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> Besides that, the flying buttresses were not an original feature of the cathedral. Do you have a source for that? I thought a gothic cathedral without flying
by anoncake 7y ago
> Besides that, the flying buttresses were not an original feature of the cathedral.
Do you have a source for that? I thought a gothic cathedral without flying buttresses was like a skyskraper without a steel skeleton. The load-bearing structure isn't generally added to a building after the fact.
- ceejayoz 7y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/world/europe/notre-dame-cathedral-facts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/world/europe/notre-dame-c... > After construction had begun, flying buttresses were added to the design of the cathedral. IIRC, they also upgraded the first set with sturdier ones in the 14th Century.