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Melnikov House, Moscow, Russia, 1929 designed by Konstantin Melnikov

It features two interlocking cylindrical volumes standing three stories high with enough space to house his family, and his painting and architectural studio spaces.  -- ArchDaily

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Arnos Grove tube station, London, UK, 1932 designed by Charles Holden

A circular drum-like ticket hall of brick and glass panels rises from a low single-storey structure and is capped by a flat concrete roof. The design was inspired by the Stockholm City Library and Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund. -- Wikipedia

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MIT Chapel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1955 designed by Eero Saarinen

From the outside the chapel is a simple, windowless brick cylinder set inside a very shallow concrete moat. It is 50 feet (15 m) in diameter and 30 feet (9.1 m) high, and topped by an aluminum spire. The brick is supported by a series of low arches. Saarinen chose bricks that were rough and imperfect to create a textured effect. -- Wikipedia

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The round house in Stabio, Ticino, Switzerland, 1982 designed by Mario Botta

A volume organised on three levels, a sort of tower, or rather, an object designed and cut out itself. The intention was to avoid any comparison and/or contrast with the surrounding buildings, but to search instead for a spatial relationship with the distant landscape and horizon. By using a cylindrical volume I wanted to avoid elevations that would necessarily have to be compared to the facades of the existing houses around it. -- architect's web site

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Climatic Research Unit(The Hubert Lamb Building), University of East Anglia, Switzerland, 1985 designed by Rick Mather Architects

A late addition to the brief for the new schools of Education and Information Studies, housed in a cylindrical 'gatehouse' in front.  This project was one of the earliest in the country to employ super-insulation techniques as an energy saving measure. -- architect's web site

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Paper Arbor, Nagoya, Japan, 1989 designed by Shigeru Ban

This was the first in a series of paper tube constructions. Manufactured as form work for circular concrete columns, the tubes are used structurally here. Forty-eight of these tubes (325mm in diameter, 15mm thick and 4m high) are treated with paraffin water-proofing and fitted onto a precast concrete base in a circle. -- architect's web site

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Space For Contemplation, UNESCO Building, Paris, 1996 designed by Tadao Ando Architects

Tadao Ando's cylindrical, one-story "Space for Contemplation" in the UNESCO compound, is paved with granite slabs from Hiroshima that were irradiated during the explosion of the H-bomb in August, 1945.  -- Architecture Blogcu

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Telematic Centre, Duisburg, Germany, 1996 designed by Foster + Partners

The masterplan creates a landscaped public park and three new buildings: the Business Promotion Centre, Telematic Centre and the Microelectronic Centre the largest building on the site. The project demonstrates how areas for living and working can coexist harmoniously.-- architect's web site

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Canada Water station, London, UK, 1999

Above ground, its most salient feature is a striking glass "drum" 25 m (82 ft) across, which covers a deep opening descending almost to the Jubilee Line platforms, 22 m (72 ft) below the surface. This feature was designed to allow natural light to reach deep into the station, a design principle common to many of the stations on the Jubilee Line Extension. -- Wikipedia

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International Center for Possibility Thinking, Garden Grove, California, USA, 2003 designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects

The Center, a partially cylindrical, four-story building, provides a gathering place for the congregation in an atmosphere of ease and sociability. -- architect's web site

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Natural Science Center, Bjerringbro, Denmark, 2009 designed by NORD Arkitekter

In the Natural Science Center all spaces are open and have views spanning several floors. The building itself is shaped as a cylinder with terraces, openings and cuts to explore and get lost in.  -- ArchDaily

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Standard House, Pszczyna, Poland designed by KWK Promes

Round shape of the house makes it easily suitable to any given shape of the site, freedom in the choice of a roof type makes it universal in terms of landscape conditionings, while flexibility of interior plan adopts it to needs of an individual family. Owing to the optimal building’s shape (circle), very good thermal insulation, elimination of thermal bridges and renewable energy installations the house can be called a passive one. -- ArchDaily

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House in Chiharada, Chiharada Kōryūjichō, Okazaki-shi, Aichi-ken, Japan designed by Studio Velocity

....a round shaped volume was chosen against the corner of the square shaped volume of the main house. It was arranged so as to create a valley-like space in between the two buildings spreading open towards the outside. The round shape is set on an irregular shaped site, creating various shaped gardens around it that can be shared with the main house. Each room on the first floor in the round shaped building has a door that opens to the gardens. -- ArchDaily

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Apple Store, Shanghai, China, 2010 designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

the Apple Store sits in a large urban plaza below a new circular sunken court. Its entrance is marked by a large glass cylinder, thirty-two feet high.  -- architect's web site

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Las Arenas, Barcelona, Spain, 2011 designed by Richard Rogers + Alonso y Balaguer

In spite of the fact that the former bullring, in disuse since 1989 and with a neo-mudéjar style, didn’t actually have high architectural value, it was clear that, being poised in such an impressive location for more than a century, this site was really in the minds of every citizen, and its symbolic value lead to a suitable preservation. That’s why the architectural answer, already from the first outlines, was orientated towards its maintenance as a second skin of the new building. Nevertheless, such preservation met great technical complexity: first, an evident physical deterioration; second, a strange height, four meters above the nearby streets. The technical effort was worth it, in the end to present a strong, atypical cylindrical form. -- ArchDaily

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Gamesa, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain, 2011 designed by Vaillo-Irigaray y Asociados

Surrounded by road links, the project responds as a great infraestructural milestone, as a large transparent tank. An autonomous geometry floating on a green hillside. -- ArchDaily

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BE OPEN Sound Portal, London, UK, 2012 designed by Arup

Located in Trafalgar Square in London, the BE OPEN Sound Portal focuses on an experience that would be all about the sound. The plan is effectively two concentric circles: the inner circle for the sound and the outer circle forms the entrances. Both pieces mask the background noise. They are shells to shield the noise. -- ArchDaily

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Oil silo 468, Kruunuvuorenranta, Helsinki, Finland, 2012 designed by Tapio Rosenius (Lighting Design Collective)

The light artwork ‘Oil silo 468’ glitters white in the evening and, when the night sets, its red blaze can be seen from the city centre over the sea. The work, which was created in a large 1960s oil silo, is a reference  to Kruunuvuorenranta’s almost 90 years as an oil port and the construction of a new area surrounded by the sea and green archipelago nature.

A total of 2012 round openings were cut in the shell of the silo. The mirrors that were placed in the openings sparkle in sunlight. As the night darkens, the led lights inside the shell change, making the old oil silo into a large, ever-changing light artwork. The silo can be used for many purposes, such as small theatre, dance and circus performances, exhibitions, flea markets, fairs and village festivals. -- official web site

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Han Show Theatre Wuhan, Hubei, China, 2014 designed by Stufish Entertainment Architects

The Han Show Theatre’s design is based on the traditional Chinese paper lantern – hence its nickname ‘The Red Lantern’. The intent was to recreate an instantly recognisable and iconic Chinese symbol with the aesthetic cladding that covers the theatre’s ambitious auditorium and fly tower.

Stufish’s concept drawings have now come to life as the traditional bamboo superstructure of a paper lantern is reinterpreted with eight intersecting tubular steel rings, suspended in orbit around the theatre fly tower. The paper surface is suggested through a series of minimal surface cable nets, hung and tensioned within the lattice of trapezoidal voids generated by the intersecting rings. -- ArchDaily