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Design for an octagonal building with four long sides and four short sides: ground floor plan for a theoretical royal commission
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NOTES: It is really an exercise in geometrical planning rather than practical proposition.
Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba: exhibition 2011
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NOTES: The first building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1967, and conceived as an educational institute. It was remodelled as a museum in 2002, for which Niemeyer designed the annex, reminiscent of an eye.
Preliminary design for an anatomical theatre, College of Physicians, Amen Corner, London: plan, part elevation and section, with scale
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NOTES: This drawing formed part of Lord Burlington's sequence of Palladio drawings. The College of Physicians stood at Amen Corner in Westminster until the Great Fire of London in 1666 and became known as the Royal College of Physicians in 1674.
Tempietto, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome
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SOURCE: Il terzo libro di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese (Venice, 1544), p. XLVIII