The advancements in mass digital and physical surveillance technologies are rapidly integrating into urban complexities. Surveillance as an evolving construct is formulated as a device for insight or observation for security or intelligence. Its adoption into urban spaces has questioned social privacy and inflicted an atmosphere of anxious exteriors. Surveillance systems and security logistics have utilized architecture as an armature, changing the way architecture is experienced, designed, and practiced. Surveillance systems have been utilized in practice and design as networks of security and social order. However, indirectly a state of anxious and defensive architecture has been implemented into the arrangements of urban settings. Methods of surveillance have rapidly changed the way digital environments have interacted with their specified users and have increasingly gained prevalence in their formulations as physical architectures. CCTV, Private cameras, public surveillance, data mining, satellite imagery, health monitoring devices, audio-activated technology, and face recognition are some of the few advancements in modernity. Surveillance and its emerging prevalence as a mode or tool to design architecture could provide interesting arrangements that illustrate narratives of transparent coexistence and technological dialogue.