SFGate

Building in Rome, no holiday / The eternal city wants to keep its architecture fixed in time, but the Ara Pacis marks a renaissance of modern era

2006-04-26 04:00:00 PDT Rome-- On a sunny spring day in early April, Nigel Ryan, a project architect for the Ara Pacis museum by architect Richard Meier -- the first new building in the historic heart ...
Hyperallergic

The Grim History of Rome’s Oldest Building

ROME — How do we understand the antiquity of a place? It can often be measured in strata — the mound of Hisarlik, the site of ancient Troy, has more than 40 distinct layers of habitation, which means ...
CNN

Rome is building an eight-story underground museum – but treasures keep getting in the way

Rome, as it’s often said, wasn’t built in a day. And nowhere is that more evident than its state-of-the-art Metro Line C, an ambitious project meant to help relieve the Italian capital’s renowned ...