One thing you learn quickly in Rome is that there is not a lot of contemporary architecture in the historic center. Newer high profile works tend to be clumped at the edges, like Renzo Piano’s Parco ...

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 ...

The new Ara Pacis Museum in Rome opened in the spring of 2006. The museum was designed by the international architect Richard Meier and has been subject to much controversy and criticism. The Ara ...

Workers paint over the splatters on the back wall of the museum designed by U.S. architect Richard Meier. ((Riccardo De Luca/Associated Press)) The Ara Pacis museum, a controversial modern museum in ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Rome's new mayor has ...

(ANSA) - Rome, August 22 - Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno said Monday that work will start in January on modifying American architect Richard Meier's controversial Ara Pacis Museum. Alemanno, who once ...

Richard Meier's Ara Pacis museum--whose white-on-white Modernist design has evoked the ire of Rome's right-wing, Traditionalist mayor--was splashed with red and green paint by vandals, who also let ...

(ANSA) - Rome, June 1 - A wall of Rome's controversial Ara Pacis museum was spattered in bursts of red and green paint on Monday in an attack by unidentified vandals. Police arrived on the scene at ...

This week, we look at the use of Lego to model ancient technology and then explore the areas of manuscript digitization, 3D printing and reconstructing historical soundscapes. Finally, we head over to ...