To the elegant edifices that have sold their infrastructured souls to the god Commerce, now add water tanks.

Church buildings in 18th-century America varied greatly, from the plain, modest buildings in newly settled rural areas to elegant edifices in the prosperous cities on the eastern seaboard.

But only Cartagena has hundreds of these elegant edifices in widely varying states of repair, from roofless shells to lovingly restored wonders.

Those few that exist are beautiful, elegant edifices characterized by clean, simple architecture and furnishings.

The elegant mental edifice seemed to hover between them.

Water fountains, paved promenades and richly decorated walls - depicting the traditional Tamil culture adorn this elegant edifice.

In 1842 the house was described as an elegant modern edifice with extensive shrubberies and greenhouses and a beautiful Gothic conservatory.

It upset me that these elegant mansionlike edifices should be left to molder.

Rather than building huge monuments unlike his predecessors, Shah Jahan built elegant edifices.

This elegant edifice which has helped to beautify the ancient city of Umuahia was dedicated on December 8, 2000.