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
Around midnight, Henry was able to climb a ziggurat to heaven, and I imagine him watching over us, hoping that we will use the lessons that he taught when our apocalypse arrives.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023
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
Arquitectonica’s beachfront apartment house, the Babylon, for instance, with its multiple interwoven ziggurat wings, was condemned before it reached age 40.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022
The middle of the ziggurat was more untamed jungle than greenhouse.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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