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romanian circle house
In Bucharest, Romania, a circle house from architects Razvan Barsan & Partners –
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casa rotonda
An interesting and somewhat mysterious round house, crowned by a distinctive cupola-style lookout, in the town of Cornuda, Italy –
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pleasantly round
A beautiful double-round house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is now for sale in Pleasantville, New York. Built in the late 1940s, the house’s circular design prefigures the Guggenheim Museum in NYC....
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halfway to infinity
Jack Lenor Larsen, a pioneering textile designer, designed and built a round house in East Hampton, NY, in the early 1960s – The house was inspired by his 1961 trip to South Africa, where he saw some...
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wright’s round house
The New York Times has some nice photos of the round house (actually, double-round house, with super-cool round carport) that famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1948. It’s now on the market...
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round in the extreme
“From the beginning, Carol and Roy knew they wanted to build a round house … ”
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366 square feet in 360 degrees
Christoph Kaiser and Shauna Thibault live in a refurbished grain silo: 366 square feet of circularity. An architect, Kaiser designed and built the interior himself, and nearly everything — from the...
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round masterpiece for sale
Before the spiraling Guggenheim Museum in NYC, there was this spiraling house in Phoenix – Iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house in 1952 for his son David, who lived in the...
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sauna with a view
The Chalet Sereno, in Megève, France, has a pretty cool hillside sauna –
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stranger in a strange house
Noted science fiction author Robert Heinlein designed and built this house – Together with his wife Virginia, Heinlein lived in the house for 20 years, from 1967 to 1987. A news article from 1985,...
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helicoid house
Yes, a circular house needs a spiral staircase – St Andrews Beach House — located on Australia’s Mornington Peninsula, in Victoria — is just off the beach, next door to a national park. It has an open...
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Hungarian-born British modernist architect Ernø Goldfinger wasn’t a fan of the circle.
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no front door
“The boundary between inner and outer space no longer exists,” explain the designers of this tiny, round, mobile, convertible house –
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sunflower house
A mid-century round house in Madison, Wisconsin, has just hit the market – Built in 1952-53 by architect James Dresser, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin, the house has a central...
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a concrete mushroom
Designed by architect George Bissell in 1963 as a demonstration house for a nationwide association of cement companies, this house was meant to prove that concrete homes were modern, inexpensive, and...
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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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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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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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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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