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 ...

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 ...

The Edifice Complex How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World By Deyan Sudjic 403 pages. Penguin Press. $27.95. The pyramids, Versailles, the Taj Mahal, the Kremlin, the World Trade Center: it's ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The Kennedy Center will be closed for renovations in July, and all of Washington’s culture vultures are in a tizzy. Thousands of self-styled ...

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 ...

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 ...