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Example sentences for: edifice

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The center of town is a maze of narrow streets filled with historic buildings, all of which fall under the shadow of the 15th-century St. Bavokerk, an enormous Gothic edifice which boasts one of the finest organs in Europe installed in 1735.
A short walk west along the waterfront brings you to the remains of the Dominican Monastery of Áyios Pétros (St. Peter), which is in the process of renovation, and beyond that is the Historical Museum of Crete, housed in a remarkable building — part Venetian mansion and part modern glass edifice.
Just down the hill, off Rua Galeria near the river, is the beautiful 16th-century Igreja da Misericórdia (Church of Mercy), a spectacular Renaissance edifice with a carved portico.
Critics anoint Los Angeles architect Frank Gehry's sprawling, postmodern titanium-and-stone edifice "one of the greatest buildings of the twentieth century" (Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker ). (Click here for a photo.)
Also worth a visit is the beautiful Santa Barbara County Courthouse — a magnificent Spanish-Moorish–style edifice dating from 1927.