This & That, Ceci et Cela

HOUSE #1: The Rotating House is 24-metre diameter octagon with a 3-metre, with exterior walls of mostly glass and steel and a 360-degree verandah/porch built in Oz (Australia). The computer-controlled 360° rotation occurs around a central core of plumbing and electricals. What is ...

Talk about genteel heresy! Think the queen of England and 4 o'clock teatime had anything to do with it? The odd temples of a teapot-worshipping religious sect in Malaysia have been destroyed by authorities. The group's leader, Ayah Pin, is on the lam; his wives have been arrested, and his devotees are distraught. They had been on ...

Cool new building product: LiTraCon; the Light-transmitting concrete. A new concrete composite with embedded optical fibers that allow light to pass through it, resulting in translucent blocks or walls. Created and patented by twenty-seven year old Hungarian Áron Losonczi. Biopaver by Joseph Hagerman; a precast permeable paving ...

Another reason why one must live in a round house:

Domes save energy because there is less surface area per square foot to heat or cool compared to the square or rectangular home. It also allows wind to blow around it rather than into it. Variations: geodesic domes & monolithic domes. Geodesic domes, sold mostly in kit form, are formed by joining pyramid-shaped tetrahedrons together. These dome are usually framed in wood and the outside is covered by ...

Between Amazon & Google, there is next to no information on curvilinear architecture, curved/round buildings, or architecture in the round.  Noted source exceptions: Roger Dean and the monolithic dome sites.