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The Boca Raton Resort

The Boca Raton Resort, now called The Boca Raton, is a historic luxury resort in Boca Raton, Florida, founded by architect Addison Mizner in 1926.

The Boring Company

The Boring Company is an American tunnel-construction company founded by Elon Musk that digs small-diameter tunnels and runs them as Loop transit systems with Tesla vehicles.

The Breakers

The Breakers is a 70-room Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, built 1893–1895 for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, and now open to the public.

The Broadmoor (hotel)

The Broadmoor is a historic luxury resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado, opened in 1918 by Spencer and Julie Penrose, holding a Forbes five-star rating for 65 consecutive years.

The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik

The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik (Katedrala sv. Jakova), Croatia, a three-nave stone basilica built 1431–1535 by Francesco di Giacomo, Juraj Dalmatinac, and Nikola Firentinac; Gothic-Renaissance blend, trefoil facade, 71-head frieze, UNESCO site since 2000.

The Century (apartment building)

The Century is a twin-towered Art Deco apartment building at 25 Central Park West in Manhattan, built in 1930–31 by Irwin S. Chanin on the site of the Century Theatre.

The Cloisters (Palm Springs)

The Cloisters is a 1930 Spanish Colonial Revival estate in Palm Springs, California, best known as the desert home of Liberace, who died there in 1987.

The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a vast cast-iron and glass exhibition building in Hyde Park, London, built in 1851 for the Great Exhibition and destroyed by fire in 1936.

The Dakota

The Dakota, also known as the Dakota Apartments, is a landmark cooperative apartment building at 72nd Street and Central Park West in Manhattan, completed in 1884.

The Devil We Know

The Devil We Know is a 2018 American documentary directed by Stephanie Soechtig examining how DuPont's Parkersburg, West Virginia plant released the Teflon chemical C8 (PFOA) into drinking water, and residents' litigation.

The Dome at America's Center

The Dome at America's Center, formerly the Trans World Dome, is a domed stadium and convention hall in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, home of the St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 2015.

The Eldorado (apartment building)

The Eldorado is a cooperative apartment building at 300 Central Park West on Manhattan's Upper West Side, built in 1929–1931 in the Art Deco style with twin towers.

The Exchange 106

The Exchange 106, also known as TRX Signature Tower, is a 453.6-meter supertall office tower in Kuala Lumpur's Tun Razak Exchange, completed in 2019 and formerly Malaysia's tallest building.

The First Church of Christ, Scientist

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, known as the Mother Church, is the Boston church founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 as headquarters of the Christian Science denomination.

The Forth Bridge

The Forth Bridge is a steel cantilever railway bridge linking Fife with Edinburgh across the Firth of Forth, opened in 1890 and a World Heritage Site since 2015.

The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut)

Four hydraulic boat lifts on the Canal du Centre, Hainaut, Belgium (Les quatre ascenseurs du canal du Centre), UNESCO World Heritage Site 1998; built 1888-1917 to Edwin Clark's design, the only such lifts worldwide still working in original condition.

The Galleria (Manhattan)

The Galleria is a mixed-use skyscraper at 115–119 East 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan, combining offices, a covered public galleria, and a residential tower, completed in 1975.

The Gathering at South Forsyth

The Gathering at South Forsyth is a planned mixed-use entertainment district in Forsyth County, Georgia, about 30 miles north of Atlanta, anchored by a proposed 18,500-seat NHL arena.

The Grand Canal

The Grand Canal (京杭大运河) is China's Beijing-to-Zhejiang inland waterway, begun in the 5th century BC, unified under the Sui, over 2,000 km by the 13th century, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014, still navigable.

The Grange (near Farnham)

The Grange (near Farnham): Grade I listed early 18th-century red brick house on Castle Hill, Farnham, Surrey, built about 1710 on the site of the former Bishop's Grange of the Bishops of Winchester, with Thornhill staircase decoration and listed garden walls.

The Grange (near Hereford)

The Grange, Adforton (Wigmore Grange), Herefordshire: Grade I listed house formed from monastic buildings of Wigmore Abbey, C12 and C14 with later alterations, with a separate Grade I gatehouse.

The Grange (near Saint Peters)

The Grange (near Saint Peters) is a Grade II Georgian town house at 16 St Peter's Street, St Albans, built in the 1760s for mayor John Osborn, later council offices, now a Nationwide branch; distinct from the medieval St Peter's Grange.

The Grange (near Winchester)

The Grange at Northington, Hampshire, also called Northington Grange, is a Grade I listed Greek Revival country house near Winchester: a 1665–73 William Samwell brick mansion encased by William Wilkins as a Greek temple, now an English Heritage opera venue.

The Greenbrier

The Greenbrier, also called the Greenbrier Resort, is a historic resort hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, opened in 1913 with a secret Cold War congressional bunker.

The Hoo

The Hoo: several English estates, chiefly Sir Edwin Lutyens' 1901-2 Grade I listed house at Willingdon, East Sussex, for Alexander Wedderburn, converted to 11 flats in 1955; also Kimpton, Great Gaddesden, Kempston, Hampstead, and the Hoo Peninsula.

The Image of the City

The Image of the City is a 1960 book by Kevin Lynch that examines how residents perceive their cities, introducing imageability and five elements of mental maps.

The Iron Bridge

The Iron Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge over the River Severn in Shropshire, England, completed in 1779 as the world's first all cast iron bridge.

The Kenilworth (apartment building)

The Kenilworth is a Beaux-Arts apartment building at 151 Central Park West on Manhattan's Upper West Side, built in 1906-08 by Townsend, Steinle & Haskell for the Lenox Realty Company.

The Langham (apartment building)

The Langham is a Beaux-Arts apartment building at 135 Central Park West on Manhattan's Upper West Side, built 1904 to 1907 from designs by Clinton & Russell.

The Link (building)

The Link (building): chiefly the 230 m cantilevered sky concourse of One Za'abeel, Dubai, by Nikken Sekkei, suspended 100 m up and holding the Guinness record for longest cantilevered building; also names buildings in Denver, New York, and Stamford.