-shaped architectural towers. Each tower has an elliptical plan and a tall hyperbolic-paraboloid profile that sweeps backward like feathers. They taper upward, with razor-thin leading edges and open ribbed steel diagrid latticework along the trailing edge. Warm internal illumination glows through the perforated metal and structural ribs, producing a gradient of amber light across the curved surfaces.
Overall composition: Emphasize the contrast between the heavy, earth-integrated sandstone podium and the lightweight aerodynamic metallic towers rising above it. Render at blue-hour dusk with soft sky gradients, warm artificial lighting from within the tower shells, long raking shadows across the landscaped podium”
3. Mass-Timber Megastructure Ring
Inspired by: Grand Ring for Expo 2025 (Sou Fujimoto)
Style snapshot
Sou Fujimoto’s Grand Ring turns architecture into a walkable, circular landscape—a huge timber loop that combines pavilion, infrastructure, and park.
Key visual traits
- Circular or looping structure
- Exposed timber beams and latticework
- Integrated greenery and elevated walkways
- People walking along the ring, framed by sky and water
Nano Banana Pro prompt
“Aerial view of a giant circular timber ring structure on an island, inspired by Sou Fujimoto. Exposed mass timber beams forming a continuous elevated walkway with trees and planting, people strolling on top, water and city skyline in the background, soft afternoon light, architectural visualization.”
4. Green Mega-Infrastructure Terminal
Inspired by: Techo International Airport (Foster + Partners)
Style snapshot
Contemporary airports are becoming gentle megastructures large roof canopies, tree-like columns, daylight-focused interiors, and clear circulation. Southeast Asia is becoming a hub of interesting Architecture.
Key visual traits
- Vast, flowing roof with skylights
- “Tree” or “trunk” columns branching near the top
- Warm, filtered daylight
- Minimal, legible wayfinding and open concourses
Nano Banana Pro prompt
A monumental airport terminal, featuring a vast repeating series of scalloped umbrella vaults. Each vault consists of a parabolic shell with a soft undulating roofline, forming a rhythmic sequence of concave and convex curves across the entire canopy. The underside of each vault includes deep coffered timber textures and radial structural ribs converging onto slender tree-like columns with branching capitals.
In the midground, show an elevated arrivals platform lined with planters and cascading vegetation, supported by round concrete piers. Behind the vaults, integrate tall arched glazing panels and clerestory openings that allow diffused daylight to wash across the interior concourses.
In the foreground, depict lush tropical landscaping with dense palms and flowering shrubs, partially revealing the lower ground-level departures area with cars, buses, and shaded drop-off lanes. Render in bright daytime lighting with soft shadows, clear skies, cinematic architectural perspective emphasizing the grand scale and rhythmic vault geometry.
5. Topographic Opera Roofscape
Inspired by: Shanghai Grand Opera House (Snøhetta)
Style snapshot
Snøhetta often blurs architecture and landscape. The opera house’s fan-shaped roof doubles as a public terrace, inviting people to occupy the building exterior.
Key visual traits
- Gently sloping roof pedestrians can access
- Large steps, ramps, or terraces
- Integration of water, plazas, or greenery at ground level
- Cultural building embedded in public space
Nano Banana Pro prompt
Ground-level view of a monumental cultural building with a massive sweeping cantilevered terrace on the right. The terrace is formed from tightly stacked horizontal concrete plates that extend outward in a stepped, fan-like pattern. The underside curves into a smooth parabolic bowl where the layered plates converge, creating a dramatic sculptural overhang.
Below the cantilever, include tall vertical glass fins forming a transparent façade. To the left, place a simple rectilinear white building block with a large cut-out opening and shallow terraced steps leading up to it. The foreground features a long stone-paved walkway framed by trees and soft landscaping, with crowds of people dispersed across the plaza and upper terraces. Bright daytime lighting with crisp shadows, clear sky, wide-angle perspective.
6. Pavilion Garden Urbanism
Inspired by: Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art (BIG)
Style snapshot
This style breaks down the museum into pavilions and bridges, echoing classical gardens—water, islands, walkways, and framed views.
Key visual traits
- Clustered pavilion volumes
- Walkways over water
- Strong reflection and mirrored surfaces
- Composition emphasizing paths and views
Nano Banana Pro prompt
Aerial view of a cluster of pavilion buildings with sweeping hyperbolic-paraboloid roofs with sharp edges. Each roof is a thin, lightweight concrete shell that curves upward at the corners, creating elegant saddle-shaped forms. Arrange the roofs at varying heights and rotations so they overlap like layered petals.
Below the roofs, use continuous floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls that wrap each pavilion. Integrate lush greenery and narrow landscaped pathways between the buildings. Soft daylight with gentle shadows across the curved roof surfaces, wide-angle overhead perspective.
7. Narrative Adaptive Reuse
Inspired by: FENIX Museum of Migration (MAD Architects)
Style snapshot
This direction combines existing warehouses or industrial shells with a new, highly expressive architectural insertion—often a stair, bridge, or rooftop structure—used to tell a story.
Key visual traits
- Historic brick or concrete base
- Bold sculptural stair / addition
- Contrast between old and new
- Clear narrative theme (movement, migration, history)
Nano Banana Pro prompt
Eye-level architectural view of rectangle shaped brick building and on top of it large looping metallic stainless-steel structure resembling layered ailen ships. The base building is long and rectilinear with industrial windows, warm brick facades, and a simple horizontal roofline.
8. Big-Frame Cultural Box
Inspired by: Powerhouse Parramatta (Moreau Kusunoki & Genton)
Style snapshot
Large, rectilinear frames, tall volumes, and column-free “presentation spaces” define this type of cultural infrastructure. The emphasis is on structural legibility and flexible interiors.
Key visual traits
- Overscaled structural frame or exoskeleton
- Large glazed openings and voids
- High ceilings and minimal columns
- Industrial but refined materials
Nano Banana Pro prompt
“Large riverfront cultural building with a strong exposed structural frame and tall, column-free interior halls. Mix of glass, steel, and warm timber, open floor plates for exhibitions, visitors exploring flexible spaces, overcast daylight, contemporary cultural infrastructure style, 16:9 architectural render.”
9. Ultra-Open Museum Retrofit
Inspired by: New Fondation Cartier (Ateliers Jean Nouvel)
Style snapshot
Here the focus is on reworking historic urban fabric from within—removing floors, adding platforms, and turning a solid block into a porous, open environment.
Key visual traits
- Heritage street-facing facade
- Large interior voids and suspended platforms
- Visual connections across multiple levels
- Controlled, gallery-friendly daylight
Nano Banana Pro prompt
street-level view of a classic Parisian building. Symmetrical limestone façade with five stories, tall vertical windows, decorative stone frames, and continuous wrought-iron balcony railings on the second and fifth floors. Ground level features a deep arcade with repeating stone arches and recessed storefronts behind them. Include a steep mansard roof with grey zinc cladding and regularly spaced dormer windows. Surrounding context includes adjacent Haussmann buildings, small cafés, bicycles, and Parisian street details. Bright daytime lighting, clear sky, crisp façade shadows, centered elevation view.
10. Memory-Laden Civic Infrastructure
Inspired by: Asiat-Darse Bridge (Counterspace / Sumayya Vally)
Style snapshot
Small-scale infrastructure—like a pedestrian bridge—used as a vessel for memory, migration stories, or cultural narratives. Forms are often symbolic, fragmentary, or “seed-like.”
Key visual traits
- Fragmented or sculptural bridge elements
- References to boats, seeds, or artifacts
- Integration with landscape and water
- Intimate human scale with strong symbolic intent
Nano Banana Pro prompt
Side view of a large civic walkway composed of multiple dark concrete canoe-like vessels placed side by side to form a broad continuous platform across the water with a cement walking path across them. Each vessel is a heavy cast-concrete shell with a tapered hull profile. The canoe and path zig zag across the water. The canoes touch and overlap slightly at their edges, creating a wide sculptural surface rather than a linear footbridge. The bridge has a new finished quality not weathered. Soft overcast lighting with mist. People walking across the path, with natural plans and reeds.
Polishing Your Results with Runnit Tools
Once you’ve generated base images with Nano Banana Pro, you can take them further using many of our numerous tools on RunDiffusion. These options let you elevate concepts into polished architectural stills or cinematic sequences all inside the RunDiffusion cloud.
Magnific – Detail Enhancement and Texture Reinvention
Use Magnific to enhance material richness and fine textural detail.
- Improves concrete, wood, steel, and glazing realism
- Adds depth and clarity without geometric distortion
- Great for turning early concepts into presentation-ready stills
Topaz Upscaler – Clean Lines and Print-Ready Output
Topaz-based upscaling excels when your architectural image needs polished clarity.
- Very sharp edges for façades and structure
- Low-noise rendering for large-format prints
- Perfect for portfolios, diagrams, and boards
- Also offers a Video Upscaler
Use it as the final still-image finishing step.
Video Tools: From Still Frames to Cinematic Architecture
VEO 3.0 & 3.1 – Cinematic Text-to-Video for Architecture
VEO 3.0 and 3.1 expands static Nano Banana Pro concepts into dynamic architectural sequences.
- Smooth camera motions (dollies, pans, aerial sweeps)
- Atmospheric effects like fog, clouds, and light shifts
- Great for environmental storytelling and concept videos
Bytedance Seedance – Expressive Motion & Artistic Movement
Bytedance Seedance specializes in fluid, expressive motion layered on top of architecture-driven content.
- Adds stylized motion, choreography, and flowing energy
- Enhances movement in water, foliage, reflections, and skies
- Ideal for dramatic architectural mood films or design competitions
- Fixed Camera allows you to get the perfect static shot.
Learn more about Bytedance Seedance.
LTX-2 Retake – High-End Video Refinement for Architecture
After generating a sequence with VEO or Seedance, use LTX-2 + Retake to refine and correct the scene.
- Allows video editing for clips up to 16 seconds.
- Add effects, characters or objects to an existing video.
- Refines lighting or materials across frames
With Nano Banana Pro for ideation, Magnific and Topaz for upscaling, and VEO 3.1 or Bytedance Seedance for videos, finallyLTX-2 Retake for last minute edits, you have a complete architectural visualization pipeline end to end on RunDiffusion.
Article and Tool coming soon for LTX-2 Retake.
