Is it not scandalous that an edifice that is used a few times a season for profit-making events is to receive priority in expenditures of public funds over a world-famous not-for-profit cultural center and tourist magnet that offers presentations every single night of every single year?
To judge from several recent and important Broadway openings, a play can be a vast and elaborate structure, an edifice that looks grand in some places, crumbling and near collapse in others.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Perhaps more than anything else, it is the statement implied by an edifice that looms over an entire cityscape.
A house where Leonard Bernstein, the composer, once lived is being replaced by an edifice that looks, from the front, like a conventional Beaux Arts mansion.
This opening scene conveys so much about the early Soviet Union as Bulgakov saw it: the State Food Store selling cheap horsemeat sausage, the middle-aged professional "gentleman" hanging on to his privileges in an edifice that has been turned over to a proletarian command which struggles to keep the boilers working and the galoshes from being stolen from the communal hallway.
Her book chronicles the utopian vision of the building's architect, Philip Hubert, who established the Chelsea Association, a housing coöperative for adventurous souls, and who built an edifice that encouraged class commingling.
Nowaday the players and opponents of the city's American football club are the stadium's sole tenants and only an uneasy conscience keeps the municipality from tearing down an edifice that was rebuilt in 1945 after Allied firebombs had destroyed the original track.
He knew a Peruvian architect, Luis Sifuentes, at Kahn & Jacobs, who in 1958 talked of an edifice that need two murals.
Switch to the Palace of Westminster and you're challenged by an edifice that says: "Stand back.
