Wedding-cake style

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In architecture, the wedding-cake style refers to buildings with many distinct tiers, each set back from the one below resulting in a shape like a wedding cake. The British wedding-cake style was created by Sir Christopher Wren, who often placed a steeple at the top of a seemingly classical Roman Temple. In the United States, the style is predominant in New York City, thanks to a zoning code which forced buildings to reduce their shadows at street level. In Russia, the style is a typical feature of Stalinist architecture.