It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread! This week-Round shapes.

Well the materials Mini-Series was great, loads of fantastic stuffs. But it seems interest in this thread has been waning recently, maybe people are bored. Ho hum. But I’ll keep it gojng if people still want it.

This week’s about round shapes in architecture. Domed roofs, circular buildings, round doorways and windows etc. Basically any building where round shapes create a focal point or lend a particular style.

Thussly:

St Paul’s Dome:

Round tent thingy near me:

British Museum Reading Room:

Let’s see yer round things!

YAY!!!! Here’s Manchester Central Library

Inside

and out

Oooooooooooooh look a pink one!!! lovely x

Eltham Palace

Arnos Grove Tube Station

Somewhere in Cheltenham

Warham Camp, Norfolk

Caaaaaaaaaarmden raaaaaaanhaaaarse innit 😀

Apple’s proposed new HQ.

Leeds Corn Exchange.

Wembley Stadium:

Madrid civil court (doesn’t look built yet, though:

Munich TV Tower:

Leeds Corn Exchange:

Round Church, Cambridge:

Globe Theatre, London:

Reichstag dome:

The only stone circle in the world with a pub in the middle!

A few from Edinburgh:

Usher Hall

EICC aka Jabba’s Palace

McEwan Hall

Old College

Potterrow

Eden project. I always think of Silent Running when I see it

@piedi – subtle; I like it.

Yer Muslamicals are good at domes and stuff:

A modern day cathedral.

I love oval rooms (interiors), some Georgian houses near me have them.

Badshai Mosque, Lahore.

I went there once during safer times.

Interior Haka Round House, Fujian

De la Warr Pavilion

CDG T1

Assembly instructions