verticality height and upward movement

Simon Rodia's prolific use of color seems to have no specific compositional purpose or even a message; he just made them colorful and beautiful. The flying buttresses connected the towers and their bases to each other as well as to the walls that surround the triangular lot on which the whole towers environment was built. In affixing the glass and ceramic shards he didn't mind whether they would appear to be round or angular in shape. He was free.

The tapering of the towers makes them look even higher.