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Volcanic ash 'hot-mix' helped Roman concrete endure for thousands of years: Study

Roman concrete is often hailed as a major engineering feat. It has allowed the Empire’s monumental structures to remain ...
Variety

Gallic bio eyes Roman architect

New York-born Gallic auteur Eugene Green is set to return behind the camera with “La Sapience,” a film inspired by the life and work of daring 17th-century architect Francesco Borromini. Swiss-born ...
Barron's

Worldwise: Roman Architect Achille Salvagni’s Favorite Things

From nine-figure homes to megayachts that are done up to the hilt, the Roman architect and designer Achille Salvagni is behind some of the top luxury residential projects in existence today: A ...
Architectural Digest

Roman Empire on the Mind: 5 Buildings That Justify the Male Fixation With the Era

“Every time I fight people, I think about walking into the Colosseum,” Adam Woolard, a model and boxer, told his fiancée, former Bachelorette Hannah Browne, in a viral TikTok. “It’s like, if this is a ...
The New Yorker

Rome, Built in a Day by an Architect on Adderall

ROME—Historians are calling into question the veracity of one of Western civilization’s most oft-quoted maxims, following the discovery of a thousand-page personal diary belonging to the ancient ...