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rotunda

In Classical and Neoclassical architecture, a building or room that is circular in plan and covered with a dome. The Pantheon is a Classical Roman rotunda. The Villa Rotonda at Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, is an Italian Renaissance example. The central hall of the U.S. Capitol is an example of the rotunda in its familiar role as part of a monumental public building.


rotunda
a building or room having a circular plan, esp one that has a dome

rotunda
1. A circular building, especially one with a dome.
2. A circular hall in a large building, esp. one covered by a cupola.

Rotunda 

a centric construction circular in plan and usually domed. Often there are columns along the perimeter of a rotunda. Greek tholoi, some Roman temples (such as the Pantheon) and mausoleums, baptisteries, and some churches (mainly in the Romanesque, Renaissance, and classicistic styles) are in the form of rotundas. Since the 18th century park pavilions have been constructed as rotundas.



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Maria Rotundo, a professor at the Rotman School of Management said: "Some of these early examples of rule-breaking behaviour, more the modest type, don't necessarily produce negative outcomes later in life - that was fairly intriguing.
For years, Rotundo struggled to obtain a large groundwater withdrawal permit over the opposition of opponents in the community and elsewhere.
 
 
 
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