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round vacation
What better place for a summer vacation than a cool round house overlooking the beach? The Water Tower, just off the Pacific Coast Highway in Sunset Beach, California, supplied water to the surrounding...
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the diary of virginia woolf
We have bought the Round House, & are now secure of a lodging on earth so long as we need sleep or sit anywhere - In 1919, Virginia Woolf purchased the Round House in Pipe Passage, Lewes, for £300....
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chelsea house
A stunning half circle of an apartment building in central London, designed by Scottish modernist architect Thomas S. Tait in 1934 - An “exceptionally bright apartment” in the building is currently on...
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casualties of the war in syria
The traditional beehive houses of northern Syria are among the country’s architectural treasures, now at risk of destruction in indiscriminate bombings - Found in villages near Aleppo, the conical...
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villa vals
Even by round house standards, this Swiss vacation home is extremely unusual - The Villa Vals, built in Vals, Switzerland, in 2009, was designed by Bjarne Mastenbroek and Christian Müller, of...
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19th century fortress (and 21st century modernist showpiece) for rent
A defensive fortress from the Napoleonic era was converted in 2009 to a private residence - Made up of some 750,000 bricks, with immensely thick walls, Martello Tower Y was originally built in 1808 as...
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r and r in the round
Still looking for a summer holiday escape? There are round houses for rent in vacation spots around the world. Were it not for pressing work deadlines and a depleted bank account, I might run away to...
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mой mельников
If you happen to be in Moscow, drop everything and visit the Vkhutemas gallery, on Rozhdestvenka Street, where you can join the fight to protect the iconic Melnikov House - The innovative cylindrical...
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a nonconforming form
Round houses interrupt the rectangular grid - While they’re not, strictly speaking, unique — a badly overused word in real estate — they’re still an unconventional choice in our rectilinear world.
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wish you were here
The curving rooms of the Portland Hotel, in Long Beach, Washington, hosted thousands of guests during the hotel’s 30 years of existence - Built in the 1880s, the building burned down on December 6, 1914.
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casa pi
Casa Pi, the University of Zaragoza’s entry for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 - The project was a finalist in the competition, selected as one of the 20 best entries among the 50 that were initially...
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red spats and a round house
The late Bruce Chatwin gave a characteristically entertaining report of his 1973 visit with Konstantin Melnikov, at Melnikov’s cylindrical house in Moscow. The account is worth reading in full - In...
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if you lived in a yurt in a remote part of china
This is the stuff you might own - For nearly a decade, photographer Huang Qingjun has been taking pictures of families in rural China, together with their houses and all of their belongings. This...
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true modernism
“Modernism is not in the dress of the Europeans . . . or in the square houses with flat straight wall-surfaces, pierced with parallel lines of windows, where these people are caged in their lifetime ....
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revolutionary round houses
Cuba is among a handful of countries, according to WordPress site stats, from which no visitor has ever found his or her way to this blog. I’ll attribute the lack of Cuban traffic to few computers and...
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california’s revolutionary round house
“A radical new style in houses—the round house—makes its debut in California” - The reporter narrating a 1954 British Pathé newsreel spoke in breathless tones of a “revolutionary” round house in...
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early 18th century round house
Samuel Waring, an Irish gentleman and amateur architect, drew a set of circular house plans in 1715 -
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360 ° views of a 360 ° house
A round house on a private island in Mamaroneck, NY, is now on sale for $2.595 million (down from its original asking price of $3.1 million) - This swirling video shows the circular dwelling from the...
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