5,208 articles
St-Sylvestre
St-Sylvestre (Pleiades 167906) is the gazetteer entry for the Pont Romain, an arched stone bridge over the Duzon at Saint-Sylvestre, Ardeche, France; Roman or medieval in date, 13 m arch, Barrington Atlas 17 D4.
St. Francis Dam
The St. Francis Dam was a concrete dam near Los Angeles that collapsed in 1928, killing more than 450 people in the second deadliest US dam failure.
St. Mary-le-Bow
St. Mary-le-Bow is a Church of England parish church on Cheapside in the City of London, founded around 1080, whose Bow Bells define a true Cockney.
St. Mary's Church, Tallinn
St. Mary's Church in Tallinn, locally called Toomkirik or the Dome Church, is a Lutheran cathedral on Toompea Hill and the oldest church in mainland Estonia, consecrated in 1240.
St. Nicholas' Church, Berlin
St. Nicholas' Church (German: Nikolaikirche) in Berlin-Mitte, begun around 1230, is one of the city's oldest churches, destroyed in World War II and rebuilt by 1987 as a Stadtmuseum museum.
St. Paul's Chapel
St. Paul's Chapel is a Georgian-style Episcopal chapel at Broadway and Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan, built in 1766 and the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan.
St. Peter's Basilica
St. Peter's Basilica (Basilica di San Pietro) is the papal basilica in Vatican City, Rome, built between 1506 and 1626 over the tomb of Saint Peter.
St. Pierre Cathedral
St. Pierre Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Pierre) names several Saint Peter cathedrals: Geneva's 1160–1230 Protestant cathedral, Beauvais's unfinished 48.50 m-vault Gothic giant, Lisieux's first Norman Gothic cathedral, and Poitiers's Angevin Gothic cathedral.
St. Stephen's Basilica
St. Stephen's Basilica (Szent István-bazilika) is the largest Roman Catholic church in Budapest and a co-cathedral, built from 1851 to 1905 and named for Hungary's first Christian king.
St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom) is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Vienna and seat of its archbishop; its Gothic south tower, 136 meters tall, is Austria's tallest church tower.
St. Thomas Cathedral Basilica, Chennai
St. Thomas Cathedral Basilica, commonly called San Thome Basilica, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Santhome neighborhood of Chennai, India, built over the traditional tomb of the Apostle Thomas.
St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
St. Thomas Church (Thomaskirche) is a Lutheran church in Leipzig, Germany, where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as Thomaskantor from 1723 until his death in 1750.
St. Vitus Cathedral
St. Vitus Cathedral, also known as Katedrála svatého Víta, is the largest church in the Czech Republic, standing within Prague Castle as the coronation and burial site of Czech kings.
Stack effect
Stack effect, also known as chimney effect or natural draught, is the movement of air through buildings driven by temperature-based density differences between indoor and outdoor air.
Stad Ship Tunnel
The Stad Ship Tunnel (Stad skipstunnel) is a planned 1,700-meter ship tunnel through Norway's Stad Peninsula, approved in 2021 as the world's first full-scale ship tunnel.
Stadtbahn
Stadtbahn (German for "city railway") is urban rail transit in German-speaking countries, developed from tramways, with vehicles running in tunnels downtown and on street or regional tracks outside it.
Staircase
A staircase is a series of steps, usually with landings and handrails, built to let people move between the levels of a building, governed by building codes.
Staircase lock
A staircase lock is a set of canal locks built directly on top of one another, sharing gates so no pound separates them, allowing much steeper flights of locks.
Stairs
Stairs, also called stairways or flights of stairs, are a series of steps that permit passage between floors of a building, built since about 6000 BC.
Stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge
The Stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge, also called the Riverview Bridge, is a four-lane, toll-free cable-stayed bridge over the Fraser River between Surrey and New Westminster, British Columbia, opened in 2026.
Stalinist architecture
Stalinist architecture, also known as the Stalinist Empire style or socialist classicism, dominated Soviet building from the 1930s to the early 1950s, blending classical composition with rich ornament.
Stalinka
Stalinka (сталинка) is the colloquial name for Soviet apartment buildings built under Stalin, roughly 1935–1955: brick construction, high ceilings, spacious flats, elite and ordinary types, ended by Khrushchev's 1955 anti-excess decree.
Standard Building Code
The Standard Building Code was a model building code published by SBCCI of Birmingham, Alabama, and used across the southeastern United States until it was replaced by the International Building Code in 2000.
Standard Method of Measurement
The Standard Method of Measurement (SMM) is a British set of rules for measuring building work in bills of quantities, first issued in 1922 by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Standard step method
The standard step method is an iterative procedure that solves the one-dimensional energy equation step by step between cross sections to compute water surface profiles in open channels.
Standedge Tunnels
The Standedge Tunnels are four parallel tunnels beneath the Pennines between Marsden and Diggle, England, including the canal tunnel on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, opened in 1811 and the longest in Britain.
Standen
Standen is an Arts and Crafts country house at East Grinstead, West Sussex, built 1891–1894 by Philip Webb for James and Margaret Beale, furnished by Morris & Co., Grade I listed, and a National Trust property since 1972.
Stanford White
Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the New York firm McKim, Mead & White, known for Madison Square Garden, the Washington Square Arch, and Rosecliff.
Stari Most
Stari Most, also known as the Old Bridge of Mostar, is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman arch bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, destroyed in 1993 and reconstructed in 2004.
Starrucca Viaduct
The Starrucca Viaduct is a stone masonry railroad viaduct completed in 1848 for the New York and Erie Railroad at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, and still carrying freight today.