Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic ... architecture, where they were developing new things that had never been seen before, like spires, pinnacles, flying buttresses ...

Gothic architecture ... pointed arches and buttresses evolved. Key to this system was the flying buttress that, as Cannon explains succinctly, 'siphoned off' the weight of the nave, and the ...

In addition, they had structures called flying buttresses ... roots in architecture and long-standing influences on many other things. In fact, the hero of one of the most popular Gothic novels ...

Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest achievements ... revolutionary ribbed vaults and gravity-defying flying buttresses to create an architectural language that had ...