Tag: engineering

All the articles with the tag "engineering".

• Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Goldsmith Closed the Biggest Hole in Christendom

  Published: 29 May, 2026

  • 11 min read

  Brunelleschi's dome in Florence was started without a finished plan, built without scaffolding from below, and has never needed a major repair. How a goldsmith with a temper closed the largest hole in Christendom.

• The Pantheon Dome: How Rome Cast a Concrete Sky That Has Not Fallen in 1,900 Years

  Published: 24 Apr, 2026

  • 12 min read

  The Pantheon dome is still, after nineteen hundred years, the largest unreinforced concrete dome on earth. How the Romans cast it -- and why it has not fallen.