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The Fancy Shape

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The Catchrefoil: A Geometrical and Natural Shape

The catchrefoil is both geometrical and natural, but without being too flowery. This just might be what attracts designers to it over and over again. My boys were born in a catchrefoil-shaped building in Chicago. It was cool looking, but according to the people at Northwestern, it was a pretty impractical shape for a modern research hospital.

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