Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully observed the same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman ... cities were housed in "insulae." These were small ...

The key consideration for living room design is to ensure the setup works for entertaining as well as it does for everyday life, according to owner and president of Drury Design Gladys Schanstra.

The Roman Empire, a powerhouse of its time ... Due to crowding in Rome, they developed apartment blocks called ‘insulae‘. These could be multiple stories high, housing the poor in cramped ...

The design and construction of these structures illustrated an advanced level of engineering knowledge. Roman toilets had their own plumbing and sewers, sometimes using water from bath houses to ...

It might surprise you then to learn that we can list 28 amazing Roman inventions and innovations ... In dense urban areas, Romans often lived in apartment blocks – or insulae – that were ...

The availability of University Villas Premium Singles varies depending on the number of students requesting on-campus housing in any given year. We are only able to offer 5-person (seen in layout) and ...

Our initial design fit 117 apartments. Upon further review, we squeezed in 139 units, with studios ranging between about 320 and 470 sf. Odd-shaped niches house amenity spaces, such as a music ...

Roman religion was divided into two. Spirits watched over people, families and households, and the paterfamilias was in charge of the household worship that honored them. Romans also had a set of ...

When 26-year-old Jordan Simone returned to her apartment in Greensboro, N.C., after a vacation, she found an unpleasant surprise: The ceiling above her shower had changed colors. “It turned a ...

As the climate alarm sounds, artists seem to want to instruct us. Two sculptors stray from the crowd with ambiguous, beautiful and frightening ecological works. By Walker Mimms For “PST Art ...