The village's tree-lined streets fan out from the Long Island Rail Road station, a low-slung concrete-block edifice that is an incongruous note in this quaint area.
Elsewhere, "interactive" montage sequences in which you hammer a button to mine or assemble things are a pale shadow of the satisfaction that is raising a mighty edifice, block by block, over a verdant cuboid world.
For Tarn, making games "scratches all the same itches" as math: "At the end of a math problem, you have a paper and maybe you publish it, and the paper can be a building block for the edifice of mathematics, but to me that's not so important.
The first red sandstone blocks of this edifice were laid around the time Mahler completed his score in 1910.
From the mess Sarah walked with friends back to the Wilson Security accommodation block, a brutal three-storey edifice clad in aluminium, set at a remove from the detention compound and ringed by a 12-foot wire fence topped with CCTV cameras.
Wu Deshun lives next to a warehouse off Guanghua Lu in what can best be described as a hovel, a cinder block, one-story, falling-apart edifice in the shadow of the almost-completed CCTV headquarters.
Lin has a roomy corner office on the fourth floor of the World Bank headquarters, a thirteen-story edifice a few blocks from the White House.
If you look you can find one on almost every block, from the great stone edifices downtown to simple clapboard or fibro constructions in the suburbs.
"Start pulling out those very building blocks on which the entire edifice is built, and what is China left with?" Minzner asked.
In 2002, Angell lamented the decline of the virtues that had carried the Yankees through their string of four championships in five years: Patience, stout pitching, and a strong defense have been the cinder blocks of the splendid Yankees edifice, but they were rarely in evidence this time around.
Tea, I realized, doesn't work like coffee or wine, where flavor is an edifice built from blocks of compounds, like a cathedral, the more complex the more impressive.
