Grotesque Geometry III

Borromini does a window, the Oratorio, Rome, circa 1630,

Flaming heart - double meaning

sketch 1 • sketch 2 • the finished window

Window from the street

How to break a rule; Edwin Lutyens's little joke.

Traditional advice to architects; never have six surfaces meeting at a point.

fractal door, Edgar Wood Architect, Hale, Cheshire, England, 1908

Duality, on a typerwriter

Bottomless pit

Size of steps varies hyperbolically so you can never lean over far enough to see the bottom.

Photo by Peter Byrne

The coastline of Britain

a man walking round it would not go as far as the dog following him.

an egg drawn with compasses, a circle drawn without them

Dorippe Japonica

Such crabs are not eaten but are thrown back

and have repuredly evolved to resemble a samauri warrior's face.