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the big house
The Presidio Model, or model prison, was a round, panopticon-style penitentiary on the Isla de la Juventud in Cuba - Built between 1926 and 1928, it was closed in 1967 and now serves as a museum....
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radius house
Closer to a half-circle than a circle, the Radius House, built in 1958, was designed by architect Daniel J. Liebermann. An apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West, Liebermann was only 28...
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a surreal folie
The Broken Column house was built in about 1780 by aristocrat François Nicolas Henri Racine de Monville, who lived there until the French Revolution - Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, visited the...
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les pigeonniers ronds
Icons of nobility, the massive, circular dovecotes of northern France housed pigeons rather than people - Until the French Revolution stripped the aristocracy of its traditional privileges, only...
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iron age round houses
The archaeological site at Jarlshof, in the Shetland Isles, includes remains of Iron Age round houses that date from between 200 BC and 800 AD -
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west winds house
The West Winds House, a project by UK architecture firm Kirkland Fraser Moor, “explores the relationships between external and internal spaces and passive solar gain” -
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circular frank lloyd wright house in peril
Developers are threatening a historic round house in Arcadia, Arizona, designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Built for Wright’s son David in 1950-1952, the house is made of curved concrete...
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reprieve for frank lloyd wright round house
A deal was signed last week by the developer who owns the 1952 Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in Phoenix, and the city of Phoenix, which delays the demolition of the house for at least a month. The...
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round house for sale
$899,000 will buy you a 110-year-old round house in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC. It is a charming structure even though, as part of an unfortunate recent renovation, it was stripped of...
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an affinity for curves
The death of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer on December 5 means the loss of one of the world’s leading proponents of curved, rounded, wavy and spiraling forms. A modernist innovator, Niemeyer, who...
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organic architecture in ohio
The Orcutt House, on sale in Worthington, Ohio, consists of two intersecting circles, one forming the body of the house and the other forming a smaller kitchen area. Designed by architect Theodore van...
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sold!
A round house in Phoenix, Arizona, built by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright, sold for $2.38 million in late December 2012, saving it from demolition. One of the architect’s later works, the...
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the casa bola
This month’s edition of Apartamento magazine features an interview with Brazilian architect Eduardo Longo, who designed — and has lived for decades in — a spherical house in São Paulo. Built by Longo...
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a “mysterious” round house
Built sometime around 1904, torn down in 1967, the Round House (Ronde Huis) of Nunspeet, in the Netherlands, is a source of mystery. A recent book about the house mixes prostitutes, occult rituals,...
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18th century windmill
The Round Tower, a listed building in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England - The tower is believed to date back to 1790. The first record of its existence is in a 1791 lease, which says it was...
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house of the future
Famous for his iconic Egg chair, Danish architect Arne Jacobsen designed furniture, plumbing fixtures, lamps, speakers, door handles, flatware and other objects, as well as dozens of houses. His...
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casa redonda
Built in 1915 in the city of Rafaela, Argentina, and demolished in 1956 - The owner of the house, Pablo Travaini, was an Italian immigrant to Argentina who ran a brickworks. He apparently suffered from...
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the future is round
Why is the house of the future so often round? Is it because the houses of the present are so uniformly and predictably rectangular? The future house described in this 1956 ad, paid for by “America’s...
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the omphalos
Do you pay rent for this tower? Twelve quid, Buck Mulligan said. … Rather bleak in wintertime, I should say. Martello you call it? Billy Pitt had them built, Buck Mulligan said, when the French were on...
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