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Up and down cake
An old Bankers Trust building on 14th St between 7th and 8th Avenues in Manhattan. In architecture buildings like this employ a "wedding-cake"style with tiers on the top,one set back from the other below.The tiers are heavily ornamented to resemble "icing" on a cake. The style has been predominant in NYC thanks to the 1916 Zoning Resolution,a former zoning code which forced buildings to reduce their shadows (on nearby buildings) at street level by employing setbacks (the tiers) resulting in a "ziggurat" profile en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding-cake_style
Up and down cake
An old Bankers Trust building on 14th St between 7th and 8th Avenues in Manhattan. In architecture buildings like this employ a "wedding-cake"style with tiers on the top,one set back from the other below.The tiers are heavily ornamented to resemble "icing" on a cake. The style has been predominant in NYC thanks to the 1916 Zoning Resolution,a former zoning code which forced buildings to reduce their shadows (on nearby buildings) at street level by employing setbacks (the tiers) resulting in a "ziggurat" profile en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding-cake_style