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Sydney Town Hall
Sydney Town Hall is the sandstone seat of the City of Sydney on George Street, built between 1869 and 1889 and home to a famous grand organ.
Sydney Water
Sydney Water, formally the Sydney Water Corporation, is the NSW government-owned utility supplying drinking water and wastewater services to Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, and the Illawarra.
Synagogue
A synagogue, also called Beit Knesset, is a Jewish house of worship, study, and assembly, central to Jewish communal life since the Jerusalem Temple's destruction in 70 CE.
Syon House
Syon House is a Grade I listed country house in Brentford, London, built on the site of Syon Abbey and the London residence of the Dukes of Northumberland.
Széchenyi Chain Bridge
The Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Lánchíd, Széchenyi Lánchíd) is a suspension bridge linking Buda and Pest across the Danube in Budapest, opened in 1849 as Hungary's first permanent Danube crossing.
T-Mobile Arena
T-Mobile Arena, also known as Las Vegas Arena, is a 20,000-seat multipurpose indoor arena on the Las Vegas Strip, opened in 2016 and home to the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights.
Ta Prohm (ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម)
Ta Prohm (ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម), originally named Rajavihara, is a Buddhist temple at Angkor, Cambodia, consecrated by King Jayavarman VII in 1186 and known for huge tree roots gripping its ruins.
Table Rock Lake
Table Rock Lake is a reservoir on the White River in southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas, formed in 1958 by Table Rock Dam near Branson, Missouri.
Tabqa Dam (سد الطبقة)
The Tabqa Dam (سد الطبقة), also called the Al-Thawra Dam or Euphrates Dam, is an earth-fill dam on the Euphrates River in Raqqa Governorate, Syria, built 1968–1973 with Soviet assistance.
Tacoma Dome
The Tacoma Dome is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Tacoma, Washington, opened in 1983 and among the largest wood-domed structures in the world, seating up to about 21,000.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a pair of suspension bridges across Puget Sound near Tacoma, Washington, including the 1940 span that collapsed four months after opening.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)
The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed Galloping Gertie, was a suspension bridge across Puget Sound in Washington State that opened in July 1940 and collapsed in a windstorm four months later.
Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄)
Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄) is a Japanese self-taught architect, born in Osaka in 1941, whose exposed concrete buildings shaped by light and geometry won him the 1995 Pritzker Prize.
Taga Castle
Taga Castle (多賀城, Taga-jō) was a fortified government seat in what is now Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, built in 724 as the capital of Mutsu Province and military headquarters of the northeast.
Taikoo Shing
Taikoo Shing (太古城, "Swire City") is a large private residential estate in Quarry Bay on Hong Kong Island, built by Swire Properties on the former Taikoo Dockyard site.
Tailings dam
A tailings dam, or tailings pond dam, is an embankment retaining mine tailings, the waste left after mineral extraction, usually as part of a tailings storage facility.
Tainan Shan-Shang Garden and Old Waterworks Museum
Tainan Shan-Shang Garden and Old Waterworks Museum (臺南山上花園水道博物館), in Shanshang District, Tainan, is a museum opened in 2019 from the former Tainan Waterway, a 1912-1922 Japanese-era waterworks designated a national monument in 2005.
Taipei 101
Taipei 101, formerly the Taipei Financial Center, is a 101-story, 508 m mixed-use skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan, that was the world's tallest building from its 2004 opening until 2010.
Taj Mahal (ताज महल)
The Taj Mahal (ताज महल) is an ivory-white marble mausoleum in Agra, India, built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Taj Mahal Palace Hotel
The Taj Mahal Palace is a five-star heritage hotel at Apollo Bunder in Mumbai, opened in 1903 by Jamsetji Tata and regarded as the founder of India's hotel industry.
Takaharu Tezuka
Takaharu Tezuka (手塚貴晴, born 1964) is a Japanese architect who founded Tokyo's Tezuka Architects with his wife Yui in 1994, best known for Fuji Kindergarten, the 2007 oval school whose entire roof is a playground.
Taking off (quantity surveying)
Taking off, also called quantity takeoff, is the quantity surveying process of measuring materials and work needed for a construction project from drawings or models.
Taliesin (studio)
Taliesin, also known as Taliesin East, is the home, studio, and estate that Frank Lloyd Wright began in 1911 near Spring Green, Wisconsin, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2019.
Taliesin West
Taliesin West is Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home, studio, and architectural school in Scottsdale, Arizona, established in 1937 and built with his apprentices. It is a World Heritage site and National Historic Landmark.
Talud-tablero
Talud-tablero is a Mesoamerican architectural profile in which a sloping talud supports a framed vertical tablero panel, alternating in tiers on pyramids and platforms and most closely identified with Teotihuacan.
Tamagawa Aqueduct
The Tamagawa Aqueduct (Tamagawa jōsui) is an Edo-period aqueduct, begun in 1653, carrying Tama River water about 43 km from Hamura to Edo, whose upper section still supplies Tokyo's waterworks.
Tamar Bridge
The Tamar Bridge is a suspension bridge carrying the A38 road over the River Tamar between Plymouth in Devon and Saltash in Cornwall, opened in 1961.
Tameike (溜め池) (irrigation ponds of Japan)
A tameike (溜め池) is an artificially constructed pond in Japan that stores irrigation water for rice paddies, built where rainfall is low; about 150,000 exist, mostly in the west.
Tanah Lot
Tanah Lot, or Pura Tanah Lot, is a Hindu sea temple on a rock formation off Bali's southwest coast in Tabanan Regency, cut off at high tide.
Tancredo Neves Bridge
The Tancredo Neves Bridge, also called the Fraternity Bridge, is an international road bridge over the Iguazu River linking Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, and Puerto Iguazú, Argentina.