While excavating at the site of Upward Sun River, near the Tanama River in central Alaska, archaeologist Ben Potter of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and his colleagues discovered the outlines of the foundation of a circular house, including a scattering of stone tools and animal bones on the floor and traces of posts that may have held up the walls and roof.
She had previously tried to interest her husband in other houses, including a Formby lighthouse, a windmill in St. Helens and a circular house in Southport, which John disliked and rejected.
The central feature of every village was a circular ceremonial house with low walls and a towering conical thatched roof.
"Every day is a power issue for us," said Lynn Meadows, 49, a physician's assistant, who lives with her husband, Bob Dress, a carpenter, in a circular handbuilt house with a garden on the roof.
Nor did the circular House hearing room resemble anyone's idea of a circus tent; it was packed but quiet, scattered with a few innocuous protesters.
Incredible, not only to see the characteristic, thatched, witches'-hat shaped roofs on the Dogon pepperpot-like granaries but also each village's sole circular house, set aside for menstruating women.
Built over several years beginning in 1973, the circular house coils around itself, with rooms and railing-less balconies that Ms. Findlay refers to as "go-go platforms" constituting 12 levels.
You can choose from a 1,700-square-foot 1,700-square-foot 1,700-square-footve-bedroom Tudor mansion with a colonial stoircase housed inside a turret.
Hirst fixed a piece of paper to a circular board housed inside the cube to contain spatter, then depressed a foot pedal to spin the board while adding pigments.
The Tourist Information Centre in Justice Lane is contained within a circular dye-house, known to have been in existence by 1813, one of two surviving in the town (the other is in Willow Vale).
Roundhouses: Circular houses, with a frame of wooden posts covered by wattle-and-daub or cordwood panels finished with cob.
