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Sanitation of the Indus Valley Civilisation
The sanitation of the Indus Valley Civilisation, also called Harappan sanitation, was a Bronze Age urban drainage system built of burnt brick from roughly 2600 to 1900 BC.
Sankey Viaduct
The Sankey Viaduct, known locally as the Nine Arches, is a nine-arched brick and sandstone railway viaduct built by George Stephenson in 1830 near Earlestown, England.
Sanmenxia Dam (三门峡大坝)
The Sanmenxia Dam (三门峡大坝), also called Sanmenxia Hydropower Station, is the first large dam on the Yellow River's main stem, built in Henan Province from 1957 and completed in 1960.
Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries in Korea
Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries in Korea (산사): UNESCO World Heritage serial property inscribed 2018, seven temples (Tongdosa, Buseoksa, Bongjeongsa, Beopjusa, Magoksa, Seonamsa, Daeheungsa) founded 7th–9th centuries, madang courtyard layout, criterion (iii).
Sanssouci
Sanssouci, or Schloss Sanssouci, is the Rococo summer palace of Frederick the Great in Potsdam, Germany, built 1745–1747 above terraced vineyards; the name means "without worry."
Sant Pere de Rodes
Sant Pere de Rodes is a former Benedictine monastery above El Port de la Selva in Catalonia, Spain, known for its Romanesque church consecrated in 1022.
Santa Croce, Florence
Santa Croce is the principal Franciscan church of Florence, Italy, begun in the 13th century and known for Giotto frescoes and the tombs of Michelangelo, Galileo, and Machiavelli.
Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona
Santa Maria del Mar is a Catalan Gothic church in Barcelona's Ribera district, built between 1329 and 1383 and often called the finest example of that tradition.
Santa Maria delle Vigne
Santa Maria delle Vigne is a basilica in central Genoa, Italy, considered the city's oldest Marian shrine, with a Romanesque bell tower and 17th-century Baroque interior.
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, the Frari, is Venice's great Franciscan Gothic brick church in San Polo, 102 m long, consecrated 1492, holding Titian's Assunta and Pesaro Altarpiece, Bellini's triptych, Donatello's St John, and the tombs of Titian, Canova, and Monteverdi.
Santa María la Blanca, Toledo
Santa María la Blanca is a former synagogue in the old Jewish quarter of Toledo, Spain, built around 1180 and converted into a church in the early 1400s.
Santa Maria Novella
Santa Maria Novella is a Dominican basilica in Florence, begun in the late 13th century and fronted by a Renaissance facade designed by Leon Battista Alberti.
Santes Creus
Santes Creus is a former Cistercian monastery in Aiguamúrcia, Catalonia, founded in 1160 and holding the royal tombs of Peter the Great and James II.
Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava Valls, born 1951, is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, and sculptor known for the Alamillo Bridge in Seville and the Oculus in New York.
Santiago de Compostela Cathedral
Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, or Catedral de Santiago de Compostela, is a Catholic cathedral in Galicia, Spain, built over the reputed tomb of Saint James.
Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey
Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain, best known for its two-storey Romanesque cloister with 64 carved capitals.
Santo Spirito in Sassia
Santo Spirito in Sassia is a historic hospital complex in Rome's Borgo district, re-founded by Pope Innocent III in 1198, with origins in a Saxon pilgrim hospice of 727.
São Francisco River Integration Project
The São Francisco River Integration Project (Projeto de Integração do Rio São Francisco) is a Brazilian inter-basin water transfer supplying semi-arid Northeast states, intended to reach 12 million people.
São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport
São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, also known as Guarulhos Airport or Cumbica, is Brazil's largest airport, opening in 1985 and handling 43.6 million passengers in 2024.
Sapperton Canal Tunnel
The Sapperton Canal Tunnel is a 3,490 m canal tunnel on the Thames & Severn Canal in Gloucestershire, England, opened in 1789 as the longest canal tunnel in the United Kingdom.
Sarah Mildred Long Bridge
The Sarah Mildred Long Bridge is a double-deck vertical-lift bridge carrying US Route 1 Bypass and rail across the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine.
Sarangapani Temple
Sarangapani Temple (சாரங்கபாணி சுவாமி கோயில்), also called Thirukudanthai, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India, and one of the 108 Divya Desams.
Sarcelles (housing estate)
The Sarcelles housing estate, grand ensemble de Sarcelles-Lochères, is a postwar development of about 12,368 dwellings north of Paris, built between 1954 and 1974 and regarded as France's first grand ensemble.
Sardar Sarovar Dam (સરદાર સરોવર ડેમ)
The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a 163 m high concrete gravity dam on the Narmada river in Gujarat, India, part of a project supplying irrigation, drinking water, and power.
Sardoba Reservoir
The Sardoba Reservoir is an off-channel irrigation reservoir in Sirdaryo region, Uzbekistan, built from 2010 to 2017, whose dam failed on 1 May 2020, flooding both Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
SAS Crown
SAS Crown is a luxury residential tower complex by SAS Infra in Kokapet, Hyderabad, whose 235-meter main tower topped out in October 2024 as South India's tallest building.
SAS iTower
SAS iTower is a mixed-use commercial skyscraper at Nanakramguda in Hyderabad's Gachibowli IT corridor, developed by SAS Infra, with a 171-meter lead tower of 37 storeys designed by Aedas.
Sasago Tunnel ceiling collapse
The Sasago Tunnel ceiling collapse killed nine people on 2 December 2012, when concrete ceiling panels fell onto the Chūō Expressway tunnel in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.
Sasanian defense lines
The Sasanian defense lines were linear walls, canals, and fortifications built by the Sasanian Empire of Iran (224–651) against nomads from the north and Arab tribes.
Sash window
A sash window, also known as a double-hung window, has vertically sliding panels counterbalanced by weights, a defining feature of British architecture since the late 17th century.