As a cultural city, Belfast is home to a range of architectural styles. It is predominantly a mix of Victorian and Edwardian buildings with other architectural style puncturing the cityscape including Georgian and Art Deco. within the city, the more political buildings follow in the styles of Classical and gothic architecture whereas the cultural buildings such as theatres fall within the victorian and Georgian decorative style. Although the city is considered Cultural it is also thought to be an industrial city with more industrial buildings towards the north around the dockyard and to the south-west of the city. 

With the city’s history of the conflict that is aspects of defensive architecture in the form of the peace lines that run through Belfast. These consist of walls and fence to parts of Belfast from others. The conflicts caused another major change within the city with the need for regeneration at the turn of the 21st century. The regeneration saw the city punctured with modern architecture such as the titanic museum and the Obel tower.