The role of openings in architecture and how flat roof windows balance light, privacy, and ventilation for healthier spaces.

How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

Lovely views are all around at Petřín Hill, one of the largest greenspaces in Prague. Go to enjoy the fragrant Rose Garden, ...

The conversion—one of the last projects that the Iraqi-British architect worked on before dying—wraps a landmarked structure ...

However, it was the Romans who fully embraced and refined the arch, turning it into a fundamental element of their engineering: by improving materials — especially through the development of concrete ...

What does it take to perform the perfect jump in the sport of pole vaulting? Armand Duplantis has the answer.

St. Louis architecture has a style all its own ... and deservedly so. "That big barrel vault is just so magnificent," Guenther says. "The stencil work and the patterns are gorgeous.

Warren Buffett has surpassed Bill Gates on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Berkshire Hathaway CEO is up an unmatched $18.7 billion this year to $161 billion. Buffett has consistently trailed ...

With its radical buildings by Eliel Saarinen and Alvar Aalto, the Finnish capital is one of Europe’s most fascinating, if lesser-sung, design capitals. A view of the elegant Ullanlinna, Eira and ...

Still, the team managed to unearth a wealth of relics in the vault that date to the Hellenistic ... combined with the votive offerings and architecture found outside the monument, “clearly ...

Gothic architecture, exemplified by cathedrals, was characterized by innovations like rib vaulting and flying buttresses, allowing for lighter structures and larger windows that filled interiors ...