While on a trip to Utrecht I came across the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Building on the intersection of Huntington and Mass Ave. I noticed that not only did it have Ionic columns but angled ionic columns. Upon seeing this I remembered in class the Greece lecture we had which included the Temple of Athena Nike, at Acropolis. The main element that we learned about the temple was that it had these angled capitals in order to make the temple more aesthetically pleasing from all sides. And in the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Building it looks as if the capitals are also angled for no structural purposes, but more for its looks.
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