The conversion—one of the last projects that the Iraqi-British architect worked on before dying—wraps a landmarked structure in Rome with a futuristic second skin.

However, it was the Romans who fully embraced and refined the arch, turning it into a fundamental element of their engineering: by improving materials — especially through the development of concrete ...

David Childs, the lead architect of the One World Trade Center skyscraper that rose from the site where the Twin Towers ...

Mr. Childs, the lead architect of One World Trade Center, made his first design sketch on a napkin several years after the ...

Valencia-based Jaime Hayon brings his signature blend of art and design to a group exhibition at Rhinoceros Gallery in Rome, ...

Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in ...

Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue. They then brought their find—which has been dated to ...

Today, Greco-Roman statues are striking in their simplicity due to their stark white coloring and blank eyes. But, during antiquity, these statues were actually brightly colored — and, as explored in ...