It is a circular building with eight semi-oval towers, which was occupied from the Iron Age to the Achaemenid period. For the Takhchar Abad site, the dating of the ceramic remains found demonstrates ...

Many of mankind's earliest structures were not square or rectangular as we build today, but were round or oval shaped. In ... The ancient Romans were constructing massive round buildings 2,000 ...

Letter: For advantages of round buildings, look to the roof. Published 26 March 2025. From Catherine Gillespie, Winmalee, New South Wales, Australia ...

Now, newly appreciated for form and function, round buildings are rising ... Architect Joseph L. Eldredge thinks that it cost 7% less than a rectangular one of the same area, ...

Today, the vast majority of buildings follow a rectangular geometry. As explained by a 2006 essay , there are several ...

To make a house more energy-efficient, architect Eli Attia is thinking outside the rectangular box. People tack on all manner of technology to their homes to be green: solar panels, 100-foot-deep ...

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 ...

Completed in 2010 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe concept: The AlDar Headquarters designed by MZ Architects has a distinctive and innovative design: a semispherical building comprising two ...

Rotunda Living, based in the Bosley, Cheshire, U.K., builds exclusively on a circular footprint. Why round? "Our human connection with round buildings is hard-wired into our subconscious; round is ...

A circular library was the Phoenix campus’s centerpiece when the school opened in the fall of 1959, surrounded with a hoop-shaped, two-story classroom building. A few rectangular buildings ...