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Tensile structure
A tensile structure, also called tensile architecture, is a roof in which a membrane or cable net stretched between masts and cables carries loads entirely in tension.
Tent-roof architecture
Tent-roof architecture (шатровое зодчество) is a Russian style in which churches and towers are crowned by pyramidal tents, widespread in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Terminal Tower
Terminal Tower is a 52-story, 708-foot Beaux-Arts skyscraper at Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio, built by the Van Sweringen brothers as the centerpiece of Cleveland Union Terminal; tallest in the US until 1964, now part of Tower City Center.
Terraced house
A terraced house, also called a row house or townhouse, is an individual dwelling in a continuous row, sharing party walls with neighbors; the form dates to Inigo Jones' 1630 Covent Garden design.
Terraced houses in the United Kingdom
Terraced houses in the United Kingdom are houses in rows of three or more, sharing side walls, a characteristic form in British towns since Georgian and Victorian times.
Terrazzo
Terrazzo is a composite flooring material of Venetian origin in which chips of marble, granite, quartz, or glass are set in cement or epoxy and polished smooth.
Terrestrial laser scanning
Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is a ground-based surveying method in which tripod-mounted lidar instruments measure millions of surface points per second, producing dense 3D point clouds of terrain, buildings, and vegetation.
Tertiary treatment
Tertiary treatment is the third major stage of wastewater treatment, applied after primary and secondary treatment to produce higher-quality effluent through filtration, disinfection, and nutrient removal.
Terzaghi's bearing capacity theory
Terzaghi's bearing capacity theory is a semi-empirical method, published by Karl Terzaghi in 1943, for computing the ultimate bearing capacity of a shallow foundation from the soil's cohesion, friction angle, and unit weight.
Terzaghi's principle of effective stress
Terzaghi's principle of effective stress states that in saturated soil, compression and shear strength depend only on effective stress, total stress minus pore water pressure, introduced by Karl Terzaghi in 1923.
Tesla valve
The Tesla valve, also called the valvular conduit, is a check valve with no moving parts, patented by Nikola Tesla in 1920, that resists reverse flow.
Teton Dam
Teton Dam was a Bureau of Reclamation earthfill dam on the Teton River in Idaho that collapsed during first filling on June 5, 1976, killing 11 people.
Tewkesbury Abbey
Tewkesbury Abbey, a Benedictine abbey church consecrated in 1121 at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, retains its Norman tower and has served as the town's parish church since 1540.
Texas Chainsaw House
The Texas Chainsaw House is the Victorian farmhouse in Kingsland, Texas, that played the cannibal family's home in the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Texas State Capitol
The Texas State Capitol in Austin, built 1882–1888 of Sunset Red granite, is the seat of Texas government and the largest state capitol in the United States.
Thai Canal
The Thai Canal, also called the Kra Canal, is a long-proposed shipping canal across the Kra Isthmus in southern Thailand that has been studied since 1677 but never built.
Thames Barrier
The Thames Barrier, also known as the Thames flood barrier, is a movable flood barrier across the River Thames near Woolwich in east London, protecting central London from storm surges.
Thames Cable Tunnel
The Thames Cable Tunnel is a 1960s tunnel carrying 400 kV electricity cables under the River Thames between Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent.
Thames Gateway Water Treatment Works
Thames Gateway Water Treatment Works, also called the Thames Water Desalination Plant, is a desalination plant at Beckton in east London, opened in 2010 as the first large-scale desalination plant in the United Kingdom.
Thames House
Thames House is a Grade II listed office building at Millbank in London, built in 1929–31 and the headquarters of MI5, the UK's Security Service, since 1994.
Thames Tideway Tunnel
The Thames Tideway Tunnel is a 25 km sewer tunnel beneath London, built to stop sewage spilling into the Thames and fully operational since February 2025.
Thames Tunnel
The Thames Tunnel is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping, built between 1825 and 1843 by Marc Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Thames Water
Thames Water, formally Thames Water Utilities Limited, is the UK's largest water and wastewater services provider, serving 16 million customers across London, the Thames Valley, and the Home Counties.
Thames Water Ring Main
The Thames Water Ring Main is an 80 km deep tunnel loop beneath London, completed in 1994 to supply treated water to about 6 million people.
Thatching
Thatching, also known as thatched roofing, is the craft of roofing a building with bundled plant material such as straw, water reed, rushes, or sedge.
The 42 (Kolkata)
The 42 is a 65-storey residential skyscraper at 42B Chowringhee Road in Kolkata, India. Completed in 2019 at 249 m, it is the tallest building in the city.
The Almshouses
The Almshouses, Church Street, Stratford-upon-Avon: a Grade I listed row of twenty-two timber-framed almshouses built by the Guild of the Holy Cross in 1427-8, restored 1892 and 1982-84.
The Architecture of the City
The Architecture of the City, also known as L'architettura della città, is a 1966 book of urban theory by Aldo Rossi that treats the city as collective memory.
The Belvedere
The Belvedere: name shared by view-commanding structures, chiefly the Vienna Baroque palace museum (1712-1723, Klimt's The Kiss), plus Central Park's 1872 folly, Kent's Grade I folly, and Louisville's plaza.
The Beverly Hills Hotel
The Beverly Hills Hotel is a historic luxury hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California, opened in 1912 and known as the "Pink Palace."