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A New Spin: 125-Year-Old Windmill Turned into a Towering Guest House

From barns and sheds to windmills, rural farm structures have a habit of falling into disrepair when they cease to serve their old functions. In Suffolk, England, one such old structure has found ...

Circular Logic: “Endless Runways” Rounded to Save Energy, Time & Space

Designed to reduce real estate needs for runways in ever-more-crowded cities, this "endless runway" system encircles a central terminal building and lets multiple planes take off and land at the ...

Science City: Futuristic Research Complex to Vitalize Egyptian Desert

A new 125,000-square-foot science complex to be built outside Cairo will combine research, learning and museum facilities in a future-focused structure designed by competition-winning ...

Circular Reasoning: How Rounded Homes Resist Storms & Save Lives

Combining the physical benefits of circular plans with the practicality of straight lines and corners, octagonal houses are uniquely positioned to resist hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes ...

Tunnel of Books: Shelves Wrap Curved Bookstore Walls & Ceiling

Paired to fantastic effect, a series of arch-forming shelving units and a black-mirrored floor create a wraparound tunnel in a Chinese bookstore, punctuated by a fracture leading visitors through ...

Wheel House: Circular Hobo Home is a Rolling Circus Marvel

In this strange circus performance piece, two travelers turn architectural conventions on end, moving an offbeat nomadic home through a comedic narrative via carefully choreographic actions. A ...

Blobitecture: 11 Cool Ways Architecture Gets a Round

Blob Architecture - sometimes referred to as Blobitecture, Blobism or even Blobismus is a exceedingly organic type of architecture that exhibits profoundly soft, rounded and curved dimensions. ...

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