Still, as Kiernat says, the Romans built to impress—and one of the main ways they did this was through domes, arches, and vaults. “While Greek structures tended to be smaller, Roman buildings ...

Classical architecture, meet New York’s luxury high rises. Across the city, architects and developers are embracing loggias: open-air, gallery-style terraces with elegant arches and columns that ...

Roman fountain architecture still lives on in today's gardens and homes. ... Native hedgehogs (cacti) ready to bloom in the desert. The old Roman ruins became popular haunts for the disenfranchised.

It isn’t often that entire cities vanish, but the Roman outpost of Thamugadi did. Founded by the emperor Trajan around A.D, 100, the city, also known as Timgad or Tamugas, was located in the ...

More architects in the United Arab Emirates, the host of this year’s U.N. climate summit, are moving past glass skyscrapers and focusing on sustainability.

TERRACOTTA rooftops, Roman arches and a major music festival attract tourists to a town in France – which looks more like Italy. Clisson, located in the Loire-Atlantique department of western… ...

Today it's a mirage-like expanse of monumental ruins. But under the Roman Empire, Palmyra was a trading metropolis, according to historical and archaeological evidence. Despite nearly a century of ...

A protected UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982, the city is home to densely packed buildings ranging from four to eight storeys, beginning in 300 AD but now mostly built after 1532.

AMMAN – During the Roman occupation of the region, which gradually started in 1st century BC and continued in the following ...

In 1998, James McGirk spent five weeks living and working in Arcosanti, a desert community built in the 1970s that attempts to use ornate architectural planning to help create a harmonious society.