Flying buttress

say it is the most beautiful French Gothic cathedral in all of France. There are so many ways that the architecture of this building shows off the Gothic style of this time period. It has the pointed arch; the rib-and-panel vault; and the flying buttress. Flying buttresses, as discussed earlier, were a huge staple of the Gothic style. This cathedral is also known for its many sculptures and for the intricate stained glass windows. Many of the churches no longer have the original stained glass or…

QIANYINGZI ZHAO,657324ABPL20030, Tuesday 3:15-4:15 Order,form & delineation Collins Street Baptist Church,recorded as the first Baptist church in Victoria,was initially designed by John Gill in 1845. However, by the end of 1850s, the congregation had exceeds its space. The new extension of the church became a matter of urgency. Consequently, Joseph Reed, the architect who designed the Melbourne Town Hall, was appointed to take charge of the project. (www.csbc.org.au )Reed "demolished the…

The cathedrals structure of true archways combined with the adjacent flying buttresses successfully control its load while keeping the building in equilibrium and fully standing. As it nears the grounding of the building, each buttress shape steps out of the central perimeter in a leg-like manner as if it is expressing its reaction to keep the heavy body above it stabilised. When each archway and buttress is looked at in terms of load and direction, this flow almost implies a circulation…

Officer in the Fourteenth Air Force Flying Tigers. This picture was taken before he was deployed to Chengdu, China. He was at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California where the Fourteenth Air Force was based when this photo was taken. This photo was most likely taken after induction in July 1942. Ong was awarded the Anti-Japanese Memorial Medal. This was an Order of Precious Tripod Medal. Ong was a decorated as well as valued member of the Fourteenth Air Force and Flying Tigers. Word Count: 105…

against the demons outside. Gothic architecture is known for having a tall design. The medieval people had to learn to spread the weight of the stone walls to make the cathedrals taller. One thing they invented to help with this problem was the flying buttress. These buttresses act to spread the weight of the tall walls. Buttresses where also decorative and elaborately, they had many different carving on them. Gothic architecture also had pointed archways. This design also helped to distribute…

Smokestacks and Spires A Brief Examination of Gothic Architecture and its Revival The late European medieval period saw the development of what we refer to today as Gothic architecture. Through new technological and design innovations, Europeans built awe-inspiring buildings to house their most precious institutions: royal palaces, castles and cathedrals--many of which remain largely untouched by time’s flow centuries later. Drawing from ancient Roman technological advances, the Gothic…

The Basilica of Santa Maria Novella is located in Florence, Italy. It was built in the beginning of 1246 as a Dominican Church. It received its name because the site on which it is located was the church of Santa Maria delle Vigne in the ninth-century. The word Novella Translates to ‘New’ thus translating to ‘The New Santa Maria’ The Church was designed by several friars, the first being Fra Ristoro da Campi and Fra Sisto Fiorentino. Santa Maria Novella is made up of various additions and…

Medieval Church: Gothic Cathedral The architecture of the medieval Gothic cathedrals is one of the greatest glories of European culture. Since the twelfth century, Gothic art and literature in Europe had become very popular, and were soon brought to perfection in the thirteenth century. The first Gothic cathedral was the abbey of Saint-Denis (built around 1140 and 1150 ce); it was inspired by the famous Abbot Suger. This cathedral was burned down twice and without the reconstruction of it,…

medieval engineers made metal chains to hold the central columns in place of the Gothic cathedrals. The result of this technique was to avoid the collapsing of the Gothic cathedrals. The narrator of the video states that with the metal chains, the flying buttresses, and the design of the stones were the elements needed to construct majestic Gothic cathedrals. However, Gothic cathedrals are made mainly of glass. To have an equilibrium, medieval engineers used rib vaults to hold the…

The Dark Ages, a time of cultural and economic deterioration, were vital in establishing the new era of progression during the Middle Ages. During the Dark Ages, the plague ravaged across European settlements and wiped out more than a quarter of Europe’s population. The crusades, Christians battle for possession of Jerusalem that occurred during the Dark Ages, were unsuccessful. This left the Holy Land in the hands of the Islamic Empire, and tensions between major religions high. During the…