The Roman use of arches and columns had a great impact on structure and good-looking buildings ("Ancient Roman Architecture"). Even though they based almost all of their architecture on the making of domes, some of their improvements in the use of materials had a truly great impact. The Holocaust memorial on Meridian Avenue in Miami Beach shows a really great resemblance to Roman architecture, even though Roman temples were supposed to honor the gods and the Holocaust memorial was supposed to honor the deaths of millions of Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis ; the appearance of the columns shows shapes similar to those used in Roman buildings such as Maison Carree, Nimes. The two churches, First Presbyterian Church of Miami and St. Vitale of Ravenna show great similar aspects of early Christian architecture and not only in the matter of being churches, but in the shape and abundant rounded windows. Almost all Byzantine architecture was created to express the relationship between the believer and his God. In these two examples of early Christian architecture you can experience that 4th century similarity and be sure that those similarities still exist in these two churches. Furthermore they have in common not only partially the external appearance but the characteristics of an early Christian church, both have a nave, an apse, an atrium and a narthex. One of the many features used in Islamic architecture was "arabesque". , an element of Islamic art to decorate the windows and also the walls of mosques and buildings. The arabesque is an application of consecutive and repetitive geometric shapes that take their forms from plants, shapes and sometimes ("Islamic") animals. This creative way of designing can be seen in the Dome of… paper medium… all about space and structural elements. In Japanese structures, wood has always been the most used material, and wooden structures were brought to structural and artistic completion like all the great styles of masonry architecture. Vitality and grace are part of the columns and curves that surround the structure, taking on the most diverse shapes like shelves, and not living in the large shapes of the roofs (“Japanese architecture”). In the two structures shown, 1111 Lincoln Road and Kon-dō and the five-story pagoda of Hōryū-ji, there are similar but also differences, for example both have the kind of domino construction process of space upon space, but one a Because of its ancient construction process wood is the abundant material, and the other takes a step towards a real and more durable material, but both take on the elegant look of Japanese architecture.