ROTUNDA (ARCHITECTURE)

A 'rotunda' is any building with a circular ground plan, often covered by a dome. It can also refer to a round room within a building (a famous example being within the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.). The Pantheon in Rome is a famous rotunda. A Band Rotunda is a circular bandstand, usually with a dome. Several cities have buildings referred to as "the Rotunda," among them:

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Religious buildings

Buildings for entertainment

Houses

Buildings for learning

Government buildings

Office buildings

See also

Religious buildings

★ The Pantheon, Rome, Italy, originally built as a temple to the seven deities of the seven planets in the state religion of Ancient Rome.

★ The Church of the 'Rotonda' in Thessaloniki, built as the "Tomb of Galerius" in 306 AD.

★ The St George Rotunda in Sofia, Bulgaria, a 4th-century Early Christian church

★ St. George Cathedral Church at Zvartnots, Armenia

★ St. Martin's 'Rotunda' in Vyšehrad Castle, Prague, Czech Republic

★ The Rotunda of St Marija Assunta in Mosta, Malta

Buildings for entertainment

★ The large 'Rotunda' at Ranelagh Gardens in London, built in the 1740s and demolished in 1805. It was painted by Canaletto.

★ The Pantheon, London, opened 1772, demolished in 1937.

★ The internal 'Rotunda' in the Michael Maddox Petrovsky Theatre, Moscow (burnt down in 1805).

★ The Gate Theatre in Dublin, Ireland (formerly the Rotunda Hospital, built in 1757).

★ The Roundhouse in London, originally built in 1847 as a turntable engine shed, it was used as a gin store till being converted into a theatre in the 1960s.

★ The Royal Albert Hall in London, England.

Houses

★ Ickworth House in Suffolk, England.

Buildings for learning

★ The 'Rotunda' at the University of Virginia built in 1826.

★ The British Museum Reading Room, London built in 1857. Rotunda,

Government buildings

★ Beehive (building), a New Zealand parliament building.

★ The United States Capitol.

★ The Rotundas, a subterranean structure in Marsham Street in London

Office buildings

★ The 'Rotunda' in Birmingham, England, built as "The Rotunda" in 1964.

See also

★ Rotunda (disambiguation)

★ Round church