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Millennium Bridge, London
The Millennium Bridge, officially the London Millennium Footbridge, is a pedestrian suspension bridge across the Thames in London, nicknamed the "wobbly bridge" after opening in 2000.
Millennium Tower (San Francisco)
Millennium Tower, nicknamed the Leaning Tower of San Francisco, is a 58-story luxury residential skyscraper at 301 Mission Street, completed in 2009 and stabilized after sinking about 18 inches.
Millicent (tunnel boring machine)
Millicent was a tunnel boring machine that dug the first 5 km section of London's Thames Tideway Tunnel from Battersea to Fulham between 2018 and 2019.
Milo E. Riverso
Milo E. Riverso is an American civil engineer and construction executive, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026, who led STV Group and the New York City School Construction Authority.
Milton Brumer
Milton Brumer (1902–1999) was an American civil engineer who served as chief engineer and later president of Ammann & Whitney, responsible for major suspension bridges including the Walt Whitman and Throgs Neck.
Mimar Sinan
Mimar Sinan, also known as Koca Mimar Sinan Agha, was chief architect of the Ottoman Empire for nearly half a century, serving Süleyman the Magnificent, Selim II, and Murad III.
Minaret
A minaret (Arabic manāra, منارة) is a tower, usually attached to a mosque, from which the muezzin summons Muslims to prayer five times a day.
Minneapolis Skyway System
The Minneapolis Skyway System, also called the Minneapolis Skyway, is a network of enclosed pedestrian bridges and tunnels linking about 80 blocks and 150 downtown Minneapolis buildings.
Minneriya Tank
Minneriya Tank, also called Minneriya lake, is an ancient irrigation reservoir in Polonnaruwa District, Sri Lanka, built during King Mahasen's reign and still serving paddy irrigation.
Minowa Dam (美和ダム)
Minowa Dam (美和ダム) is a 72 m high concrete gravity dam on the Sawa River, a Tenryū River tributary, in Minowa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, serving flood control and water supply.
Mir mine
The Mir mine, or Mirny Mine, is a diamond mine in Mirny, Yakutia, Russia, worked from 1957 in one of the world's largest open pits.
Mireuksa
Mireuksa (미륵사) was a large Buddhist monastery at Iksan in southwestern Korea, founded during the 7th-century reign of Baekje King Mu and now preserved as a temple site.
Mishima Skywalk
Mishima Skywalk (三島スカイウォーク), officially Hakone Seiroku Mishima Suspension Bridge, is a 400 m pedestrian suspension bridge in Mishima, Shizuoka, opened 2015, viewing Mt. Fuji and Suruga Bay; Japan's longest until 2025.
Mission Bhagiratha (మిషన్ భగీరథ)
Mission Bhagiratha (మిషన్ భగీరథ) is the drinking water program of Telangana, India, supplying treated river and reservoir water through an integrated pipeline grid to households.
Mission Kakatiya
Mission Kakatiya (Mana Ooru – Mana Cheruvu) is a Telangana government program launched in 2015 to restore about 46,531 minor irrigation tanks, named after the Kakatiya dynasty.
Mission San Francisco de Asís
Mission San Francisco de Asís, commonly known as Mission Dolores, is a Spanish Colonial mission church in San Francisco founded in 1776 as the sixth California mission.
Mission San Juan Capistrano
Mission San Juan Capistrano is a Spanish mission in Orange County, California, founded by Father Junípero Serra in 1776 as the seventh of 21 Alta California missions.
Mississippi River and Tributaries Project
The Mississippi River and Tributaries Project is a flood control and navigation program for the lower Mississippi River, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1928.
Mississippi Valley Division
The Mississippi Valley Division is a US Army Corps of Engineers regional command managing water resources, navigation, and flood control across the Mississippi River Valley in 12 states.
Mitchell Joachim
Mitchell Joachim (born 1972) is an American architect and urban designer who co-founded the nonprofit Terreform ONE in New York City in 2006 and teaches at NYU.
Mittelland Canal
The Mittelland Canal, also called the Midland Canal, is Germany's longest artificial inland waterway, a 321 km east-west shipping route opened in 1938 linking the Rhine and Elbe.
Moat
A moat is a deep, wide ditch dug around a castle, fortress, or fortified town, dry or filled with water, to make direct attack on its walls more difficult.
Mobile home
A mobile home, also known as a trailer home or house trailer, is a factory-built dwelling on a permanent chassis; since 1976 US homes of the type are called manufactured homes.
Modena Cathedral
Modena Cathedral (Duomo di Modena) is a 12th-century Romanesque cathedral in Modena, Italy, begun in 1099 by Lanfranco and decorated by Wiligelmo, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
Modern aqueducts of Europe
Modern aqueducts of Europe are complex water-moving systems composed of pipes and canals, which historians studied in cities like Naples and Venice between 1800 and 1910.
Modern architecture
Modern architecture is the family of movements that arose from the late 19th century onward, breaking with historical styles in favor of steel, concrete, glass, and functional design.
Modified bitumen roofing
Modified bitumen roofing (mod-bit) is a low-slope roofing system of polymer-modified asphalt sheets laid in multiple plies, typically lasting 20 to 25 years, installed by torch, adhesive, or self-adhered methods.
Modular building
A modular building, also called Permanent Modular Construction, is a permanent or temporary structure assembled on site from factory-built modules, often cutting schedules by about 42%.
Modular construction
Modular construction is a building method in which factory-made three-dimensional modules are assembled on-site into finished structures, faster and with less waste than site building.
MOF-801 water harvester
The MOF-801 water harvester is a solar-powered device that extracts drinkable water from desert air as dry as 10% humidity, first demonstrated in Tempe, Arizona, in 2017.