Watching the demolition project was a time for club members to reminisce about the past while looking forward to the time when a new edifice will be raised to house the MacArthur Boulevard club.
"Many of the most serious disappointments that attend those who build would be avoided," he later wrote, "if models were previously made of the edifices proposed to be raised.
Flow data forms the base on which much of the edifice of water management is raised.
They assemble in groups of three to five to plant crops, ship goods and raise edifices, compressing into a cheerful hour or two the wheeling and dealing that consumed the careers of 16th-century colonists in the Caribbean.
But another, less familiar issue was also raised: the museum's building, a three-year-old avant-garde edifice designed by the New York architect Stephen Holl.
They are the foundation upon which the edifice of North Korean cultural orthodoxy has been raised.
You can't raise an edifice in this city without raising hell.
As landlords have raised rents on Rivington Street and as new businesses and tenants have moved in, the rickety edifice that houses ABC No Rio, replete with murals, graffiti and a handmade metal entryway constructed out of old rebar and gear wheels, has stood out physically as well as culturally.
"Sing the names of the dead who brought us here, who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges, picked the cotton and the lettuce, built brick by brick the glittering edifices they would then keep clean and work inside of," she said.
"Say it plain, that many have died for this day./ Sing the names of the dead who brought us here …" introduces the most poignant passage in the piece, invoking those "who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges,/ picked the cotton and the lettuce, built,/ brick by brick, the glittering edifices/ they would then keep clean and work inside of".
In 1931, one writer described "the money-eating" St. John the Divine as "that hungry edifice which swallows a million dollars as a hippo engulfs a peanut". It has been erected as seasons and epochs have allowed: as money was available, the work of building proceeded; as money ran out, it stopped; and as more money was raised it started up again.
