Some buildings aren’t just made to house things; they’re built to actually look like things. Known as novelty, mimetic, or ...

Chuxi tulou complex in Chuxi village, Yongding district of Longyan city in East China's Fujian province, was given World Heritage Status by UNESCO in 2008. [By Hu Meidong/China Daily] In valleys ...

The curtain has gone up on a first-of-a-kind artisan pizza restaurant credited with revitalizing the former historic San ...

A Unique Circular Structure With Maze-Like Walls Unlike the well-known Minoan palaces such as Knossos, which are mostly rectangular with organized wings and corridors, this newly found building is ...

In the report on ancient building shape, there was no mention of the critical relationship between the roofs and walls. The roof of a rectangular structure provides strength to ensure the walls ...

It was completed in 1874 for $8,400. It was ordered as a “round” house, but the building evolved into the eight-side building of today, according to a 1953 Journal Herald article.

Abstract: Building upon our recent work (IEEE ElectronDevice Lett., vol. 26, pp. 909–912, Dec., 2005), we present simple and continuous closed-form models for several rectangular and circular ...

Around the world, the earliest buildings are typically round while later ones are rectangular – but 12,000-year-old buildings with corners don’t fit the pattern By Colin Barras 25 February 2025 ...

Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are ...

Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are ...

Some houses are rectangular, with decorative pillars, verandas and flat roofs. South Africa’s history of labour migration saw generations of people forced to leave these family homes to find work.