No feathers or wax can be seen on the Icarus statue which adorns Serbian architect Dragiša Brašovan’s masterful piece of Yugoslav Modernist architecture: the Air Force Command Building in Belgrade. The building is five floors tall, and its central tower soars almost 120 feet into the air.

Mythological figures often feature in Yugoslav buildings. This Icarus statue, designed by sculptor Zlata Markov, stands out on the building’s eastern facade, which can be seen from Glavna Street, and the building itself is hard to miss. The grey monstrosity stands out in the Zemun neighborhood, where one mainly sees the stylistic influences of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

In the 1990s, this building was one of the many damaged in NATO bombing campaigns. Although it has since been abandoned, the Air Force Command Building or komanda ratnog vazduhoplovstva is an absolute must-see, not far from Novi Beograd.