That building is the Pantheon, one of the greatest architectural treasures of the ancient world,
I believe that today’s professionals have a lot to learn from structures like the Pantheon.
I think that old buildings have lessons to teach us.
In many climates around the world, architecture developed specifically to its climate. And today, energy’s relatively cheap, we can air condition our way out of any heat, so we build glass boxes in the desert and in almost any climate in the world.
We have to build an environment by thinking about sunlight, and climate. Instead of just creating skyscrapers, we have to consider energy use, and come up with ways to minimize it. Also local materials and techniques could have an advantage.
We have to look all greenhouse emissions and energy consumption on the planet while choosing interior and exterior matrerials of a building such as steel ,concrete,and glass.
Another important point is that, structure has to be used as several functions,for example an office building as housing according to market needs of that time ,I mean easily adopt to another function.One structure, but many uses,so that cities adapt and evolve.
But by learning lessons from history, and responding to our natural environment,I believe our cities and structures can be built in a more constructive way.
Most buildings are torn down after 40 years so when we design buildings we must think of how they’ll adapt and change over time. With urban transformation projects ,building a new one instead of the old one without thinking climate, ecology and flexibility is not a solution ….