Researchers have been concerned that without their icy buttresses, these walls could collapse.
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Megan I. Gannon,
Scientific American,
6 May 2026
Three setbacks provide space for landscaped terraces, and at these floors, the structural columns slope inward, becoming tall buttresses that reintegrate into the latticework.
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