ziggurat

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Sotheby’s has moved into Marcel Breuer’s 1966 modernist landmark that looks like an inverted ziggurat and once famously housed the Whitney Museum of American Art.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

There, we set out to erect the planet’s first skyscraper: a ziggurat that would bridge heaven and earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

“There’s also influence from Egypt, from Mesopotamia’s ziggurat architecture, from Aztec architecture and from World War II bunkers, which is the first thing Denis showed me,” Vermette says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2022

It featured a wax cast of his body in a suit, painted pink, with a blackened tongue and a cutoff right hand, housed in a ziggurat.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2021

Gilgamesh stood on the first tier of the ziggurat, surrounded by a crackling cage of electricity.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda