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• a  of or pertaining to construction or architecture

• The architectonic American swimsuits with built-in shape were to beachwear what postwar fancy-finned luxury cars were to automotive design.
• Wisp-haired, preoccupied Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle chose a deft, architectonic watercolor of The Rockies by California's Dong Kingman.
• Their complaint: "Laden with terms like 'architectonic,' 'Zeitgeist' and 'dichotomous,' the literary magazines seem today on the verge of doing away with literature, not with .

• tectonic

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• Pier Giorgio Di Cicco in blogTO
  Extended to concepts of beauty in the city, Di Cicco writes "the beautiful is not landscape, or cityscape or architectonic; the beautiful is what people have built in the spaces between each other - a reciprocity, an exchange of ideals and a shared...
• Ed Rendell in Washington Post
  Throughout the collection, the five-petal flower in architectonic shape appears as both jewelled accessories and crafted fabric origami within the fabric. What's with the flowers? I was inspired by the Rafflesia flower when I went to Kota Kinabalu.... Datuk Bernard Chandran http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Chandran&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHsaLmAv2AFf8SjXxtw2IEv0pXgCA The Sun Daily http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm%3Fid%3D36474&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH_mDi2cJ5y8p4p77CTPMpM6T9iAg Aug 2, 2009 5149 7507 architectural There are a lot of projects in every state where the architectural design has been done, where literally they're ready to tap into the ground and begin construction," said Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.