#ziggurats

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

Zig-terracing in nautical condominium, London, Fare Zone 2

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. 

Elegance in a window zig, Hotel de Paris Tirana Albania

Ambition, pyramidal perhaps? Elbasan, Elba-San

Vernacular double-zig fun in Librazhd, Albania

Penthouse perfection? Deptford Ziggurat

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.

Palatialing the popular: purely decorative brickzig uniting two maisonette doorways in Shadwell. Someone was in a good mood.

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.

Margiela zigs at National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

With sky and trees, slightly broken

A zig where the wasn’t one, in London