Wedding-cake style

• In Italy, the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II is in wedding cake style.
• The British wedding-cake style was created by Sir Christopher Wren, who often placed a steeple at the top of a series of classically details diminishing lower stages as with St. Paul's Cathedral.
• In the United States, the style has been predominant in New York City, thanks to the 1916 Zoning Resolution, a former zoning code which forced buildings to reduce their shadows at street level by employing setbacks, resulting in a ziggurat profile. The dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. is also described as being of wedding-cake style.
• In Russia, the wedding-cake style supercharged with boldly scaled classical detailing is a typical feature of Stalinist architecture.