Victory Towers

Is this a gothic cathedral? Nay, it is the Victory Towers apartment building, for low and middle-income tenants. However, it does have more than a few characteristics in common with cathedrals such as the Notre Dame of Paris. The most notable elements of this construction include pointed arches supported by buttresses that distribute the pressure of the vaulted ceiling onto the columns and pillars inside and over flying buttresses outside. The first floor's inner and outer lobby's ample space is lighted by glass windows and vitrails.
The door and its tympanum remain important elements of this architecture, and, as in Romanesque churches, those spaces are privileged by sculpture. Besides these elements, pinnacles and gargoyles have been arrayed to impressive effect to complete the picture.
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