There’s something undeniably magnetic about Italy’s iconic cities - Florence’s Renaissance flair, Rome’s ancient ruins, and ...

Medieval buildings are surprisingly resilient against earthquakes, however, ... To build the huge cathedrals with large, open interiors, the high, steep Gothic arch was developed.

While digging beneath a former ice cream parlor in the historic city center of Gdańsk, Poland, archaeologists recently came ...

Physics of Stone Arches. By Melissa Salpietra; Posted 10.14.10; NOVA; Medieval architects were masters at building with stone. But as cathedral design evolved, some medieval architects began to ...

Discovering hidden arches, visualizing the sloped outline characteristic of the medieval period, finding a Renaissance engraving on a Roman arch or detecting restorations: these are some of the ...

When Medieval Europeans decided to build massive stone cathedrals, they had to use more complicated designs of arches: one with heavier supports on the sides (called flying buttresses, light blue in ...

TWO Banbury medieval arches are being restored in a project between council, civic and rail leaders. The 13th century arches, which once supported a road bridge, now form part of a railway bridge ...