• Edifices citywide are dotted with small white square signs alerting residents that their homes are patrolled by police.

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  • The Incas and Mayans in the distant past created stone cultures with edifices, mammoth monuments, and pyramids, and they remain until now.

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  • In the years since, all the content owners, device makers, carriers, and software providers have assembled into several large edifices insurmountable for normal people.

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  • It was during this time that he wrote, Building Dwelling Thinking, in which he argued that rebuilding Germany would entail much more than the mere construction of edifices.

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  • Wright's Prairie Homes contrasted the grand edifices of the Chicago School with their modest low-slung horizon lines, flat roofs, overhanging eaves, unadorned open spaces and natural materials that mirrored the Midwestern landscape.

    BBC: The infamous architecture of Chicago

  • And we, as consumers, face these sheer walls, smooth as glass, edifices of obsidian, crystal, and silver that reach up to the sky, blocking all but a tiny patch of light.

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  • That memorial almost never came to be, or at least not in its current location nestled between the edifices that epitomized the two previous centuries: the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.

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  • At the same time, they built an entirely new building behind the palace, and the hotel occupies both edifices, which are connected both by an underground passage and a private walled park-like plaza.

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  • And the edifices are not at all human.

    NEWYORKER: Show The Monster

  • "We build our new technology edifices on the rubble of older technology, " says Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley technology forecaster who relishes telling the story of Disney's ill-fated house of the future and other now neglected technologies.

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  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: German recreation

  • More than 1, 500 historic buildings dot the downtown area, and because the city was built atop a drained lake bed, some edifices , like the gravity-defying Ex-Teresa museum, a former 17th-century convent, are teetering like there is no tomorrow.

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  • In his army days he had bought a house in Oxfordshire, and preferred it to the edifices he eventually inherited in 1975 as duke of Norfolk, particularly Arundel Castle in Sussex, the ducal seat, nearly 1, 000 years old, brimming with history, but mostly comfortless.

    ECONOMIST: Duke of Norfolk

  • When you look at the banking environment, the opinions floating around the mess and financial gaffes, and the political will to reform, this startup and more like these can become the anchors and alternatives to the slippery financial edifices that we inherited and are funding.

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  • These he transferred in light pencil onto large sheets of Arches 300-pound hot-press paper, some of them as much as six feet in length, at which point Zega set to work painting the reconstructed edifices in intense watercolor hues, taking as long as a month on each.

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