They soar impossibly skyward, their spires pierce clouds, and their stained glass transforms sunlight into kaleidoscopes of color. Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest ...

While Europe is home to the most impressive, original Gothic cathedrals, you can find churches in the Gothic-revival style right here in Louisiana.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: David Clapp/Getty Images Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary ...

It has been eight centuries, to the year, since Pope Honorius III issued an edict to raise money for a new cathedral in the city of Metz. And while it would be years before the first stone was laid, ...

Few architectural styles are more visually striking than Gothic cathedrals. Due to their elaborate design and extraordinary construction, they aren’t exactly commonplace, but across Europe there are ...

If all that remained of architecture from the 12th to the 16th centuries were the astonishing diagrams now on view in “Gothic by Design” at the Met Museum, you might suppose you were looking at wild ...

The Cathedral Basilica of The Assumption building was in good shape, but it needed some repairs to keep it intact for ...

Editor’s Note: Mark Foster Gage is an American architect and founder of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York. He is also a professor of architecture at Yale University School of Architecture.

The Notre Dame Cathedral will survive a massive fire that threatened the 800-year-old Parisian landmark and, in it, one of the most famed examples of French Gothic architecture in the world. Built ...

For more than a century, Barcelona's skyline has been defined by the rising towers of the Sagrada Familia. Designed by visionary architect Antoni Gaudi, the basilica has been under construction since ...

Discover Pennsylvania’s 42-story Gothic skyscraper, known as the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere and a ...