Hello everybody out there in newspaper land. It’s time to play”Edifice Complex.” Now, here is your host, Mr. NimbyNatcatcher. Thank you, and welcome to “Edifice Complex,” the game where somebusiness ...

THINK FOR A MOMENT: What was it that caught your eye the last time you visited an art museum? The building’s pale limestone skin or an outdoor sculpture? The elegant lobby or the paintings on the ...

It's called the edifice complex, and it carries a curse: A high-flying company builds a beautiful new headquarters, then heartbreakingly loses altitude. Some wonder if Apple (AAPL), which is ...

Edifice complex. Two words that describe what some institutions do to prove they are doing something that warrants support, especially of the financial kind: They put up a building or two. Government, ...

Ever hear of the so-called "edifice complex"? It's adapted from the more famous Oedipus complex, in which sons fall in love with their mothers. In an edifice complex, a person falls in love with a ...

On Sunday, the Super Bowl will take place in a glittering, state-of-the-art football stadium in New Jersey. Undoubtedly, municipal development officials will look wistfully (and covetously) at the ...

Deyan Sudjic’s new book, The Edifice Complex, makes a spirited argument that architecture is not merely an art but a form of communication—or, more pointedly, a kind of propaganda. The beneficiaries ...

President-elect Barack Obama recently put forward a plan for the largest government infrastructure project in a half-century. The idea is to revive the economy and create jobs for America’s unemployed ...

Mayor Wellington Webb will soon be gone, but he won’t be forgotten. Not when he’s left his size-thirteen footprints all over this city. Webb’s name will live on at the $130 million Wellington E. Webb ...