In Barcelona, Nouvel's Torre Agbar, a round skyscraper that narrows toward a rounded top, has an experimental façade of a different sort.
The hardest bit is making the rounded top end.
The patrol cap looks like a baseball cap, but with a flat, not rounded, top.
Carefully slice off the rounded top of the panettone without breaking it and set aside.
But the Corcoran Group is already marketing the triplex apartment with the rounded top (and a terrace with a metal-mesh canopy) for $6.6 million.
It starts small at the bottom, bulges to its greatest width at the 26th floor, then tapers back to a soft, rounded top.
But there, too, the ideas were abstracted, giving a tailored jacket a blouson back and cropping a rounded top high in the torso, creating a look that is becoming a trend.
The ingenious rabbit fur felt hat with a slightly higher crown and rounded top comes with a guide for turning it from a Bogey-like fedora to a jazz man's porkpie.
A low wooden table figures prominently as a burden to carry heroically, an object to masturbate against and a curved shape to trace and augment with the rounded top of a head or curving arm poking up from behind it.
The torso looms above, but hooks into, the main support piece, another figure whose understated mass is achieved by elegant carving, with an eyelike hole in its rounded top.
There's more than one small bejeweled box whose rounded top will make you think of the Duomo in Florence or the Taj Mahal, which was built by Shah Jahan, Akbar's grandson.
