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Octagon buildings and structures are characterized by an octagonal plan form, whether a perfect geometric octagon or a regular eight-sided polygon with approximately equal sides.

Australia
• The office pods of Callam Offices in CanberraChinaman's Hat an octagonal gazebo-like structure in the South Channel of Port Phillip Bay • The Octagon Theatre at the University of Western Australia. • The old site of Hotel Saville in South Yarra, Melbourne, now unofficially referred to as The Blocktagon, which was renovated into a residential dwelling made up of six octagonal apartments during the eleventh season of reality show The Block. • Nauru House 80 Collins Street, Melbourne • Sancta Sophia College within The University of Sydney. Referred to as the octagon or informally ‘octa’ == Canada ==
Canada
At least 19 historic octagon houses are known to exist in Canada distributed across 4 eastern provinces. For a list of these houses, See: List of octagon houses. In Canada, the octagon house craze also engendered an octagonal deadhouse phenomenon. This included octagonal deadhouses, pre-burial edifices, built in the mid to late 1800s along Yonge Street in south-central Ontario, from just north of Toronto to Aurora. • Bastion Nanaimo, British Columbia • Chapel at Dundurn, Hamilton, Ontario • Miscou Island Lighthouse – strategic Baie des Chaleurs octagonal colonial lighthouseHuron County Gaol – distinctive octagonal jail design, 1839–41 • Pachena Point Light on Vancouver Island, British Columbia • Speedside United Church, in Centre Wellington, Ontario == China ==
China
Liaodi Pagoda, China (1000s) • Lingxiao Pagoda, China (860) • Also many other pagodas == Egypt ==
Egypt
Ethiopia
Germany
Palatine Chapel in Aachen, built c. 972 • Dragon House, 1870 garden folly, Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany • Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, built 1961 == Greece ==
Greece
Tower of the Winds, Athens, Greece == Hungary ==
Hungary
Rumbach Street synagogue, Budapest == India ==
India
Satyagnana Sabha, Vadalur, Vadalur, Tamil Nadu == Iran ==
Iran
Ferdows Religious School, Toon • Jabalieh == Israel ==
Israel
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem. 687-691 CEChapel of the Ascension, Jerusalem c. 382 CE by Saint Helena; original octagonal shrine has been reconstructed multiple times. == Italy ==
Italy
Octagonal Hall, Baths of Diocletian (300), RomeLateran Baptistery (440), Rome • The Baptistery (5th century), AlbengaBaptistery of San Giovanni, Florence (1059) • The Battistero or Baptistery of Parma (1196) • Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna (547) • Castel del Monte (Apulia), Andria (BT) (1240s) • Church of St. Giacomo, Vicovaro (1400s) • Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence (1584) == Japan ==
Japan
• Yumedono at Hōryū-ji, Ikaruga (739) • Octagonal Hall of Eisan-ji, Gojō (760-764) • Hokuendō of Kōfuku-ji, Nara (1210) • Saiendō of Hōryū-ji, Ikaruga (1250) • Main Hall of Keikyuin of Kōryū-ji, Kyoto (1251) • Three-Story Pagoda of Anraku-ji, Ueda (1290s) • Aizendō of Tōfuku-ji, Kyoto (1333-92) • Main Hall of Busshō-ji, Mito (1585) • Nanendō of Kōfuku-ji, Nara (1789) • Nippon Budokan, Tokyo (1964) • Pagoda of Genjo Sanzoin Complex in Yakushi-ji, Nara (1991) • Sugamo Ohdai Kannondō in Taisho University, Tokyo (2013) == New Zealand ==
New Zealand
The Octagon, the former Trinity Congregational Church in Christchurch, New Zealand == Norway ==
Norway
with memorial for fishermen who lost their lives at sea • Ankenes ChurchBardu ChurchBuvik ChurchDolstad Church, mixed octagonal-cruciform • Klæbu ChurchRøssvoll ChurchStøren ChurchTrinity Church (Oslo), octagonal-cruciform combined • Vinje Church (Hemne) == Portugal ==
Portugal
Convent of Christ (Tomar, Portugal), 12th-15th Century. The adjacent chapel is only one of two octagonal chapels in the world. The other is in Jerusalem. • Charola, Portuguese Info on the Chapel of the Convent of Christ. == Singapore ==
Singapore
Lau Pa Sat, a dining hall and market == Spain ==
Spain
Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera has an Octagonal Tower, in Almohad style • El Micalet is the bell tower of Valencia Cathedral. == Sri Lanka ==
Sri Lanka
Temple of the Tooth == Sweden ==
Sweden
Hedvig Eleonora Church, Stockholm (1737) == United Kingdom ==
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