Round Houses

Here at Chimni we are happy to admit that very little about this page makes sense. That is not to say it is not important. The characteristic of being round is not necessarily one that has had an important impact on the history of housing development. It is also a difficult category to break down into sub-groups although many of them do fall into the slightly broad category of Homes Of The Future and quite a few also appear in the Moving Or Floating Homes category. For our Wiki we have adopted that 'round' and 'circular' has the same meaning, while spherical should speak for itself.

Round Houses

There is little rhyme or reason to this selection

Celtic Roundhouses made of wattle and daub recreated at Castell Henllys Iron Age Fort in Pembrokeshire
Geometrically patterned, painted round house of the Ndebele people, a Bantu people in Southern Africa.
The thatched ‪Veryan Roundhouses, Veryan, Cornwall - mark the entrances to Veryan. There are five in total, originally built by the Trist Family they guard the village from evil as there are no corners in which the devil can hide! ‬
The Grade II* listed ‘Round house’, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, formerly part of the Wedgwood Pottery works,
'A La Ronde' Exmouth, Devon built by Mary and Jane Parminter in 1798. It's central octagon shape was modelled on the basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy
The Grade II listed ‘Round House’, an 18th century estate cottage at Aston-on-Clun, Shropshire.
The Round House at Havering-atte-Bower, Essex. A late C18th oval stuccoed country villa, built for William Sheldon a successful tea importer.
A Napoleonic era Martello Tower called Tower 23 at Dymchurch, Romney Marshes in Kent, England.
Arnoldbrae Oast a traditional twin rounded Kentish Oast at Maidstone, Kent.
Dungeness Lighthouse-keepers house. Originally the base of the third Dungeness lighthouse, it was replaced by a new lighthouse in 1790 and the tower on top removed.
A converted lighthouse at West Usk in Newport, South Wales built in 1821 originally designed by the eminent engineer James Walker
Grade II listed Glyntaff Round House in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff. A pair of 3-stage round towers built in 1838-9 by Dr William Price in connection with a 'Druidic museum'.
Round House, by Luke Highton, 1924–5 in Southport was described as ‘one of the most unusual houses in North Lancashire.' By Nicholas Pevsner
The ‘House of The Future’ 1929 by Arne Jacobsen and Flemming Lassen.won a Danish Architect's Association competition and was built full scale at the subsequent exhibition in Copenhagen's Forum
The Melnikov House Moscow, Russia 1929 by architect Konstantin Melnikov is a classic residence that represents the forefront of the 1920's Russian avant-garde.
The Round House by Oliver Hill on the Frinton Park Estate 1934
St Anne's Court is a reinforced-concrete, private house in Chersey, Surreyby achitect Raymond McGrath
The Leo Henriksen House by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen, 1956.
Geodesica, Jacksonville, Florida designed by Gilbert Spinde in 1959 an engineer who sold blue prints for his house designs by mail.
the ‘Circular Sun House’, Phoenix, Arizona. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Norman and Aimee Lykes in 1959.
Serge Binotto-designed circular property 1960, Mirepoix, Ariege, south west France. A one-off 1960s home designed by the assistant to iconic designer Jean Prouve.
The Foster House, Wilton, Connecticut USA designed by Richard T Foster with help from Philip Johnson 1967
A 1960s conceptual design for a round house by Scottish brutalist Peter Womersley.
The brutalist 'Round House' at Herentals, Antwerp, Belgium by Jackie Cuylens 1970
The Sol Friedman House Westchester, NY built in 1948, to the design of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Jackie Gleason’s ‘Round House’ at Courtland Manor, New York.
The recently constructed, classically-themed Arragon Mooar Estate by Julian Bicknell Associates on the Isle Of Man
A round house by Bruce Goff at Urbana, Illinois. 1950s
The “Spaceship House” of La Selva Beach, California—built by landscape architect Mary Gordon between 1969 and 1972
‘The Round House’ in Shepherds Bush, London W14 by Michael Boyd Associates.
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Woolbrook Reservoir at Sidmouth in Devon was converted as a ‘self-build’ project by Robert and Ann Hardy from a storage tank they bought off South West Water in 2008
Circular Home at Preston Hollow, North Dallas by architect Lionel Morrison in 2007
'The Water Tower House' by Tom Dixon, London
The timber built Round House, Devon that featured on the UK’s Channel4 ‘Grand Designs’
3D Printed House by Russian construction company APIs Cor on Stufino, near Moscow, Russia.
Jan Kaplicky’s Future Home
‘Blue Horizons’ concept Homes to be built by the Seasteading Institute on French Polynesia

Other Round Homes

There is little rhyme or reason to this selection

The converted Alliance Gasometer Apartments in Dublin.
The now abandoned San-Zhr Pod or 'UFO' Houses in Sanzhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
The NLA Tower. A block of flats in Croydon by Seifert & Partners
The notorious ‘Ponte City Appartments’ Berea, Johannesburg
The Bublik building, Moscow was constructed in 1972 by Soviet architect Eugene Stamo and engineer Aleksandr Markelov as athletes housing for the 1980 Olympics.
Cité de l'Abreuvoir 1964. A ‘garden-city’ development of social housing at Bobigny, France by architect Emile Aillard.
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The Créteil Cabbages or “Choux de Créteil" at Créteil, France are social housing towers built during the 1970s by architect Gérard Grandval.
Lai Tak Tsuen is a public housing estate at Tai Hang, Hong Kong. Built in 1975, it is one of the first public housing developments in Hong Kong