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 ...

In 13BC the Emperor Augustus marched home from three years of imposing peace on his formerly fractious empire, and the Senate promptly commissioned a monument to mark his achievements. Four years ...

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 ...

Using NASA data and new computer simulations, researchers say they've discovered how the sun would have lined up with an Egyptian obelisk and the famed Ara Pacis in ancient Rome. The Ara Pacis, or ...

The new mayor of Rome has told Italian news agencies he would like to demolish the city's newest museum, the Ara Pacis, built near the Spanish steps. Rome's new mayor has told Italian news agencies he ...

Rome, October 10 - The Ara Pacis, an altar built between 13 and 9 BC to celebrate the peace achieved by Augustus across the Roman Empire, will starting on October 14 include an immersive tour ...

ROME — Vandals threw paint-filled balloons at a controversial museum designed by U.S. architect Richard Meier overnight, splashing the red and green colors of the Italian flag against the outside ...