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
In 1990, the ziggurat reopened as L.A.’s first factory outlet mall, and in 2005, the Citadel launched a grand-reopening after adding an additional 126,000 square feet of retail space.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023
This Bible story lent an air of defiant romance to a Southern California ziggurat that supplied grist for my childhood daydreams.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023
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 stood on the first tier of the ziggurat, surrounded by a crackling cage of electricity.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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