I have always had a soft spot for photographs of the great Art Deco American skyscrapers. So my eye was caught by this great photo of the Fisher Building in Detroit taken through the arches of the ground floor of the Cadillac Building opposite when I was flicking through an old children's encyclopedia the other day. But when I turned the page I was confronted with two examples of circular building that seemed quite science fiction... especially the first one which is described as a street of perfectly circular houses having been built in Dresden. Google didn't help me very much and I'd love to know whether they still exist but I suppose it is unlikely they survived WW2. In particular, it would be nice to find a better photo of these space-age looking buildings. The bottom photo is of a development which is, I suppose, much more likely to have survived in some form, described as "an experiment in building healthful homes on the flat principkle for the artisan classes" and says it is known locally as "The Round House".
