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’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

Still, Sevigny’s choices remain throughout, living on as perpetual inspiration: backlit wooden mashrabiya mirrors; ziggurat windows; the carved paneling from York Castle on the walls of the library; and wooden parapets on the terraces.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021

Gilgamesh took us to the ziggurat entrance and then turned to me.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda