We ran into old friends at the security checkpoint; tried out the new, shiny food stands at the modern Stadium; and were glad to see that Monument Park and other vestiges of the old edifice were still extant, even though some features were in different places and seemed, as in the case of Monument Park, squeezed in and lacking their former grace.
It's all about smashing the old edifice, the monolith of rock and roll".
The original keeper's quarters, then referred to as a "dilapidated old edifice", was replaced in 1879.
Some of the oldest edifices in the city built during this period are, Jogeshwari Caves (between 520 to 525), Elephanta Caves (between the sixth to seventh century), Walkeshwar Temple (10th century), and Banganga Tank (12th century).
It was constructed from a similar type of buttery stone to give the sense of visual continuity with the rest of the – much older – edifice.
Murphy's expansive history includes not only the Spanish Inquisition but its 700-year-old edifice, and shows how the mind-set and machinery of the Inquisition later surfaced in Stalin's Russia, Argentina's military junta and 21st-century America.
In "God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World" Mr. Murphy functions much like that guide, offering readers a tour of the Inquisition's nearly 700-year-old edifice.
Other features of the precinct included a broad road flanked with votive offerings and the precinct of Artemis, with three temples superimposed on one another, perhaps the oldest edifice of pre-Hellenic times.
It was probably impossible to stage anything muted in the Grand Palace, a massive, 162-year-old edifice whose halls were restored and thoroughly gilded at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars during Mr. Yeltsin's tenure.
Perched at the highest point in town, its chapel is a century-old edifice of granite and stained glass where billionaire moguls and Wall Street financiers worship alongside hairdressers and immigrant cooks.
