•The Eiffel Tower - The Symbol Of Paris
The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built beside the river Seine in Paris. Originally intended as a structure to commemorate the French Revolution, nobody could have guessed that 100 years later The Eiffel Tower would become the symbol of Paris itself.
The Eiffel Tower has its name after the engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. For two years, 1887-1889, three hundred steel workers struggled to join together 18038 pieces of steel by using 2,5 million steel bolts. When thinking about...
•The Forum Romanum in Rome
Forum Romanum is one of the biggest and most extraordinary archeological sites the world has seen and it is located in a valley between Palatine Hill and Capitoline Hill. The forum is composed of a dozen temples, arches and other structures.
Under construction for centuries
Forum Romanum was under construction for centuries but by the 7th century BC it was a major part of roman culture. It grew into final form under Octavian, son of Julius Caesar in the decades around the beginning of the...
•The Pantheon in Rome - Intelligent Architecture
There are few buildings in the world today that have survived the ravages of time so well as the Pantheon in Rome. This is mainly due to superior engineering. The Pantheon has often been copied, sometimes equaled but never surpassed, it had more architectural innovations than most modern buildings. This makes the Pantheon really extraordinary since it was built around 125 AD under the aegis of the emperor Hadrian.
Superior engineering
The plan is simple enough: a circular enclosure aside a...
|
|