The oldest record of barrel vaults is estimated to date back to 4000 BC. These provided the spans in the Sumerian ziggurat at Nippur in Babylonia, built from fired bricks amalgamated with clay mortar.

ARCHITECTURE HOme in a Barrel VaultNew museums of late have tended to verge on the grandiose: the columned temple form of the Los Angeles County Museum, the mighty, circular Hirshhorn Museum planned ...

The house architect Beverley Spears designed for herself and her husband, Phillip Crump, has not won any formal accolades yet, because it’s brand new. But there’s no doubt it will be an award-winner.

Architecture studio MAPAA has created a barrel-vaulted concrete office for a family-run wine business based in Pirque, Chile. MAPAA used pigmented concrete to create a trio of arching vaults over the ...

Cincinnati is a beer town, right down to its (beer) gut. In the 19th century, when beer barons ruled the streets, local consumption of the stuff was at an all time high. The result was one of the ...

Mariano Azuela 194's barrel vault rooftop makes it stand out in its Mexico City neighbourhood, Santa Maria la Ribera. The design, a housing scheme by studio Bloqe Arquitetura, was conceived to offer ...