build something around something

"What you have here is a political project built around a book."

The one church in the community was built around the end of the 19th century.

The house was built in 1722 around an even earlier one.

They cannot break through the wall she has built around her.

All our training has been built around support from your forces.

The house seems most likely to have been built around 1750.

Someone else took it up, more certainly and the sound built around the table.

The building that came to house the church was built around 1832.

In addition to an older keep, another one was built around the same time.

The first school was built around 1870 and served the community for a long time.