let's see if this works:
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this model - done in about '89 - includes a real egg shell to make the dome!

too literal?...

the original box and egg?

IBM Pavilion NY Worlds Fair - Eames

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kinda an egg



Morphosis has all kinds of eggs, mostly small ones, but you can find them all over the place

impressive!

more?

dali house

Henning Larson Danish Opera
Jean Nouvel Reina Sofia
OMA, Library Jussieu
Adler Sullivan, Chicago Auditorium

and, of course, the

another ando egg, the fukutoshin line at shibuya station



in reality the egg is container for escalator and stairs and such. actually one of ando's more recent buildings that is pretty nice.

I was looking for a courthouse (?) building from a few years ago, which features a large ovoid wood-clad vessel within the larger envelope. Instead I found this:

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tokyo forum...sort of

calatrava 'eye'

oops

morphosis did a competition for alaska's state capitol:

try this link...since i can't do the photo thing.
from morphopedia

Rogers' courthouse in Bordeaux

Darwin Centre - Natural History Museum, London

habitation for one?

tagalong, that is actually a very interesting posting. the future of organic bio-architecture maybe... apparently she said she stayed in there for like 12+ hours. that is def habitation, as you say.