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As Graff described in the tour, its most defining feature is its curved, semicircular living room, which Wright called a solar hemicycle since the shape was designed to follow the path of the sun.
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Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025
Back in the other world of central Dijon, the mayor’s office is housed in the Palace of the Dukes, approached through the magnificent hemicycle of the Place de la Libération, or Liberation Square.
—Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2022
The most influential hemicycle is the French National Assembly, which began sitting in the Palais Bourbon in 1798.
—The Economist, 27 July 2019
American and most European politicians sit in a fan shape, known as a hemicycle.
—The Economist, 27 July 2019
The chapel — part of the hemicycle entrance to the cemetery, where two other chapels are up for auction — was in good shape after a recent restoration paid for by the city.
—New York Times, 21 May 2018
Frank Lloyd Wright's Running Water Home Built in 1955 in New Canaan, Conn., this house has a hemicycle or horseshoe shape.
—Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 20 June 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright's Running Water Home
Built in 1955 in New Canaan, Conn., this house has a hemicycle or horseshoe shape.
—Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 20 June 2017
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Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025
Back in the other world of central Dijon, the mayor’s office is housed in the Palace of the Dukes, approached through the magnificent hemicycle of the Place de la Libération, or Liberation Square.
—Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2022
The most influential hemicycle is the French National Assembly, which began sitting in the Palais Bourbon in 1798.
—The Economist, 27 July 2019
American and most European politicians sit in a fan shape, known as a hemicycle.
—The Economist, 27 July 2019
The chapel — part of the hemicycle entrance to the cemetery, where two other chapels are up for auction — was in good shape after a recent restoration paid for by the city.
—New York Times, 21 May 2018
Frank Lloyd Wright's Running Water Home Built in 1955 in New Canaan, Conn., this house has a hemicycle or horseshoe shape.
—Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 20 June 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright's Running Water Home
Built in 1955 in New Canaan, Conn., this house has a hemicycle or horseshoe shape.
—Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 20 June 2017
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“Hemicycle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hemicycle. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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