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Zuev Workers' Club, Moscow, Russian, 1928 designed by Ilya Golosov

The building was designed to house various facilities for Moscow workers, and utilises an innovative glazing treatment at its corner which has proved very photogenic.

Golosov was an enthusiast for expressive, dynamic form rather than the logics of Constructivist design methods. The building facade consists of cylindrical glazed staircases interecting with stacked rectangular floor planes to create a dramatic composition. A sequence of club rooms and open foyers lead to an 850-seat auditorium. -- Wikipedia

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Stockholm Public Library, Stockholm, Sweden, 1928 designed by Gunnar Asplund

The classic style of the architecture is revealed in the neoclassical composition of the parti. Interior reading rooms form a square with an open courtyard in the center of the library, which is almost entirely filled by a round lending hall. Beginning as a dome, the lending hall eventually became a tall cylinder for structural, economical and formal reasons. The only points of accessibility to the central area of the library are found at the four tangent points.  -- ArchDaily

Caruso St John Appointed to Renovate Asplund’s Stockholm Public Library -- ArchDaily

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Cyclorama Center, Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania, USA 1962 designed by Richard Neutra

The battle over Pennsylvania’s mid-century Cyclorama Center is nearing an end. Located in the heart of the Gettysburg National Military Park, the concrete and glass cylindrical drum was designed by modernist architect Richard Neutra and completed in 1962 under the ambitious Mission 66 initiative aimed to improve visitor services at national parks.

Controversy surrounding the building’s fate started in 1999, when the National Park Service first announced plans to demolish it. This sparked a raging battle between 20th century architecture supporters and Civil War purists, ultimately leading to the federal court. -- ArchDaily

Farewell to Richard Neutra’s Cyclorama Center in Gettysburg -- ArchDaily

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, 1986 designed by Bangert, Jansen, Scholz & Schultes

Historically, "Schirn" in German means an open-air stall for the sale of goods, and such stalls were located here until the 19th century. The area was destroyed in 1944 during the Second World War and was not redeveloped until the building of the kunsthalle. The Schirn Kunsthalle has 2,000 square meters of exhibition space . -- Wikipedia

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Mississauga Civic Centre, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, 1987 designed by Jones and Kirkland

The building, for instance, includes a prominent clock tower. It was chosen as the winner of a design competition that included 246 submissions.  Mississauga City Council chambers located in the cylindrical struture ... -- Wikipedia

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John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1989 designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects

The exhibition and convention areas are structured around the monumental entry drum and moving escalators, a linear atrium, a small rotunda and long double height glazed loggia with views of the city. -- architect's web site

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Turtle Creek House, Dallas, Texas , USA, 1993 designed by Antoine Predock

This House, 'theater of the trees,' was a response to the client's passion for bird-watching. A central 'sky ramp' projects the fissure of the entry into the surrounding canopy of trees.  This trajectory aims toward the sky.  It touches the ground lightly,  allowing the undergrowth to flow beneath it.  Its predominantly tensile steel composition resonates with the wind like an instrument. -- architect's web site

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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 1994 designed by Michael Graves & Associates

A cylindrical pavilion containing the library anchors one end of the building.  -- architect's web site

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Faaborg Heat and Power Plant, Fåborg, Denmark, 1994 designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter

The plant has a strict formal symmetry, built up around two identical gas engine systems and the dominating accumulator tank untraditionally placed in the middle of the composition.

In between the accumulator tank and the four surrounding building volumes, a light-filled and airy central space collects all of the departments and functions under one roof, giving optimal internal contact and access. -- architect's web site

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Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain, 1995 designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects

Entry to the gallery space is through a cylindrical , top-lit gallery/foyer leading to a glazed, triple-height ramp-hall that faces the new Placa dels Angels to the south. -- architect's web site

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Denver Central Library, Denver, Colorado, USA, 1995 designed by Michael Graves & Associates

The south-facing rotunda, a signature feature of the expansion, contains special functions such as the reference room, periodicals center and Western History Reading Room. -- architect's web site

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Museum of Television & Radio, Beverly Hills, California, USA, 1996 designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects

The North Beverly Drive entrance is set back from the property line in order to create a threshold at the entrance, a top-lit cylindrical lobby that is the symbolic center of the museum. -- architect's web site

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United States Post Office, Celebration, Florida, USA, 1996 designed by Michael Graves & Associates

Its simple massing is composed of two parts: a rotunda that serves as the public entrance, and a rectangular block with an open-air loggia where the mailboxes are located.  -- architect's web site

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The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1997 designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects

They enter the museum through a three-story cylindrical lobby that opens directly onto the museum court and the various galleries beyond. -- architect's web site

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Telegraph Hill House, San Francisco, California, USA, 1997 designed by Jim Jennings Architecture

All elements of vertical circulation are contained within the building's anchor: a white concrete cylinder that serves as a transitional space.  -- architect's web site

The cylinder's central skylight doubles as an observation deck with a steel-braced glass floor. -- MetroActive

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Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa, USA, 1997 designed by SOM

Located on a highly visible site at the southern entrance to downtown Sioux City, the Art Center was designed from its inception to both house a historic art collection and to fulfill the Center’s mission “to promote and cultivate the fine arts and foster art in all branches.”  -- architect's web site

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Bay of Somme motorway service station, on the A16, France, 1999 designed by HYL

On the plain, the project affords vast horizons with an unlimited view of the fields across the plateau. In the hollows, it evokes the landscapes of the nearby Bay, with low-lying fields, canals and marshlands. This hydraulic landscaping confers a contemporary interpretation, filters the rainwater from the service area. -- architect's web site

From the service building you can enter a cylindrical tower, 19m in diameter, which rises 10m above the ground. A staircase winds its way around the outside to the top. On the ground floor, there is an exhibition about the region with a slide show of the Bay of Somme. The surrounding landscape can be seen from the top of the tower, a view that extends all the way to the coast. Here you also have a view of the 10ha park. It is interesting to note that from this viewpoint you cannot see the service area itself because of the roof of the main building.   -- European Landscape Architecture, Taylor & Francis e-Library,2007, p. 69-80

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United States Courthouse, Pheonix, Arizona, USA, 2000 designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects

The 350-foot by 150-foot, glazed atrium is treated as an internal civic space, that houses the cylindrical glazed form of the special proceedings court -- architect's web site

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Friesen House, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2000 designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects

The new second level, which includes a master suite, studio, and library, integrates a large cylindrical volume to develop a hierarchy in the plan and massing. -- architect's web site

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University of California Merced - Central Plant Complex, Merced, California, USA, 2005 designed by SOM

Awarded LEED® Gold, the UC Merced Central Plant is the heart of the University's larger sustainability strategy. In addition to providing power and water for the University’s first-phase buildings, it serves as a "living laboratory" for environmental science students.  -- architect's web site

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Rice University BioScience Research Collaborative, Houston, Texas, USA, 2009 designed by SOM

At the heart of the BRC is a central “collaborative hub.” This cylindrical core, expressed in the building’s form, serves as the center of intellectual and social exchange in the building.  -- architect's web site

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UWA Business School, Perth, Australia, 2009 designed by Woods Bagot

The form of the building is also designed to allow maximum natural light penetration is leveraged for and by an intelligent daylight compensation lighting system. -- ArchDaily

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FHE Headquarters, Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil, 2009 designed by MGS – Macedo, Gomes & Sobreira + Associados

The implementation in few pure volumes establishes a relationship of complementarity with the surrounding landscape.... -- ArchDaily

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Toll Plaza, Gujarat, India, 2010 designed by archohm

The two prominent building blocks, namely the control block and the office block reflect the ‘wing’ concept, as they both comprise of wings, jutting out of central glass towers. -- ArchDaily

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c – 28 c, Noida, India, 2012 designed by Archohm Studio

Placed near the entrance, a robust, circular ‘rotunda’ of brickaccommodates all services. Dominating the central hollow core, hangs a yellow felt manuscript, with laser cut, inspiring excerpts from the ‘Fountain Head’. The apt placement of the rotunda ensures efficient division of traffic, as visitors reach directly to the meeting rooms.

The roof top of this rotunda, transfers into a perfectly circular amphitheater that can accommodate upto a hundred people. Lined with white china mosaic, it helps to reflect unwanted heat and provides an excellent space to conduct formal/informal office gatherings. -- ArchDaily

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New Brooks Library at Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 2012 designed by John Portman & Associates

The new Brooks Library at Norfolk State University is conceived as a student-focused facility that will become the new heart of the campus. The building is positioned to create two new quadrangles to the East and West. A new clock tower will serve as the campus focal point. The 132,000 sf (12,263 sm) building includes a 3-story round rotunda lobby, the circulation desk, 24/7 Internet café, staff offices, as well as other functional spaces. -- ARCHITECT Magazine

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Brasiliana Library, Cidade Universitária, USP, São Paulo, Brazil, 2013 designed by Rodrigo Mindlin Loeb + Eduardo de Almeida

The design took into consideration environmental and sustainable directions. All spaces are connected by a large independent roof structure with a laminated glass central canopy, allowing natural light, saving energy, with an additional system of UV filters and a perforated plate ceiling, protecting from direct solar radiation. -- ArchDaily