Rome Splurges On Splashy New Architecture As Ancient Monuments Molder

Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi museum has the world’s culturati all abuzz, and Renzo Piano and Massimiliano Fuksas are designing major new developments near Rome’s out-of-the-way ethnography museum. Meanwhile, chunks are falling off the Colosseum, and pieces of the Domus Aurea keep collapsing.