Happy 4th Birthday RST - of Meier, Mosques and Kebabs

Richard Meier's suburban Tor Tre Teste church - Number 1 on the blog.   That's Dianne at left.  Having reached a couple milestones r...

The Building Wars: MAXXI vs MACRO - Rome's Contemporary Art Blockbusters

MAXXI looking good - summer night art work lights up the courtyard,  and the jutting out window is always captivating Is Rome's MAXXI – ...

Riccardo Morandi's Metronio Market

Over the past century, Rome has produced two generations of great architects.   One, serving Mussolini’s Fascist regime, or simply practicin...

Ponte della Musica: Rome's new Bridge to Nowhere

There's a new bridge in town.  Dianne says it's called the Ponte della Musica (music bridge), and I have no reason to doubt her, or ...

Rome's Starchitects: Meier, Piano, Hadid, Fuksas, Portoghesi

Our thoughtful daughter-in-law sent along an article from amNewYork on New York City's "Starchitects," the flashiest of the a...

News Flash: Hadid wins Stirling Prize for Rome's MAXXI

We opened the Monday morning New York Times  to discover that Zaha Hadid had won the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Stirling ...