Gontish Architecture

Gontish design is marked by a high degree of symmetry, usually fourfold.
Buildings were usually built from limestone and granite on a square or oblong plan, with distinctive, square pillars at each corner. Roofs and minarets in the Gontish style featured concave sides and sharp corners, again on a square plan. Later ruins show evidence of rhomboidal design elements. Poorer buildings show remains of lime-clay render and whitewash, while wealthy abodes were clad in marble and decorated with precious stones, although all but a few traces of these materials have long-since been stripped by looters, leaving little evidence to counter a popular perception that mighty Gond was a culture of mud huts and malingerers.
Only one structure form the Empire remains completely intact. The Gond Apexi was the largest known Gontish structure, believed to have been the palace of the Gond hyaGond. How it survived the Cataclysm so undamaged is a mystery, since no-one has ever managed to enter the Apexi and return alive, but they are fiercely protected from looters by the local half-giant sodalities.