"Transmission" by Hari Kunzru: "As every Londoner Knows, In Vitro, Sir Nigel Pelham's landmark housing comples, is a blue-glass ziggurat, twenty stories hight at its peak, curved along a shallow arc on the south side of the Thames. (110).

A ziggurat is a temple tower that is most commonly associated with Mesopotamian valley and Iran. It is in the form of a terraced pyramid and was usually made out of mud brick in the interior and baked brick on the exterior.

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