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 ...

The world appears to be suffering from a severe case of “Edifice Complex.” One of the last acts of Jesus in his itinerant ministry was the chasing of the moneychangers from the Church (nominally known ...

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, ...

The late Gov. Nelson Rockefeller used to be accused of having an “Edifice Complex.” He rebuilt Albany as well as the State University system. He loved to build things at great cost to the taxpayers ...

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 ...

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 ...