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Architecture of cathedrals and great churches
The architecture of cathedrals and great churches, also called cathedral architecture, is the tradition of monumental Christian church building from the Roman basilica through Gothic styles.
Architecture of Chicago
The architecture of Chicago is the body of buildings and planning traditions that arose after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, pioneered the steel-frame skyscraper, the Prairie School, and City Beautiful planning.
Architecture of India
The architecture of India spans ancient Buddhist stupas, Hindu temples classified as Nagara, Dravida, and Vesara, Indo-Islamic and Mughal building, and modernist work after independence in 1947.
Architecture of the Philippines
The Architecture of the Philippines, or Philippine Architecture, is the building traditions of the archipelago, from the bahay kubo and bahay na bato to American colonial and modernist works.
Architrave
An architrave is the lowest horizontal member of a classical entablature, resting on column capitals; the word also names the molding around a door or window.
Arcology
Arcology is an urban design concept fusing architecture with ecology, coined by architect Paolo Soleri in the 1960s and tested at Arcosanti in Arizona from 1970.
Arcosanti
Arcosanti is an experimental micro-city and prototype arcology on a mesa about 70 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona, begun in 1970 by the architect Paolo Soleri and continuously inhabited since.
Arena
An arena is a building with a central area for sports, entertainment, or public events, surrounded by spectator seats; the word also names the central space itself.
Arena de São Paulo
Arena de São Paulo, also known as Arena Corinthians or Neo Química Arena, is Corinthians' football stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, which opened the 2014 World Cup.
Arena Națională
Arena Națională, also known as Lia Manoliu Arena, is Romania's national football stadium in Bucharest, built on the site of the old national stadium and opened in 2011 with about 55,000 seats.
Argo Tunnel
Argo Tunnel, renamed Cloudflare Tunnel, is a Cloudflare product introduced in 2018 that lets servers connect only through Cloudflare, using outbound encrypted connections that remove the need for open firewall ports or public IP addresses.
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, also called the Custis-Lee Mansion, is the 1802-1818 Greek Revival home of George Washington Parke Custis and Robert E. Lee inside Arlington National Cemetery, seized in 1864 and designated a national memorial to Lee in 1955.
Arlington Memorial Bridge
Arlington Memorial Bridge is a neoclassical bridge spanning the Potomac River between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, opened in 1932 as a Civil War reunification memorial.
Armijska Ratna Komanda D-0
Armijska Ratna Komanda D-0, known as ARK D-0 or Tito's Bunker, is a secret Cold War nuclear bunker near Konjic, Bosnia, built between 1953 and 1979.
Ars Electronica Center
The Ars Electronica Center, known as the "Museum of the Future", is a media art and technology museum in Linz, Austria, opened in 1996 and expanded in 2009.
Arsenic contamination of groundwater
Arsenic contamination of groundwater is the presence of naturally occurring or human-introduced arsenic in aquifers above drinking-water safety limits, affecting about 140 million people worldwide.
Arsenic removal
Arsenic removal covers water treatment processes that lower arsenic in drinking water to a safe level, usually the WHO and US standard of 10 µg/L.
Arsham Amirikian
Arsham Amirikian was a civil and structural engineer who served as head designing engineer of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks and designed Cold War protective structures.
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) is a multilingual thesaurus of generic art, architecture, and heritage concepts, maintained by the Getty Research Institute and published as free linked open data.
Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge
The Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge is the only rail freight gateway into Staten Island from the national network, handling modern double-stack trains after its 2007 reopening.
Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge
The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, also known as the Ravenel Bridge and Cooper River Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, opened in 2005.
Artus Court
Artus Court (Artushof, Dwór Artusa) is a medieval merchant-brotherhood hall at Długi Targ in Gdańsk, Poland. Built from 1477 to 1481, it is the only Baltic Arthurian court to survive.
Arunachalesvara Temple
Arunachalesvara Temple, also called Annamalaiyar Temple, is a large Hindu temple to Shiva at the foot of Arunachala hill in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, covering about 25 acres.
Arundel Castle
Arundel Castle, also known as Castle of Arundel, is a castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England, built in the 11th century by Roger de Montgomery.
Arup
Arup is an independent, multinational engineering and design consultancy headquartered in London. Founded by Ove Arup in 1946, it engineered the Sydney Opera House and the Centre Pompidou.
Arup Group
Arup Group, formally Ove Arup & Partners, is a British multinational engineering and consulting firm founded in 1946, known for the Sydney Opera House and Centre Pompidou.
As-built survey
An as-built survey, also called a record or as-constructed survey, records a structure's real position, elevation, and dimensions as built, typically by a licensed surveyor.
Asante Traditional Buildings
Asante Traditional Buildings: group of ten earthen shrine houses near Kumasi, Ghana, last survivors of Asante Kingdom architecture; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980, criterion (v), wattle-and-daub with Adinkra bas-reliefs.
ASCE 41
ASCE 41, titled Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Buildings, is an American Society of Civil Engineers standard for evaluating and strengthening existing buildings to withstand earthquakes.
Ashford Castle
Ashford Castle is a five-star castle hotel in Cong, County Mayo, Ireland, dating from 1228 and a Guinness family seat before becoming a hotel in 1939.