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
I also understood that he had something in common with the builders of the world’s first ziggurat.
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
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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