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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nos 33-35 Eastcheap, which Ian Nairn described as "truly demoniac, an Edgar Allan Poe of a building". Image: Edmund Harris Rogue Gothic is Victorian architecture at its most flamboyant ...
He joined SPAB in 1881 and helped it lobby for better treatment of historic Dorset buildings. His paper Memories of Church Restoration was read at a society meeting in June 1906 and, in one of his ...
In Britain, the Gothic style was revived in the 18th Century, predominantly for churches and university buildings. Baroque architecture is closely entwined with the Counter-Reformation ...
But their buildings are magnificent works of art that ... CVS and Walgreens have been finding new homes in massive gothic castle-like structures. Even better (or worse?) is when a McDonalds ...