utopian usonia
Beautiful tour of the Bertha & Sol Friedman Residence in the Usonia community of Pleasantville, NY, narrated by the owner of the house, Brian Renz. The house, built in 1948, is one of Frank Lloyd...
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frank lloyd wright in AZ
I took advantage of a brief trip to Arizona to see a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most interesting round houses. First off, though, was a visit to Taliesen West, Wright’s winter studio/workshop in...
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restoring the house of tomorrow
In the early 1930s, the house of the future, as conceived of by architect George Fred Keck, was round (or, technically, 12-sided) and had floor-to-ceiling exterior glass walls. Dubbed the House of...
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a dome with portholes
Ukrainian designer Anastasiya Dudik has built a futuristic dome in the California desert. I especially like the interior, with super high ceilings and an exhilarating view – The floor plan shows its...
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groove in the round
The ultimate party house, a round house built in the 1950s by legendary comedian Jackie Gleason, just hit the market. With three bars, three fireplaces, and a round marble dance floor, the place “was...
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geodesica + 1
Coincidentally, another Gilbert Spindel-designed mid-century round house — a Geodesica — is also for sale, this one in Lake Charles, Louisiana – Built in 1964, the house underwent a top to bottom...
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mid-century mod
A mid-century modern round house, designed in 1960 by engineer and entrepreneur Gilbert Spindel, is now on the market in Shawnee, Oklahoma – Dubbed the Geodesica, the house’s blue prints were...
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curves inside and out
Beijing-based architecture firm Penda China has designed a beautiful variation on circularity – Called House O, the curves of its outer walls are echoed by curving inner walls and a swooping staircase –
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round house memento
This milk bottle cap is a memento of a long-closed dairy, which itself was named after an even older, no longer extant, round house – The Round House Dairy, in Newport, Rhode Island, opened in 1926...
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Off-beat and off grid
Speaking of Airform-like houses — this off-grid concrete dome in Rainier, Washington, also took the same basic approach to building a circular dwelling, spraying concrete over a sort of inflated...
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dome home
A new dome house — apparently called Domed House — is being built in Dover Plains, in NY’s Hudson Valley region – The house is extremely reminiscent of Wallace Neff’s innovative Airform House —...
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island home
Sweet little cylindrical house on Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand –
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the ultimate round house
Round houses with privacy, breathtaking ocean views, a fascinating history — and they’re being given away for free — sign me up!
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Aloha
Indulge me while I dream of living in a round house that looks out over the ocean in Hawaii –
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make your home in a dome
Here’s one for sale on Coyote Street (between Fox Street and Bobcat Street), in Opal, Wyoming – The same house seen from above –
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nothing square in nature
A 1920 article from the Victoria Daily, a Canadian newspaper, described the round houses designed by New Orleans architect C.N. Wisner. Pointing to the fact that “nature doesn’t make things square,”...
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and what-have-you
Architect Rudolph Matern — sometimes working with architects Herman York, Samuel Paul and others — was responsible for the design of tens of thousands of suburban homes during the US’s post-WWII...
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casa higienica
For these surreal times, a house that has been compared to the sought-after bathroom item many have stockpiled: Casa Barría, Panama – Designed by Mallol & Wolfschoon in 1986, it was built in 1990.
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crumbling communist icon
A striking circular structure, the communist-era Buzludzha Monument, in Bulgaria, has been allowed to fall apart –
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