Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid. Ziggurats were common in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq) from around 4,000 ...

Zeal for the pyramid-shaped federal office building known as the Ziggurat in Laguna Niguel has driven up its price to $164.4 million, more than twice the auction’s starting price. The bidding war has ...

A federal building in Laguna Niguel known as the “Ziggurat” for resembling an ancient Mesoptamian stepped pyramid will soon hit the auction block. The starting bid is $70 million. The General Services ...

The distinctive, pyramid-esque Chet Holifield Federal Building in Laguna Niguel, nicknamed the Ziggurat, has been on the auction block for the last month, but it failed to draw a single bid by ...

Federal officials have decided that the seven-story Ziggurat building in Laguna Niguel will go up for online auction early next year; the starting bid will be $70 million. For more than 50 years, the ...

The Chet Holifield Federal Building, AKA the Ziggurat, a Brutalist-esque structure built from exposed concrete, as seen in 2013. (Beyond My Ken/Wikimedia Commons) Designed by modernist William Pereira ...