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7 hours to build and 6 months to restore
The dome home of Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewitt Fuller in Carbondale, Illinois, is now being restored. The only dome in which the Fullers actually lived, it took less than a day to build: seven...
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revisiting the bronze age in britain
Once upon a time — about 2,500 years ago — people in what is now Britain switched from building rectangular houses to building round houses: in many instances, small circular structures with wooden...
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why in the world a round house?
If you’ve always wanted to live in a round house, but have never found the right one, in the right place, for the right price, you could always try building one yourself. That’s what Tomasi and Irene...
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round house cafe
This cafe was built in the early 20th century in a resort area in the San Bernardino Mountains, in California, and existed until at least the 1940s. It looks like it may have since been integrated...
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happy birthday frank lloyd wright & bruce goff!
Two of the most creative architects ever to embrace the round form, Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff, were both born on June 8—Wright in 1867, and Goff in 1904. For Wright, the circular form...
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on the market
An early 19th century Martello tower in Suffolk, England, is now on the market. Built as a rampart against a feared French invasion — one of 11 Martello towers that still line the Suffolk coast — it...
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build different
In a village full of rectangular houses near the town of Grimari, Central African Republic, one house stands out -
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into the futuro
If you can get to London in the next 10 days, you will have the rare chance to visit a restored Futuro House. A prefabricated, spaceship-like structure, the Futuro House was designed by Finnish...
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the future is not yet here
The vacation house of the future, as conceived in 1957 by automobile designer James R. Powers – It has stylistic affinities with the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport, built during...
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a round house no one wants to visit
The F-House cell block at Stateville Correctional Center, in Illinois, is the last remaining panopticon-style prison building in the United States – The round plan of a panopticon, as designed by...
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cool britannia
Add this fantastic house to your list of reasons to visit London – British designer Tom Dixon bought a disused water tower in north London in 2005, collaborating with sustainable architectural firm...
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modernist mogadishu
Odd, bunker-like round houses in Mogadishu, built in the 1930s – I wonder if they still exist. Mogadishu evidently witnessed a period of modernist expansion in the 1930s, including the construction of...
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windmill house
A former windmill, now a private home, is for sale in Leeds, England. Here is how it looked in the early 1900s – The windmill was built in the mid to late 18th century. A 1789 lease between the Earl of...
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det runda huset
One of my favorite round houses — just off the beach in Bastad, Sweden — is once again for sale. It’s beautiful both inside and out –
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excavating round house history
First constructed in the 3rd millenium BC in what is now southwest Scotland, prehistoric round houses continued to be built up through the UK’s Roman period, particularly in the north and west of the...
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