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
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
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 took us to the ziggurat entrance and then turned to me.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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