Think of flipping through an oversized, glossy yearbook, but this time it’s a building instead. It’s grinning with a set of steel-beamed teeth or showing off its features, putting on a carefully composed facade to reminisce about good old days at the Academy of Structural Excellence. These are not static forms; they are personalities dressed in concrete, stories framed in timber and glass. Here in this hypothetical world, all the buildings went through their cringe growth years, class rivalries, architecture crushes, and mythic prom photos. With the help of Dreamina’s AI image generator, we can give their high school memories of life and freeze each building’s most pivotal year.
Most likely to survive the apocalypse: brutalist gym
You know the one. Brooding, stoic, all hard angles and heavy walls. The brutalist gym did not crack a smile much in the corridors, but it was certain that everyone could rely on it to remain standing during breakdowns—structural or otherwise. Its motto of choice? “Reinforced, not remorseful.” The prom pictures catch it looking serious in dark shadows and concrete flash, refusing to stand alongside the fanciful art pavilion.
Stickers on lockers
Every senior class has inside humor, catchphrases, and the occasional prank battle. In our hypothetical school, buildings drew their mottos on blueprints and applied custom stickers to one another’s drafting tables. This is where Dreamina’s sticker maker comes into your world. With Dreamina’s software, you can create clever, spookhouse, or chic stickers for each building-student: “Concrete Is a Lifestyle,” “Ask Me About My Foundation,” or “Class of 1982 Earthquake-Tested.” Print them out, gather them up, or incorporate them into your final designs.
Logos on blueprints
What is a school without a logo to tie its heritage together? Employ Dreamina’s AI logo generator to create an emblem that will befit the entire graduating class. A gothic arch curved over a compass? A minimalist piece of marble inscribed with initials and year? Perhaps a bold abstract form that symbolizes growth in numbers. Bestow your make-believe institution with a sense of pride—every building should get to wear its badge with dignity, be it the modest bungalow or the pinnacled tower.
Step 1: Write a text prompt
Now it’s your turn to create this nostalgic world. Open Dreamina’s Image Generator and start creating the imagery of your fictional graduating class of buildings. Begin with a descriptive prompt that describes your scene. Attempt something more like: “Architectural yearbook photo of a brutalist gym building sporting a prom sash, spotlighted background, dramatic lighting, surrounded by whimsical classmates such as glass libraries and colorful pavilions.” Get specific with emotions, setting, and mood. Buildings have personalities here—don’t play it safe.
Step 2: Refine parameters and generate
After your prompt is written, it’s time to tweak the image’s composition. Pick a visual model that suits surreal storytelling—maybe one with softer corners if you’d like your gym to look more welcoming. Pick an aspect ratio that suits a yearbook layout; square is good for portraits, while landscape could be used for group photos of the graduating class. For resolution, begin with 1k for concept sketches, and use 2k for full-detail yearbook pages. When pleased, click “Generate” and see the past unfold before your eyes.
Step 3: Customize and download
Here’s where your yearbook spreads become truly personal. Use Dreamina’s customization tools to modify your image. Add vintage banners using “Inpaint,” stretch the background lawn with “Expand,” remove unwanted photobombers with “Remove,” or polish architectural edges using “Retouch.” Whether your library needs more ivy climbing its facade or your bungalow needs moodier lighting, you’re in control. When you’re ready to preserve the memory, tap the “Download” icon and save your illustrated page for future nostalgia.
Steel valedictorian: the scholarly library
It dominated the front of every lecture, glass face glistening with academic intensity. If you required a last-minute class diagram or life wisdom, this library was there for you—and 47,000 references to back up its claim. Everyone was certain it would graduate at the top of its class, and so it did, with a commencement speech quoting Le Corbusier and silencing the whole auditorium into respectful stillness. Its a thesis in architecture? “The Light Within: Translucency as a Form of Empathy.”
That one bungalow everyone dreaded
No one knows how the bungalow made it into the academy. It creaked and softly groaned. From afar, it was adorable—porch swing, picket fence—but too many classmates testified that it whispered when the wind blew just so. It’s not on Instagram. And yet somehow, its picture ended up in the yearbook, and it blinked. You could swear it blinked. The caption below? “Still standing.”
Senior pranks and pilfered blueprints
Let’s not pretend this was a quiet year. The green-topped amphitheater served as the site for a midnight rave with laser lights that made permanent rainbows on the skylight. The gym converted scaffolding into a wrestling ring. The serene public restroom pavilion somehow turned into the DJ booth. These experiences can all be planned as part of your visual world, adding pizzazz and history to your yearbook layout.
The yearbook that was never supposed to get stale
And suddenly, your make-believe buildings are graduating. They leave behind memories of laughter in their air ducts, boot marks in their tile corridors, and gangly prom pictures hung in woodgrain frames. With Dreamina, you’ve done something more than dream about a world—you’ve brought it to full visual life. These buildings will never be seen in your city’s skyline, but they reside in the world of feeling, style, and architecture that you made real.
The yearbook is done, but your design story? Just getting started.
