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 ...

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 ...

While the planning police in Berkeley shun new construction and try to limit building heights to a meager two stories, the little city of Emeryville just keeps growing and growing. Which is what you'd ...

Sorry, Jon Stewart, You Can Believe That the Democrats Caved on the Shutdown How Soon Is Now for Jack Schlossberg? No, We’re Not Going to Use Taxpayer Money to ...

Thanks to his outstandingly written blog Joel on Software, Joel Spolsky is a popular software development guru. That makes a lot of sense. Spolsky is sometimes further perceived as an expert on the ...

The complex will be built closer to the Trail, and the old building will be demolished. "We're working with an architect right now," says producing artistic director Burton Wolfe, "but I can't tell ...

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 ...

Denver’s new Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building, by the Denver firms of David Owen Tryba Architects and RNL Design, is the latest monument to rise at the Civic Center — which, by the way, is ...