Buttress
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A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient buildings, as a means of pr
Buttresses of Miag-ao Church, Philippines
A buttress and a flying buttress, mostly concealed, supporting walls at the Palace of Westminster
Buttress at Our Saviour's Chapel, Żejtun, Malta
Façade buttresses at Milan Cathedral, Italy
Flying buttress
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The flying buttress is a specific form of buttress composed of a ramping arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass, to convey to the ground the lateral forces that pus
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…Early examples of buttresses are found on the Eanna Temple (ancient Uruk), dating to as early as the 4th millennium BC. In addition to flying and ordinary buttresses, brick and masonry buttresses that support wall corners can be classified according to their ground plan. A clasping or clamped…
Arching above a side aisle roof, flying buttresses support the main vault of St. Mary's Church, in Lübeck, Germany.
The 4th-century Rotunda of Galerius in Thessaloniki, Greece, showing an early example of flying buttresses
Flying buttress of Reims Cathedral, as drawn by Villard de Honnecourt
Architectural drawing of a Neo-Gothic flying buttress for the late 19th-century Votive Church, in Vienna