We posted about the proposed elephant building for the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France, in 1758. Well, several hundred years later, an elephant building (called the Lat Prao Tuk Chang) went up in Bangkok, Thailand!
http://www.thomasriddle.net/high-on-chatuchak/pages/elephant.htm - via Frogsmoke
"Lat Prao" is a name of the street near the building.