flying buttresses, and tracery windows. It became the new visual language and it flourished, getting wilder and crazier for 400 years.” To complete this guide of Gothic design, AD chatted with ...

This became possible, and windows became bigger, as the Gothic skeletal system of piers, vaults, ribs, pointed arches and buttresses evolved. Key to this system was the flying buttress that ...

Charlie Hall is Polygon’s tabletop editor. In 12-plus years as a journalist & photographer, he has covered simulation, strategy, and spacefaring games, as well as public policy. It’s also not ...

The 1,500-square-foot property also comes with heated floors, four parking spots, a basement rec room and a kidney pool out ...

It is the largest Catholic cathedral in England. Buttress was picked to develop a masterplan for the Grade II*-listed building in September, as well as to carry out a quinquennial inspection of the ...

Gothic novels have been scaring us for 250 years. The mid-18th Century - an era of dark, satanic mills at home and nightmarish social upheaval abroad - saw public taste shift from traditional ...

Ferrari’s disarmingly debonair chairman has been circling a scale model of a proposal for the company’s new-for-2006 GT supercar and has detected a not-so-subtle buttress cascading from the ...