Sometimes, these buildings replace dilapidated and unsightly edifices, so no big loss.
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Yet the crumbling edifices of earlier eras are also, amazingly, still inhabited.
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Fire enough salvos of comedy and their solemn edifices start to crumble.
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Other views can be seen between and through the edifices closest to us.
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The new Gem is one of the few modern edifices in downtown Deadwood.
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Many are fact-based, set amid the imposing edifices and featureless bureaucracies of Washington.
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" As pop tastes have swung between elaborate musical edifices and back-to-basics reactions, "Sgt.
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It's part of a larger celebration of enlightenment and the monumentality of Paris's mighty edifices.
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All edifices crumble sometime but even in his prime, Ferentz was rickety as often as sturdy.
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Brick by brick, relationship by relationship, decision by decision, the edifices of resistance are being built.
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A joy of strolling the streets of New York is to see so many varied edifices.
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Our main interaction with these money-tending edifices is through the tiny money-spitting mouths of ATMs.
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Our cities are turning into more of an architectural hodgepodge, where skyscrapers gleam next to crumbling edifices.
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Architecture businesses have long used graphics to give their customers virtual tours of as-yet-unbuilt edifices.
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Hence, the prodigious exterior variety of these edifices, at whose foundation dwells so much order and unity.
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It's a gigantic enemy with a body made entirely of city material: skyscrapers, office blocks, restaurants, residential edifices.
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" He added, "I would hope that when people stand in front of edifices like that, that they remember that.
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Future edifices of international governance that draw support from people who are now fire-breathing enemies of international governance?
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Gadhafi lived long enough to see the finer edifices of his empire smashed, overrun and looted by angry citizens.
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The current code, after a century of evolution, would not have approved 40 percent of the city's standing edifices.
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She has a talent for building elaborate edifices, then chipping away at them until the pain underneath is visible.
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That neat narrative — and all the edifices that have been built upon it — is an exclusionary fiction, at best.
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Tokyo's major edifices of the 20th century, like the 11-story Okura, were modest by comparison with other global cities.
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Yet more arduous labors lie ahead: rebuilding communities, retrofitting ancient structures and edifices with earthquake-proof technology and restoring normalcy.
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It draws on Seljuk and Byzantine influences, like many of Turkey's most celebrated edifices, including the Selimiye and Suleymaniye Mosques.
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Now, often beset by tourists, these edifices are emptying as their congregations shrink or simply become too expensive to maintain.
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Steinberg loved to build elaborate edifices from this one basic element, and that idea sums up his approach to drawing.
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The destruction of hundreds of historic buildings or their transformation into gaudy edifices in the "Luzhkov style" drew criticism from some.
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Today, the skyline is dominated by tall, flashy edifices as dozens of construction companies build towering apartment blocks for wealthy buyers.
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What they found was that the social evolution of entertainment has transformed these immense edifices of cement into desolate eco-monstrosities.
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This is an area where unencumbered views of canals, alleyways and colorful, crumbling edifices abound, as do bakeries, cafes and neighborhood bars.
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Many parts of Italy contain subterranean riches, and over the centuries, countless edifices have incorporated or adapted the ruins of previous eras.
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Impossibly thick groupings of electrical wires, micro-thin streets and strangely stacked homes exist side by side with gargantuan edifices and broad boulevards.
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We see shimmering edifices of cultural wealth erected on the backs of hyperexploited labor—the pyramids and coliseums of the twenty-first century. ….
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But someday it will become inconvenient to our newly gleaming edifices, and it and the people who live there will be washed away.
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Then came the tech boom and the race was on to build the glass and steel edifices that populate the world's great cities.
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Downtown Ashgabat is filled with huge monuments and buildings, which along with their marble edifices, are often adorned with lavish amounts of gold.
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Technicians spend most of their working hours in a series of windowless, prefabricated trailers or in portable boxlike edifices that look like storage containers.
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The trucks, scaffolding, and roadworks that jam each corner will soon leave an unfamiliar place, replacing Georgian edifices with cheap brickwork and plastic shop fronts.
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And the potential health risks are not a welcome topic in a country with ramshackle edifices masquerading as hospitals and poor public expenditure on basic facilities.
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All that's left is to look up at the breathtaking, long-dormant edifices that scream into the sky before us and wonder what they once were.
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After 150 years of insecurity as this country gazed across the sea at the edifices of European culture, here was the New World finally in command.
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On my visits to the City of Light, I am drawn to smaller, tucked-away edifices — most of them private mansions, many with ivy-kissed courtyards.
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That does not necessarily make its telling more significant than the city's other edifices, only that our understanding of 1 WTC registers with a combined potency.
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Landmark designation in NoHo means that most of the Beaux-Arts and Romanesque edifices in the area are, in effect, off-limits to ground-up development.
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But Black Panther keys in on the darker underbelly of Wakanda in ways that might not be immediately obvious from the gleaming edifices of its capital city.
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In Hà Ninh Pham's drawings, a building could be a prison or a torture chamber, but there is nothing about the edifices that might indicate their function.
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The pricey pied-à-terre is perched on a crazy-chic block of Neo-Georgian edifices originally erected by the Clark family more than 100 years ago.
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In this part of the city, there are a number of religious edifices, including the famous Yasukuni Shrine and the main cathedral of the Japanese Orthodox Church.
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Such behavior is why his millions of supporters stick by him still, but it repeatedly brings him into conflict with the edifices of political and legal accountability.
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If Mark envied Liz at all, it was for the growing kudos that E. W. West enjoyed as a writer who disturbed edifices of gender and sexuality.
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What we now see is how they've had to build foundations, offer more services and add depth to their offering — these companies have moved from facades to edifices.
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These edifices are remarkable artifacts in terms of understanding the organization and achievements of the Chacoan society that existed in the canyon between the ninth and 13th centuries.
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Through the headset, I could see spare, modern looking rooms, a distinct lack of exterior walls and a mountainous vista, including some rocky edifices floating in the sky.
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I nevertheless suspect that some of the increasingly vandalized Columbus edifices are not long for this world, but Italian-Americans will make themselves heard about what replaces them.
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It was a classic Trumpian move, akin to the days when he would knock down New York buildings to make way for visions of grander, more glorious edifices.
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There are other significant edifices there too, including the Chicago Water Tower, built in 21997, and the McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum, a movable bridge over Chicago River.
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They rest on rubble found in Bushwick, what's left in the street and in vacant lots, where older edifices are being replaced by more upscale housing and development.
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Documenting dance and movement athletics in film, the artist pushes the conceptual edifices of Indigenous experience through her production of text-based practices through the circuitry of the gallery.
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What elements of the rules based systems must be fortified or patched up now so they don't become irreparably cracked edifices let alone the crumbled ruins of Brexit's aftershocks.
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Aurora's producers and songwriting collaborators, primarily Odd Martin Skalnes and Magnus Skylstad, build crystalline electronic edifices completed by her many vocals: celestial choirs, rhythmic interjections, gangs of unison reinforcements.
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Rapid development over the last four decades of breakneck economic growth has seen many old buildings demolished and cookie-cutter skyscrapers and other edifices put up in their place.
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That works well for much-snapped edifices in holiday hotspots, but getting equivalent sets of pictures for parts of the natural environment means finding something specific that is equally photogenic.
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Rather, they seem to simply stand there as giant hard edifices and you have to navigate your way through, and it's only then that you get to the softness beyond.
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The artists presented include Mohamad Hafez, who creates tiny, war-torn urban edifices; and Issam Kourbaj, who created an installation of a scaled-down view of refugee camp in 2015.
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Most of the town's edifices are built on wood piles frozen into the permafrost; now that it is melting ever deeper, these are at risk of rotting, and so becoming unstable.
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Indicting the colonial system that created so much of Europe's wealth and so many of its troubles, the production implicitly condemned the cultural edifices that system made possible: opera, not least.
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No longer a notorious red light district, Keong Saik Road on the edge of Chinatown has seen globally oriented restaurants and bars taking up its Art Deco edifices and narrow shophouse.
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There was no doubt that the tower was one of the skull edifices mentioned by Andres de Tapia, a Spanish soldier who accompanied Cortes in the 1521 conquest of Mexico, Barrera said.
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There are also first-rate museums, vivid street art, some splashy new hotels in centuries-old edifices and, tucked away in the maze of cobblestone streets, some of the country's best restaurants.
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In New York politics, the city's district attorneys have long been the edifices of elective office: legal lions presiding for years — often decades — over courthouse fiefs beyond the influence even of City Hall.
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In the service of maximizing shareholder value, investors and their allies dismantled the corporate and government edifices that had done so much good — high wages, company research labs, rigorous regulation and redistributive taxation.
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As Maureen Orth reports in Vulgar Favors, the firm he founded with business partner Paul Beitler built many of downtown Chicago's most prestigious edifices, including Madison Plaza and the Chicago Bar Association Building.
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Their variety is stunning: Modernist towers preach cool minimalism, high-tech edifices lay bare their structures and systems, postmodern constructions embrace gaudy shapes and historical references, and today's towers often decompose before our eyes.
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While Minecraft was designed for gamers, its immersive nature and the ability to quickly move around and construct edifices makes it easy to see how new buildings will look when inserted into an existing landscape.
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He went up to the mountain house with Deirdre and checked on the creches, but they had weathered it well, ensconced in insulated metal edifices methodically bolted and made to withstand even attack from megafauna.
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At night his scale becomes palm-size as he carefully transforms scavenged piano keys, old radio components, a gas-mask filter and even a dried eggplant into the weathered building blocks of tiny urban edifices.
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The back-to-back events highlighted the challenge for a career developer whose main goal since taking office six months ago has been to raze what he sees as the poorly constructed edifices he inherited.
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In the arid northern deserts of Nevada, far from the bright lights and towering edifices of Las Vegas, the Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One took a gamble and won, successfully testing its linear induction propulsion system.
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His architectural language suggests flexibility and organic mutability, an approach — not entirely unlike Zaha Hadid's — that can generate pleasing visual and spatial effects, particularly in relation to the literal immutability of monumental urban edifices and megastructures.
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It's run by an artificial intelligence and hasn't been used in 50 years, because most people consider "AI hotels" their last resort, especially when there are massive, gleaming edifices stretching (or floating) high above the clouds.
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Havana residents joke that their's might be the only city in the world where it's safer to walk in the middle of the road than on the sidewalks, in case the heavy stone edifices come crashing down.
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Not much is known about the people who built the edifices, but they are thought to have constructed them at least 2,5003 years ago and maybe as far back as 9,000 years ago, according to Dr. Kennedy.
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This establishment, which often is housed in well-appointed edifices, is run by handsomely paid operatives and professional non-profit leaders who often earn significant six-figure salaries and benefits that put them firmly in the one percent.
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She was first taken to the NICU and ultimately transferred to Boston Children's Hospital, via a glass walkway called "the bridge," that both literally and figuratively connected the two edifices where my daughter's short life began and ended.
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But what it lacks in land mass, it makes up for in opulent, massive edifices that convey the country's wealth, draw in tourists from around the globe, and give the tiny nation more superlatives than a high school yearbook.
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With two huge building projects, Mr. Orban intends to change the face of Budapest — partly for economic reasons, to lure more tourists, and partly for political reasons, to restore key national edifices to their pre-World War II glory.
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The Chicago-based artist's books do represent abstract arguments concerning history and the acquisition of collective knowledge: he has essentially destroyed historical accounts and remade them, to say it is possible to construct new histories, new edifices of knowledge.
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As if they were outtakes from Cuaron's set, the photos from a 1970s magazine caught scenes of a woman in curlers climbing into a large American car, balloon sellers, and a lone skyscraper among a sea of block edifices.
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Once a thriving city of 21909,211, Wilkes-Barre was built by coal and manufacturing barons who erected stately homes and public edifices like the stunning Luzerne County Court House and the 14-story Luzerne National Bank Building in Public Square.
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The cone shape of "Conical Intersect" might even be said to have functioned like a symbolic lens looking down from the future Centre Georges Pompidou, through the past derelict cut-up edifices, and opening up onto the present Parisian street scene.
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By the time the Italians left in 1942, they had built edifices with off-white petrol stations the shape of aircraft and pastel villas the size of spaceships, leaving a remarkable legacy of Art Deco and Futurist architecture throughout the city.
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"Despite the destruction of several iconic edifices, the archaeological site of Palmyra retains a large part of its integrity and authenticity," reads a newly released rapid report from UNESCO of the 2000 year old site, after a visit from Sunday through Tuesday.
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Its edifices and landscapes aren't Second Life's only venues for boundless exploration: So customizable are Second Life avatars that a player could don a cleft chin and Armani-style suit by day and by night, hulking paws, green fur, and exaggerated, functioning genitalia.
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Erected between 1830 and 1930 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Friedrich August Stüler, Ernst Eberhard von Ihne and Alfred Messel, the most distinguished architects of their time, they are great, towering edifices which both evoke the Acropolis of Athens and maintain an identity of their own.
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The boomers were the last generation to come of age with some traditional edifices still standing, the old bourgeois norms and Christian(ish) religion and patriotic history, which gave them something powerful to wrestle with, to rework and react against and attempt to overthrow.
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Unlike the edifices dedicated to more recent or more beloved presidents, a visitor can stroll through the life of our nation's 31st chief executive without anyone else around, lending poignancy to Hoover's experience as the man widely blamed for failing to prevent the Great Depression.
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During my visit, the city was hosting two festivals: Le Sud, a weeklong world music festival, and Les Rencontres d'Arles, a major three-month photography festival that's celebrating its 49th year of installing exhibits in stores and restaurants and grand edifices all over the city.
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This description appears at the opening of Book Three of the novel, just after we meet Quasimodo the hunchback and Esmeralda the dancing girl, and it's an evocation of what makes Notre Dame great: Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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Mr. Heard said he had started to think about the loss and impact of war in 2013 after he got into a car accident and lost mobility, hindering his ability to carry out his work carving the fanciful wooden edifices he calls Bough Houses.
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Shipp's resolution and Christensen's bill are designed to transform what should be a sweeping, statewide correction of all of these racist edifices—the kind requested by tribal nations—into an endless series of individual battles, going high school by high school, county by county.
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Those living in Upper Manhattan and Harlem must contend with buildings and structures rising up from The Bronx; those on the Upper East Side and Midtown will be looking toward Queens; and those in the East Village down to Houston Street will be facing Brooklyn edifices.
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Reynolds has been teasing Deadpool 2 by posing in front of incongruous locations, his lackadaisical hero lounging outside beautiful edifices like the X-Men mansion and now Disneyland castle (per the terms of the merger, Disney also owns X-Men, which makes for some interesting possibilities).
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Support has come from the Saudi government; the royal family; Saudi charities; and Saudi-sponsored organizations including the World Muslim League, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth and the International Islamic Relief Organization, providing the hardware of impressive edifices and the software of preaching and teaching.
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The Modern Berlin Map, introduced by the journalist Matthew Tempest, explores both the "neo-Classical gargantuanism of the buildings of the Third Reich" (like Tempelhof airport) and more recent edifices that transform "architecture itself into a kind of mourning" (like the Daniel Liebskind-designed Jewish Museum).
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Here's a rowdy, self-aware, cranky verging on bilious boomer-rock epitaph written by Pete Townshend and sung by Roger Daltrey: "I don't care, I know you're going to hate this song," Daltrey sings as Townshend builds new versions of the Who's edifices of strum and riff.
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Princeton, N.J. Even if you didn't go to Princeton, a sense of nostalgia flares up while roaming the resplendent campus with its Gothic edifices and spires, its greens once crossed by illustrious names like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill (who both failed to graduate) and Michelle Obama (who did).
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So far, the cultural citadels of Los Angeles, a city still in its infancy by comparison, have mainly taken the form of gleaming new edifices like the Getty Center in Brentwood and the Broad, with Peter Zumthor's proposed addition to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in development.
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Located on the left side of the Vistula River in Warsaw's Targówek district, a working-class area boasting rows of Soviet-style housing blocks, the sprawling public park is challenging the conceptual edifices of sculpture by attaching it to practices that underlie forms of usership (rather than spectatorship).
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At $4 to $8 each, these small but elaborate edifices seem worthier than the run-of-the-mill pastries available at every urban corner deli and curbside coffee cart, enabling their artisans to cover the ever-increasing cost of basic ingredients, particularly butter, whose price hit a historic high last year.
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Growing up in a wealthy and glamorous New Jersey family with a father who built grand edifices for the diocese, Rush was far too smart, elegant, and sensitive for his own good, and by prepubescence had become a profound acidhead and addict too high on spiritual ideals to understand he was out of control.
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"We've been systematically excluded from the legal landscape, the legal conversation, and we're just now making some important inroads," she said in her office at the law review, which occupies Gannett House, a creamy 19th-century Greek Revival building that amid the law school's imposing brick and concrete edifices looks like a New England cottage.
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All government-owned airports will be offered to investors who have "the wherewithal, the know-how, the technology, the capacity, the ability, the finance to put up huge fantastic edifices as airports with everything including hotels, just the way you see them abroad," said Hadi Sirika, Nigeria's aviation minister, at a news conference in the capital of Abuja.
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After commissioning architects to design the monumental edifices in which their teams play — stadiums, arguably, are the new cathedrals, with throngs of ardent worshippers in ceremonial garb rushing to pay penance and offer praise to their individual and collective heroes — sports franchise owners are choosing to adorn these arenas with further evidence of patronage: art collections.
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"As I pondered these burnt and fallen ruins –– edifices that had been built specifically to test how much they could stand –– I was reminded of Albert Speer's notion of 'ruin value,' the idea that buildings should be designed to eventually fall into aesthetically pleasing ruins, demonstrating to future onlookers the might of previous generations," Kander writes.
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Ten & Taller begins with early 10-story skyscrapers including the 1874 Tribune Building by Richard Morris Hunt with its brick-bearing walls and the 1875 Western Union building by George Post with cast-iron columns, and culminates with massive edifices like the 28-floor 1899 Park Row Building by R. H. Robertson, which soared 20173 feet with a steel-frame skeleton.
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Suddenly, the Republicans were the wild reformists, coming with axes and dynamite for all the edifices of society and government that America had erected over the last 100 years, while the Democratic Party was the conservative party, which is to say: protective toward institutions, deferential toward established power, defensive around precedent, and deeply concerned that anything other than narrow tinkering at the margins represented a dangerous radicalism.
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There are edifices worthy of a good long look all along the route, but none more arresting than what you will spot looking out the window to your left as you shuttle from Crossroads to Power & Light: There, up on a hill, is the Moshe Safdie-designed Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, which opened in 2011 and which, depending upon your aesthetic sensibilities, you will find either sublime or terrifying.
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In Gigi Scaria's All About This Side, exhibition at Aicon gallery, the buildings become genuinely surprising because they are allegorized in myriad ways that reveal a history of varied uses for the idea of a dwelling place: surrealist structures, temples, edifices confected from minerals housed in natural rock, features of the landscape, repeated theoretical design templates that are ostensibly created for people though no humans are in evidence.
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It probably won't accomplish anything; it probably will just escalate an arms race that makes things worse for everyone; but it might make people feel a little better, and if there's anything that the last few decades of software development have taught us, it's that people, companies, and governments are way more into building a feelgood façade of security than the hard work and endless slog of building our edifices atop any kind of solid foundation.
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When the Americans had participated in previous rounds of talks in Geneva, the meetings took place at the Palace of Nations, one of the stolid lakeside edifices built in the first half of the 20th century that have housed the United Nations since it was formed after World War II. Those buildings symbolized a postwar order that tried to institutionalize human rights and the laws of war, an order associated with American leadership — or domination — amid the tensions of the Cold War.
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And, as it turns out, the investigation she has set up makes intuitive sense to both observers and detectives because they know it so well from TV. The Law & Order franchise has shaped Americans' understanding of the law to such an extent that the actual legal system can sometimes seem discomfitingly unreal, because it is so little like the version we know from television: the one where prosecutors are incorruptible crusaders for justice, defense attorneys are conscienceless sophists, and trials take place in gleaming edifices of dark wood and marble—and where, perhaps most crucially, the viewer's own belief in the defendant's guilt can allow them to cheer for all sorts of systemic injustices and dirty tricks, because that's how you have to play the game, sometimes, if you just know you have the right guy.
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