The flying buttress (arc-boutant, arch buttress) is a specific form of buttress composed of a ramping arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall...

clamped buttress Diagonal or 'french' buttress Setback buttress Examples of Buttresses A buttress and a flying buttress, mostly concealed, supporting walls...

arch in turn led to the development of the pointed rib vault and flying buttresses, combined with elaborate tracery and stained glass windows. At the...

purpose of a buttress is to relay the thrust to the foundations, the structure also accommodates the downspouts. A typical flying buttress used a single-arch...

Romanesque style, including its pioneering use of the rib vault and flying buttress, its enormous and colourful rose windows, and the naturalism and abundance...

American graphic novel publisher. Founded by Terry Nantier in 1976 as Flying Buttress Publications, NBM is one of the oldest graphic novel publishers in...

tracery, was attached to both interior walls and the facade. Even the flying buttresses were given elaborate decoration; they were crowned by small tabernacles...

to rows of columns and outside the walls to another innovation, the flying buttress. Gothic appeared in the Île-de-France region of France, around Paris...

characteristics are verticality, or height, and the use of the rib vault and flying buttresses and other architectural innovations to distribute the weight of the...

the chapels between the buttresses and at the angles of the transept were added. The original design of the flying buttresses around the choir had them...

of the flying buttress in Gothic architecture allowed structures to maintain an open interior space, transferring more weight to the buttresses instead...

early 13th century. The building's exterior is dominated by heavy flying buttresses which allowed the architects to increase the window size significantly...

and radiating chapels. The building is supported with two tiers of flying buttresses. The western end of the nave and the west front were designed by Henry...

Villard de Honnecourt's drawing of a flying buttress at Reims, ca. 1230s (Bibliothèque nationale) Flying buttress with pinnacle and a statue Marker in...

very heavy and often rectified with lead, in order to enable the flying buttresses to contain the stress of the structure vaults and roof. This was done...

advances, such as innovative uses of the pointed arch, rib vault and flying buttress, allowed the churches and cathedral to become much taller and stronger...

combination with other elements, such as the rib vault and later the flying buttress. These allowed the construction of cathedrals, palaces and other buildings...

helped to buttress the nave, if it was vaulted. In the cases where half-barrel vaults were used, they effectively became like flying buttresses. Often aisles...

directed from the wall. When Gothic flying buttresses were used, aqueducts were sometimes cut into the buttress to divert water over the aisle walls...

modifications were possible thanks to another new technology, the flying buttress, which reaches over the collateral aisles to provide support to the...

influence in contemporary time. nave aisles double ambulatory flying buttresses double flying buttresses Arches: pointed arch pier arches Vaults: diamond vaults...

teenage years living in Paris, returned to the United States and formed Flying Buttress Publications, later to incorporate as NBM Publishing (Nantier, Beall...

"flush" with the wall. Flying buttress A type of buttress that transmits the thrust to a heavy abutment by means of a half-arch. Flying rib An exposed structural...

the building. Buttress: Large stone pier holding the roof vaults in place. A buttress may be visible as in the Gothic flying buttress, or it may be hidden...

typeface produced by Filmotype Flyer, one of the two components of a flying buttress Flyer, a U-shaped mechanism in a spinning wheel, invented in the late...

forces in the arch and its "universal adaptability". Buttress Dome Flying arch Flying buttress Order moulding Suspension bridge Gorse, Johnston & Pritchard...

could support it. Walls in Gothic buildings were often abutted by flying buttresses. These elements made it possible to construct buildings with much...

roof trusses, stone ceiling vault, nave; right: exterior walls and flying buttresses. (Annotations) Interior of nave showing rib vaulting; in walls are...

(31 mph). The Spider uses the "flying buttress" as used on all convertible McLaren models. There is an added window on the buttress of the car to increase rear...

its roofline with the Mustang hardtop, the Cougar received a large "flying buttress" C-pillars, extending into the rear fenders. To distinguish the model...