If we learned anything from the recent fire and reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris, it is that the building of a Gothic cathedral depends on countless prosaic operations—the felling of oak trees, ...

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...

Here, AD rounds up famous buildings from around the world that you’ll be glad you’ve seen when you look back on your travels. It’s been said that travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you ...