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The Chet Holifield Federal Building, colloquially known as "the Ziggurat Building", is a United States government building in Laguna Niguel, California.It was built between 1968 and 1971 for North American Aviation/Rockwell International, and designed by William Pereira.
The Ziggurat is a ten-story, stepped pyramidal office building and adjacent five-story concrete parking structure located at 707 3rd Street in West Sacramento, California, on the shore of the Sacramento River. Designed by Sacramento architect Edwin Kado [1] to resemble the ancient Mesopotamian ziggurats, the building was built by The Money Store in
Before the ziggurats there were raised platforms that date from the Ubaid period during the sixth millennium BCE. [7] The ziggurats began as platforms (usually oval, rectangular or square). The ziggurat was a mastaba-like structure with a flat top. The sun-baked bricks made up the core of the ziggurat with facings of fired bricks on the outside ...
Although similar in some ways to Egyptian pyramids, these New World structures have flat tops (many with temples on the top) and stairs ascending their faces, more similar to ancient Mesopotamian Ziggurats. [1] [2] The largest pyramid in the world by volume is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the east-central Mexican state of Puebla.
A ziggurat is a pyramidal structure that first appeared during ancient times in the Middle East. It may also refer to: A ziggurat algorithm, a number generating algorithm; The Ziggurat, the Chet Holifield Federal Building in Laguna Niguel, California; The Ziggurat, an office building in West Sacramento, California
He managed to move the tiles of the tower to another location, but his death stopped the reconstruction, and it was demolished during the reign of his successor Antiochus Soter. Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BC) wrote an account of the ziggurat in his Histories, which he called the "Temple of Zeus Belus". [29]
Ziggurats were built by the Sumerians, Babylonians, Elamites and Assyrians as monuments to local religions. The probable predecessors of the ziggurat were temples supported on raised platforms or terraces that date from the Ubaid period [ 1 ] during the 4th millennium BC , and the latest date from the 6th century BC.
In most cases they are not true pyramids. There are hundreds of these in many different styles throughout Mexico and Central America. These were made by several pre-Columbian cultures including the Olmecs, [1] Maya, [2] Toltecs, [3] and Aztecs. [4] In most cases they were made by city states that created many structures in the same style.