rotunda

Beneath the rotunda, Trump also showed Xi the US constitution, the document that set out the principles of the country's democratic government two and a half centuries ago.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

“And that means the smaller rotunda, which now enjoys a measure of light and freedom, will have a slab behind it,” she wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Go the Capitol rotunda and look up at the dome, where Constantino Brumidi’s fresco The Apotheosis of Washington, painted during the Civil War, shows Washington in heaven, flanked by goddesses.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026

“But she walked into the rotunda and she started reading Lincoln’s words that are engraved into the wall. It was such a moving moment.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

He was standing on the second-floor balcony at the far side of the rotunda.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

A famous example was a 1986 column on the Solomon R. Guggenheim’s proposal to expand its iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building by erecting a rectangular tower behind the smaller of the building’s two rotundas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Last year for Doors Open Day the Malin Group engineering firm which now inhabits one of the rotundas allowed the public to visit.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024

Arenas and stadiums are circumscribed spaces — rotundas if you will — with miniature societal compacts, and when you lack self-management in that space, you get ejected.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2021

TV news crews often do live hits and interviews from both rotundas.

From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2019

Heads without crowns are quite other sort of rotundas.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney