If you're making a building, you just anchor your arches in a really massive wall, and the Romans didn't mess around with this sort of thing-- the Pantheon walls are about six meters thick.

With arches, domes and concrete, some of the most impressive architectural structures were born. One such is the Pantheon, a Roman temple with a soaring concrete dome that would put modern ...

limiting the stress placed on the arches hidden within the walls of the rotunda.[5,6] Save this picture! The interior of the Pantheon contains a perfectly spherical volume – a cosmic symbol ...

“While Greek structures tended to be smaller, Roman buildings were all about grandeur, and the use of arches and domes allowed them to span great distances,” she says. “The ...

The precise calculations made in the positioning and construction of the Pantheon mean that the size and shape of the beam perfectly matches, down to the last inch, a semicircular stone arch above ...

The Pantheon is – without any shadow of a doubt ... But the great coffered dome – as high as it is wide – still arches over the interior to extraordinary effect. When it was built ...

“I would think more about the Pantheon, which has arches that illuminate different parts of the building depending on the time of the year. That’s an inspiration.” ...