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Casa Octogonal
Esta casa com 8 lados e cinco andares é uma edficio sólido feito em tijolos construido nos idos de 1850 pelo pioneiro John Richards. É o melhor exemplo em Wisconsin deste incomum projeto arquitectonico muito em voga um pouco antes da Guerra Cívil Americana. Foi uma vez considerada a maior casa unifamiliar de Wisconsin com 57 comodos. A atração mais interessante da casa é a sua escada em espiral.
A casa abriga um múseu que só abre no verão, da primeira vez que estivemos lá não foi possivel entrar e fotografar a escadaria, hoje finalmente conseguimos visitar a casa por dentro.
Watertown fica a duas horas de carro da cidade que eu moro.
The complex was designed by the Italian star architect Aldo Rossi and built after the fall of the wall from 1994 to 1998.
This octagon house in Kinsman was built in 1853. The exterior walls are made of chestnut beams between layers of concrete. The lawn was cared for but it was not clear to me if the house is currently occupied. Way back when it was the home of one of the more famous people to have lived in an octagon house.
While out with Greystones Camera Club in Glen of the Downs last Thursday I got this eerie shot of this Octagon.
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San Francisco Landmark #36
Feusier Octagon House
1067 Green Street Between Leavenworth and Jones
Built 1858
The Feusier Octagon House is one of only two surviving houses in San Francisco built on the octagon plan. The other is the Colonial Dames Octagon on Gough Street. Both houses retain their original exterior construction and reflect their eight-sided shape in the interior.
Although the year of construction is uncertain, the Feusier Octagon House is one of the oldest houses on Russian Hill. The most informed estimate indicates that it was built in 1857 or 1858, with one source alleging construction as early as 1852. The house appears in early views of the city showing Russian Hill, including views dated 1858, 1861, 1862 and 1863. It was near the summit, not closely surrounded by other building and was indeed an outstanding landmark of the city's skyline.
The original two-story house was modified (not to its detriment) late in the century when the Feusiers added a third story with Mansard roof, surmounted by an octagonal cupola. Like other buildings on Russian Hill, the Feusier House escaped the 1906 Earthquake but was menaced by the Fire; the outbuildings were dynamited but fortunately the main house was saved.
Octagon houses were a national fad in the mid-19th century as the result of a book by Orson Squire Fowler, A Home for All; or, the Gravel Hall and the Octagon Mode of Building. Fowler, a New York phrenologist who identified one's well-being with the shape and construction of his domicile, proposed a new and cheap way to construct houses for the new age. The octagon form was prescribed so that every room could receive sunlight at some time of the day.
A hundred or more octagons houses survive in the United States.
At one time there were at least five in San Francisco, as well as others in the Fruitvale section of Oakland and elsewhere in the Bay Area.
Of the San Francisco Octagons, all but one were on or near Russian Hill, the sole exception being Cyrus Palmer's home on Rincon Hill. It is likely that all of these were built by a single builder from the eastern United States.
The Feusier House and the Colonial Dames Octagon are apparently the only two remaining in the entire Bay Area.
The first known occupant of the house was George L. Kenny, whose grandson Robert W. Kenny was Attorney General of California from 1943 to 1947. George Kenny was a salesman or agent for H. H. Bancroft, the famous bookseller, publisher and historian.
In 1875 Louis Feusier first appears as the owner and occupant, and the house is commonly associated with the name of Feusier, in whose family it was to remain for some eighty years.
According to the family history, Louis Feusier arrived in California about 1852, spent the years 1857-1867 in Nevada, and then returned to San Francisco, later marrying Louise Guerne, daughter of the pioneer for whom Guerneville was named.
Feusier is said to have been a companion of such San Francisco notables as Leland Stanford and Mark Twain. Feusier's many business interests include wholesale produce, mining, salmon canning, winemaking, and importation of oriental goods. His wife Louise lived in the house until her death, as did their son Clarence who died in 1951. In 1954 the Feusier Octagon was sold by the family.
Source: Adapted from City Planning Commission Resolution 6633 dated October 1, 1970.
View across Octagon Lake to the Gothic Temple & a splendid pine tree, Stowe Gardens Parkland, Buckingham, UK. Date: 07/08/2024
Before the Celtic and Italic tribes invaded Northern Italy, there was a large indigenous population of shoe-making elves. I think they must still be there, working, judging from the vast number of shoes, coming out of Milan. The paper manufacturer, Favini, is harnessing the waste stream from those shoe workshops and has recently launched a line of paper, Remake, made with 25% leather waste. And it folds very nicely, as you might imagine. This is a 210mm square, weighing in at 120g per hectare.
Crease pattern: PDF.
The Gregg-Crites House in Circleville was built circa 1855. It was threatened with demolition to make way for a Walmart but in 2004 was saved by moving it a short distance to its present site.
On Rt 11 about half-way between Cortland and Homer. Built in 1905 as the winter quarters for Sig Sautelle's Circus, this octagon building is 55 feet wide and has seven (why not eight?) dormers. Now home to an antiques shop
A different arrangement of flaps on this one
Result is similar to the Chopin tato-box
The above config is more efficient, box is bigger.
Closely tied to our nation’s history since its construction began in 1799, The Octagon is a symbol of power and influence in Washington, DC. The Octagon house was built by enslaved workers for Virginia’s wealthiest plantation family, largely as a gesture by the Tayloes in support of the newly-established capital. The building was designed by the first architect of the United States Capitol, William Thornton, and served for six months as the White House after the 1814 Burning of Washington.
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One of the prominent features in the Norman conquest of England after 1066 was the replacement of Anglo-Saxon churches by new buildings of unseen splendour. In Ely (Cambridgeshire) a huge cathedral was erected in the 11th and 12th century above an older monastic building which preserved the shrine of St. Etheldreda, the pious daughter of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon king. In 1322, however, the crossing tower collapsed and was replaced by this unique 200-tons octagon lantern, one of the gems of gothic architecture (23 m wide and 52 m high, internally 43 m high).
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An eight sided brick pillbox seen on Firs Lane, Odiham. It looks very small inside and I was pushed for time so didn't try!
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Castel del Monte (English: Castle of the Mount, Bari dialect: Castídde d'u Monte) is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It stands on a promontory, where it was constructed during the 1240s by the Emperor Frederick II, who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily.
Because of its relatively small size, it was once considered to be no more than a "hunting lodge", but scholars now believe it originally had a curtain wall and did serve as a citadel. Frederick was responsible for the construction of many castles in Apulia, but Castel del Monte's geometric design was unique. The fortress is an octagonal prism with an octagonal tower at each corner. The towers were originally some 5 m higher than now, and they should perhaps include a third floor Both floors have eight rooms and an eight-sided courtyard occupies the castle's centre. Each of the main rooms have vaulted ceilings. Three of the corner towers contain staircases. The castle has two entrances, an unobtrusive service entrance and an ornate main entrance. Frederick's main entrance featured elements from classical design, and may have been influenced by Frederick's interest in Greco-Roman architecture.
The octagonal plan is unusual in castle design. Historians have debated the purpose of the building and it has been suggested that it was intended as a hunting lodge. Another theory is that the octagon is an intermediate and esoteric symbol between a square (representing the earth) and a circle (representing the sky). Frederick II may have been inspired to build to this shape by either the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, which he had seen during the Sixth Crusade, or by the Palace Chapel of Aachen Cathedral.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1072400
Date First Listed : 30 June 1989
This seaside pavilion was built in 1902 or 1904. It replaced a pagoda designed by Decimus Burton, around which he planned the layout of Fleetwood. The pavilion is constructed of roughcast brick with tile roofs. It has an octagonal dome with a copper roof.
From squares of kami.
Left one is from a regular octagonal twist, like in a bird-base, the others are semi-regular octagons ( Toledo star and a trisection of corner)
Again another box variation.
The lid is made with a octagonal star cross module.
And the base is made with the octagon cross module.
Folder: Dirk Eisner
box end idea: Brigitte Wehrle
8 units base, 8 units lid
duocolor paper
Looking up to the beautiful lighting inside the Creature Comforts store.
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As you might guess, a farm near a town named Elsie ( as in Elsie Borden) is probably a dairy farm. And on this farm there is a barn, with a side/side here and a side/side there and a side/side , side/side everywhere. Old MacDonald had a barn , e-i-e-i-ooohh. Sorry about that, and seriously, round, hexagonal, octagonal, 12-sided barns are rare finds these days, and this one was a true accidental find. Incidentally, it comes with the explanation of why so many barns were painted this shade of red: apparently, farmers would take a vat of buttermilk, toss in a bunch of rusted metal and stir it now and then, and-boom! in a few days they would paint the barn. Don't know if they just used buttermilk alone to paint houses white. Considering that casein is a white undercoating paint used by artists, and a milk product, it seems possible.....
although i can just imagine the bugs swarming in when it was painting time.