Al Zaqura Building

Al-Zaqura Palace (Arabic: قصر الزقورة) is an Iraqi government building situated in the Green Zone in the capital Baghdad.

It was built in 1975 by Saeed Ali Madhlum and CP Kukreja Associates as the building for the Council of Ministers, or cabinet.

Brutalist style uses one material on the exterior, which is concrete, and is massive in appearance.

[2] The building was targeted during the Iraq War by Coalition forces in aerial bombardment and sustained heavy damage in 2003, which external damage shows in a photograph taken in 2003.

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