edifice

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The threat to the hotel has prompted a Tunisian conservation group, Edifices et Memoires, to campaign for its preservation, highlighting its architectural pedigree.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2019

Edifices of counterpoint materialize around her; verses stretch and detour toward incantations.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2015

Edifices in which strength and stability alone are sought, and in designing which only utilitarian considerations have been followed, are properly works of engineering.

From A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)

I shouldn't wonder," said a third, "if he were one of the new messengers at the Office of Popular Edifices.

From Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire by Jenkins, Edward

Take such a book as Letarouilly's Edifices de Rome Moderne.

From The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 02, February 1895. Byzantine-Romanesque Doorways in Southern Italy by Various