Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier ...

Even an amateur eye can spot the differences between Silesian and Pomeranian Gothic. The Romanesque buildings were coarse and dark, the Gothic ones gained lightness, their interiors were full of light ...

By the early 1800s though, scholarship on medieval Gothic was growing, and a more archaeological approach emerges. This includes an increasing interest in preserving and restoring older buildings, ...

Gothic architecture, or the 'modern style' as it was known 850 years ago, is immensely popular among architectural historians. Broadcaster and art historian Dan Cruickshank appraises its on-screen ...

Salamanca is known as the Golden City because of its sandstone buildings. Meanwhile, Oxford earned itself the nickname of the City of Dreaming Spires because of its Gothic towers and steeples.

The first expansion included the construction in the 1880s of a group of Victorian Gothic public buildings and the creation of the Oval Maidan. The second expansion was the Backbay Reclamation Scheme ...