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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 2000, the University of North Carolina system wanted a huge bond package ($3.1 billion as I recall) to finance a gigantic building spree. I closely examined the list of proposals and found ...

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 ...

The weekly color supplements that come with our black and white newspaper are perhaps more revealing than they intend to be about the distribution of wealth. One such supplement recently included, ...