The coliseum

This was literally one of the first photographs that i saw when i was younger and ever since i have been intrigued as to how the Romans got their idea to draw up a design such as the coliseum. But if i told u that then i would be telling you half the story. I am not a pure architect as i do engineering as well and i would be lying if i had told you that the way they built this structure didn't intrigue me as well. Considering the Romans back in those times did not have cranes or any machinery to say that least, the way they built it with the primitive yet effective shovels and picks still amazes me as other people im sure. So this was the first image that got me interested in not only architecture but also engineering as well.