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Onion House
The Onion House is an innovative home designed and hand-built by American architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, in Holualoa, Hawaii, (near Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, Kailua-Kona) for the McCormick family (of McCormick & Company, McCormick spice fame), in 1962-3. With the address of 77-6411 Nalani St, Kailua-kona Hawaii, it is an example of Organic architecture, Organic Architecture, or Metaphoric architecture. The arched roof panels resemble a shell, or an onion, while the lava rock walls reference ancient Hawaiian temples, or heiau, which are found along the Kona coast. The roof panels are translucent like onion skin, transmitting sunlight into the house during the day and glowing at night. With no exterior walls, the outdoors are integrated with the living areas, separated only by screen or stained glass. A 70-foot pool wraps around the two main structures. Elizabeth McCormick von Beck commissioned Kellogg to design the home, when he was in his mid-twenties. When they could not find a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus ''Allium''. The shallot is a variety (botany), botanical variety of the onion which was classified as a separate species until 2010. Its close relatives include garlic, scallion, leek, and chive. This genus also contains several other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Allium fistulosum, Japanese bunching onion (''Allium fistulosum''), the tree onion, tree onion (''A.'' × ''proliferum''), and the Allium canadense, Canada onion (''Allium canadense''). The name ''wild onion (other), wild onion'' is applied to a number of ''Allium'' species, but ''A. cepa'' is exclusively known from cultivation. Its ancestral wild original form is not known, although escapes from cultivation have become established in some regions. The onion is most frequently a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
