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In 2024, Beijing Central Axis: A Building Ensemble Exhibiting the Ideal Order of the Chinese Capital was listed as a UNESCO ...

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I feel it’s important for you to understand the structure of a set of stairs before you get out your saw and framing square.

"It’s amazing to think that this thing I have been working on in various capacities for the last eight years is about to send ...

under your feet, and it doesn’t come with all the carbon baggage that other [building] materials come with,” says studio founder Jonathan Tuckey. As a building technique, rammed earth—which combines ...

We explore the stunning survivals of Roman Naples, where ancient theaters are buried under city streets, and return to Rome to uncover the true origins of two iconic churches. One is a princess's tomb ...

The ancient Romans could make exceptional concrete mortars but as Pliny the Elder notes, poor mortar was the cause of the collapse of buildings in Rome. So just because they could make good mortar, ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the construction of buildings, bridges, and aqueducts, many of which are still ...

An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...

A newly excavated, ancient construction site at Pompeii, frozen in time after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, has allowed archaeologists to finally determine the methods used to make Roman concrete.