The round building with a cupola atop its conical roof was built in 1888 when coal gas was a major source of light and heat. It was last used in 1953. Top Picks.

Ringed by eight stepped stone walls up to 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) high, the inner structure was split into smaller, interconnecting spaces and may have had a shallow conical roof.

A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the Greek tourist island.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the Greek ...

Wright turned in a design for a circular structure with a conical roof, which would have been built if not for an economic depression in 1894. Now, nearly 130 years later, this early Wright design ...

Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed the 50-metre-tall Sun Tower, which has a conical concrete form designed to follow the path of the sun, in Yantai, northeast China. Located in Yantai ...

Continuing our review of 2024, Dezeen's China editor Christina Yao rounds up this year's most impressive Chinese architecture, including a one-kilometre-long museum and a conical viewing tower.