Gothic architecture, or the 'modern style' as ... Key to this system was the flying buttress that, as Cannon explains succinctly, 'siphoned off' the weight of the nave, and the outward thrust ...

As an example of Gothic architecture, it bears many iconic elements of the style: pointed arches, flying buttresses, tall ...

all hallmarks of the Gothic style of architecture. But they only exist because of one structural support: "flying buttresses." ...