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Fashion zig london

Not without a certain value

Inverted zig-gate in blue iron embracing a grid panorama sunset. Scopello (TP), Italy

Urban ziggurat integrating mono and duochromatic tilework, non-utilitarian cantilevered roof, glass bricks and giant ampule (now broken). Spectacular vernacular in New Cross, London

Chiselled spectral cathodic ziggu-separé in televiZIGja Studio 5, HR ‘88, selecting the zig zag 1989 hit Rock Me Baby which would go on to win Eurovision and bring the competition in 1990 to… ZIG-ZAGREB!

Zig in the night, Ballard-land, Poplar, London…

Flying ziggurats! London.

Shadow-zig, south london

Ziggurat-shaped solar farm in Bedfordshire, UK (photographed off Channel 4 news)

Lazy zig: on a slant. Calle Los Morros, Arrieta, Lanzarote. Spanish Africa. Courtesy of DGL. 

Vernacular double-zig fun in Librazhd, Albania

Zig actions: coffee caddy

Lebanese mirror-zigs, forming a refreshing façade in Deptford, SE London

Unintentional devastation zig caused by the architectural collapse of architecture that is nevertheless conscious of itself as architecture. We might even go as far as to hypothesise that this ziggurat is in fact a form of protest: shite vernacularism emancipating itself by elevating itself to the ineffable abstraction of the zig through its own decay. Thank you, wall behind Iceland.

Ohrid streetlamps are all inverted ziggurats

Double zig logo of company very often seen but what on earth do they do

Zig motif curtains for maximum warmth

Nije vazno sta je

6 from the left, excellent for dancing slowly lit like photographs

if only a leg had more than 3 joints

Leaning out, more support <3

Multi-dimensional zigs in highly decorative archi-folk interior, Southern Europe

Faux domestik shop window in Southern Italia

Adventures in vernacular logo design: but what does it mean? Where does it go? What does it stand for? Bathrooms? Kebabs? Estate agents? Fashion? Italian shoes? Upside-down beer cans floating mid-air on the anthracite wall? Classic zig-stupefaction in Peckham, SE London.

Alessandro Mendini, MASTER of ziggurats, performs in an endless double-zig for interiors, to nowhere, like homes

With sky and trees, slightly broken

It depends on how you look at it

1960s MAGAZIG holder, bakelite, Italy

Ziggurat-adorned dressing table set, vernacular deco/liberty, Italian.

A zig where the wasn’t one, in London 

“The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories.”