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Tangiwai disaster
The Tangiwai disaster was a 1953 rail crash in New Zealand in which 151 people died after a lahar destroyed a bridge, the country's worst railway accident.
Tap (valve)
A tap, called a faucet in American English, is a valve on the end of a pipe or vessel that controls the flow of liquid, typically water.
Tap water
Tap water, also called piped water, is water supplied through a public distribution network for drinking, cooking, and household uses, treated to meet legally enforceable quality standards.
Tappan Zee Bridge (1955–2017)
The Tappan Zee Bridge, officially the Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge, carried the New York State Thruway across the Hudson River from 1955 to 2017.
Tappan Zee Bridge (2017–present)
The Tappan Zee Bridge, officially the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, is a twin-span bridge over the Hudson River between Tarrytown and South Nyack, New York.
Tar Works in Troki
Смалярня ў Троках (Смолокурня в Троках), a tar-works industrial heritage site in the village of Troki, Valozhyn district, Minsk region, Belarus, at 53.93169, 26.69742; distinct from Trakai, Lithuania.
Tara Polar Station
Tara Polar Station is a French drifting research vessel built to be frozen into Arctic sea ice as a scientific laboratory for expeditions from 2026 to 2046.
Tarbela Dam
Tarbela Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Indus River in Pakistan, completed in 1976; it is the largest earth-filled dam in the world by structural volume.
Target value design
Target value design (TVD) is a construction management practice that steers design to a cost target set before design, adapting target costing from manufacturing; first applied in 2002 on the St. Olaf College Tostrud Fieldhouse.
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (2017) in Upper Silesia, Poland: historic Friedrichsgrube mine with over 50 km of main drainage tunnels, gravity adit drainage, and a water supply still serving the town.
Tarr Steps (United Kingdom)
Tarr Steps: a 55 m, 17-span clapper bridge of stone slabs on dry-stone piers crossing the River Barle in Exmoor, Somerset; the longest clapper bridge in Britain, probably built in the 15th-16th century, Grade I listed and scheduled, repeatedly rebuilt after floods.
Tarrant Regional Water District
Tarrant Regional Water District is a water district in North Texas that supplies wholesale raw water to more than 2.5 million people, including the Fort Worth area.
Tashan Weir (它山堰)
Tashan Weir (它山堰), also called Tuoshan Weir or Tuoshanyan, is a Tang dynasty stone weir on the Yinjiang River in Ningbo, Zhejiang, built in 833 AD to block saline tides and store fresh water.
Task lighting
Task lighting is lighting directed to a specific surface or area to illuminate a visual task like reading, grooming, or computer work, defined by purpose rather than fixture type.
Tasman Bridge
The Tasman Bridge is a concrete girder bridge carrying the Tasman Highway across the River Derwent in Hobart, Tasmania, opened in 1964 and rebuilt after the 1975 Lake Illawarra disaster.
Tasman Bridge disaster
The Tasman Bridge disaster was the 1975 collision of the bulk carrier Lake Illawarra with Hobart's Tasman Bridge, which collapsed spans, killed 12 people, and sank the ship.
Tata Somba
Tata Somba, called takienta in the singular, are the fortified mud tower-houses built by the Batammariba people of the Koutammakou region, straddling north-eastern Togo and north-western Benin.
Tauern Tunnel fire (1999)
The Tauern Tunnel fire was a 1999 crash and blaze in Austria's Tauern road tunnel that killed 12 people and closed the tunnel for three months.
Taunsa Barrage
Taunsa Barrage is a barrage across the River Indus in Punjab, Pakistan, completed in 1958 to divert water for irrigating about 2.35 million acres and to control floods.
Tay Bridge
The Tay Bridge, or Tay Railway Bridge, is a double-track railway bridge across the Firth of Tay between Dundee and Wormit, Scotland, opened on 20 June 1887.
Tay Bridge disaster
The Tay Bridge disaster, also called the Tay Rail Bridge disaster, was the 1879 storm collapse of the first Tay Rail Bridge at Dundee, Scotland, drowning 75 people.
TD Canada Trust Tower (Toronto)
The TD Canada Trust Tower is a 51-storey office skyscraper at 161 Bay Street in Toronto, completed in 1990, the taller tower of the Brookfield Place complex.
Team 10 (architecture)
Team 10, also written Team X, was a group of architects formed in 1954 from younger members of CIAM, whose critique of functionalist planning hastened CIAM's dissolution in 1959.
Teatro Amazonas
Teatro Amazonas is an opera house in Manaus, Brazil, inaugurated in 1896 during the Amazon rubber boom and inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2026.
Teatro Argentina
Teatro Argentina is an 18th-century opera house at Largo di Torre Argentina in Rome, inaugurated in 1732 and remembered for the fiasco premiere of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia in 1816.
Teatro Arriaga
The Teatro Arriaga is Bilbao's principal opera house, a Neo-Baroque building designed by Joaquín Rucoba, built from 1886 to 1890 and named after composer Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga.
Teatro Bolívar
Teatro Bolívar is a large theater and cultural center in the Historic Center of Quito, Ecuador, inaugurated in 1933 and known for its Art Deco design.
Teatro Carignano
The Teatro Carignano is an 18th-century theater in Turin, Italy, built for the princes of Carignano and now the principal stage of the Teatro Stabile di Torino.
Teatro Comunale, Bologna
The Teatro Comunale is Bologna's principal opera house, one of Italy's first built with public funds, opened in 1763 with the premiere of Gluck's Il trionfo di Clelia.
Teatro de la Ciudad
Teatro de la Ciudad, formally Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, is a neoclassical theater in Mexico City's historic center, inaugurated in 1918 by President Venustiano Carranza.