A Building (n.) is what the architect calls the drawing once other men have carried it.
A Building (n.) outlives the reason it went up, and ends up used by strangers for something else entirely.
A Building (n.) is a decision that everyone afterwards has to live inside.
Building (n.) is not the same as creation — create with the heart; build with the mind.
Building a house (n.) is like couples counselling in which every unresolved argument gets poured in concrete.
Building a house (n.) ends with the builder driving away and you living with every corner you agreed to cut.
Building a house (n.) is choosing which of your compromises you will look at every morning for the rest of your life.
Building a house (n.) is unwise — Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
A Castle (n.) is a house whose architecture is an argument with the neighbours.
A Castle (n.) is what fear looks like once it has a budget.
A Castle (n.) was built to keep people out and now charges them to come in.
A Castle (n.) is an above-ground dungeon.
The Empire State Building (n.) is a queue with an observation deck at the end of it
The Empire State Building (n.) is a middle finger rising tauntingly out of the pulsing fist that was 20th century America
The Empire State Building (n.) is a vertical syringe, shooting the atmosphere up with American-style capitalism