"demolish and replace" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it when referring to replacing an old or damaged structure with a new one. For example, "The city decided to demolish and replace the old bridge."
There are proposals to demolish and replace it with a modern market.
At long last, work has begun to demolish and replace the St James Centre, which takes Brutalism up a few notches and turns it into barbarism.
Sam Waterston calls the General Theological Seminary's Ninth Avenue building, the one it has proposed to demolish and replace with a 17-story mixed-use structure, "ugly, dilapidated, nonhistoric".
Last month, after years of planning, the state began work to demolish and replace the viaduct, a $127 million undertaking that is scheduled to last into the spring of 2008, according to Eileen Peters, a spokeswoman for the State Transportation Department's Long Island regional office.
Mr. Parker is the only tenant of a set of buildings that the church bought at the corner of 128th Street in February, and that it plans to demolish and replace with a four-story chapel that will house four congregations, and activities ranging from Sunday school to priesthood society meetings.
This cult swiftly became orthodoxy; and has proved remarkably tenacious, despite the heroic efforts of Marx and others, to demolish and replace it with an altogether more dogmatic faith; the working out and exhaustion of which we have witnessed in our lifetime.
The president, John G. Peters, originally wanted to demolish Cole Hall and replace it with a new building and a memorial.
It was demolished and replaced with a 20-by-80-foot 20-by-80-foot 20-by-80-foot 20-by-80-foot
Six or seven years ago, the garage was demolished and replaced by an apartment building.
Three antiquated buildings will be demolished and replaced with a new patient pavilion on Lenox Avenue.
Many of the houses in the area are purchased, demolished and replaced with luxury custom homes.
