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round home moored to a hill
Under the title “Round Home Moored to a Hill,” Life magazine dedicated six pages to a Boulder, Colorado house designed by architect Charles Haertling in 1964. Neighbors had previously voiced vehement...
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buy a round house
The Orcutt House, in Worthington, Ohio, “comprises two interpenetrating circles.” Built in 1958, its design, by architect Theodore van Fossen, reflects Frank Lloyd Wright’s principles of organic...
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a 21st century iron age round house
In Alberta, Canada, the construction of an iron age round house - The materials include spruce, willow and poplar trees; the tools include billhooks, kukris, axes and a cell phone.
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robert moses in the round
In Long Island, New York, “an exercise in how to fit circles together” - Designed by architect Wallace K. Harrison in the 1930s, the Harrison Estate served as a laboratory for Harrison’s architectural...
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tomorrow’s life today
That’s how Life magazine described this 1957 modernist showpiece, designed by architect Cecil Alexander, who studied under Bauhaus masters Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius at Harvard in the 1940s -...
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variations on a circle
What do you call the negative space between three circles? That’s what this very interesting house represents. A collaborative effort by the Swiss firm HHF Architects and Chinese dissident artist Ai...
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caribbean round house
The floor plan of a maloca, or traditional round house, excavated at the Golden Rock site in St. Eustatius -
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o house
Not a circular house but a house with circles - Located in Vierwaldstättersee, Switzerland, the house was designed by Philippe Stuebi Architekten with Eberhard Tröger. Construction was completed in 2007.
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an artist’s round design
Plans for a round house in Arroyo Grande, California, from artist Donald Judd -
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a round icon disappears
Airport control towers are one of the few structures for which round design is the norm. While the circular form of La Guardia Airport’s 1964 control tower was, in itself, not surprising, the tower was...
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round landmark
Washington DC’s Historic Preservation Review Board is currently considering whether to grant landmark status to the city’s only round house - According to the Prince of Petworth blog, the house,...
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two fine cheeses
Built in the 1930s, the Martin Zech house near Sauk City, Wisconsin, is a two-story wood house with a cupola - A columnist in the Wisconsin State Journal described its idiosyncratic style in April...
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mid-century modernism in a civil rights suburb
Pioneering African-American architect Joseph W. Robinson designed this modernist round house in 1956, at a time when architecture as a profession was largely closed to black Americans - The house is...
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une maison ronde
A postcard dating from about 1910 shows a round house in Rixensart, Belgium - This very unusual house has since been torn down, unfortunately.
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buy a spaceship in the forest
Currently on sale for $1.2 million, this rotating dome in New Paltz can turn a full circle in five minutes. The house was built using a kit from France called Domespace and has bamboo floors, stone...
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une petite maison ronde
Le Chasseur Français, a French hunting magazine, ran an article on round houses in December 1950. The author, architect Gérard Tissoire, described a small round house, presumably of his own design, in...
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not a round house
A big swooping curve by architect Tetsuo Kondo - The piece was a temporary installation in Kadriorg Park near Tallinn, Estonia.
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a 1940s housing bubble
Wallace Neff, a Southern California architect who made Spanish-style mansions for Hollywood stars in the ’30s and ’40s, also tried his hand at designing innovative, low-cost housing for the poor. His...
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casa colunata
A new house in Lagos, Portugal, that manages to combine angularity with circularity - Designed by architect Mario Martins, the all-white structure is made of local materials and faces the sea.
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