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ziggurat

[zig-oo-rat] / ˈzɪg ʊˌræt /


NOUN
steeple
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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

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

“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

And there was the mystery of the seven-tiered ziggurat that had appeared overnight in the middle of Central Park.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda




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