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 ...

American architect Richard Meier's controversial restoration of the Ara Pacis museum in Rome opens to the public on Saturday. The museum is home to the Ara Pacis, or alter of peace, which Emperor ...

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 ...

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 ...