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The Watergate
The Watergate: Grade I listed building at Watergate Street and Row, Chester, England, list entry 1376468, first listed 28 July 1955; named for the historic Watergate where the medieval Watergate Street meets Chester's city walls.
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, also known as Whiting-Turner, is a privately held American general contractor founded in Baltimore in 1909 by MIT classmates G.W.C. Whiting and LeBaron Turner.
The Willard Hotel
The Willard Hotel is a historic luxury hotel at 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., two blocks from the White House, in continuous operation since 1818.
The Windermere (Chicago)
The Windermere was a grand hotel and apartment hotel in Hyde Park on Chicago's South Side, built in 1892 for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
Theo Deutinger
Theo Deutinger (born 1971) is an architect, illustrator, and author known for Handbook of Tyranny (2017), a book of technical drawings documenting state cruelty, and founder of The Department.
Thermal comfort
Thermal comfort, also called comfort temperature, is the condition of mind expressing satisfaction with the thermal environment, assessed by models like Fanger's PMV and standards such as ASHRAE 55.
Thermal comfort model
A thermal comfort model predicts how comfortable building occupants will feel from air temperature, humidity, air speed, and personal factors, producing indices such as PMV and PPD rather than a single temperature.
Thermally modified timber
Thermally modified timber (TMT), also called heat-treated wood, is wood heated to 160–240 °C without chemical preservatives, giving improved dimensional stability and decay resistance but reduced strength; used for decking and cladding.
Therme Group
Therme Group is a private international developer and operator of large-scale urban wellbeing resorts combining thermal bathing, saunas, water slides, and art, led by founder Robert Hanea.
Third Temple
The Third Temple (Beit HaMikdash HaShlishi) is the future Jewish temple expected in messianic belief and some Christian prophecy to be built on Jerusalem's Temple Mount.
Thirlmere
Thirlmere is a reservoir in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, built between 1890 and 1894 by damming a natural lake to supply Manchester via Britain's longest gravity-fed aqueduct.
Thirlmere Aqueduct
The Thirlmere Aqueduct is a 96-mile gravity-fed water supply aqueduct built by Manchester Corporation between 1890 and 1925, carrying water from Thirlmere in the Lake District to Manchester.
Tholing Monastery
Tholing Monastery (Tibetan: མཐོ་ལྡིང་, also spelled Toling or Toding) is a Buddhist monastery in Ngari, western Tibet, founded around 996 as the royal temple of the Guge Kingdom.
Thomas Crapper
Thomas Crapper (1836–1910) was an English plumber who founded Thomas Crapper & Co in Chelsea, London, in 1861, holding nine plumbing patents and supplying the royal household.
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford (1757–1834) was a Scottish civil engineer who built canals, roads, and bridges across Britain and served as first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Thomas Wylde (clothier)
Thomas Wylde (died 1559) was an English clothier of Worcester who grew rich in the broadcloth trade, acquired the Commandery, and served as bailiff and Member of Parliament.
Thomas Zarro Scarangello
Thomas Zarro Scarangello is an American structural engineer, chairman and CEO of Thornton Tomasetti from 2008 to 2020, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Thousand Pillar Temple
The Thousand Pillar Temple, also called Veyisthambala Gudi, is a 12th-century Hindu temple at Hanamkonda in Telangana, India, built by the Kakatiya king Rudra Deva.
Three Gorges Dam (三峡大坝)
The Three Gorges Dam (三峡大坝) is a concrete gravity dam at Sandouping on the Yangtze River in Hubei, China, built from 1994 to 2009 with the world's largest hydropower capacity.
Three Sisters (Pittsburgh)
The Three Sisters, also known as the Three Sisters Bridges, are three nearly identical self-anchored suspension bridges carrying Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Streets over the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, built 1924 to 1928.
Through arch bridge
A through arch bridge is an arch bridge in which the arches rise above the deck and the roadway passes between them, usually suspended from the arch ribs by hangers.
Tiananmen (天安门)
Tiananmen (天安门), formerly Chengtianmen (承天门), is the main gate tower of the Ming–Qing imperial city of Beijing on the central axis, rebuilt in 1651 and 1969–70, 34.7 m tall, backdrop of the 1949 PRC founding proclamation.
Tianjing (architecture)
Tianjing (天井, "sky well") is a small, deep, open-to-the-sky courtyard set inside a traditional Chinese house, serving lighting, ventilation, rainwater collection, drainage, and fire protection; it is the main residence type across South China.
Tibetan Buddhist architecture
Tibetan Buddhist architecture is the tradition of monasteries, temples, stupas, and palaces of Tibetan Buddhism, developed from the 7th century on the Tibetan Plateau and across the Himalayas.
Tidal inlet
A tidal inlet is a narrow waterway cutting through a barrier island or spit, connecting the ocean to the bay or lagoon behind it and exchanging water with the tide.
Tied-arch bridge
The tied-arch bridge, also known as the bowstring arch bridge, carries arch thrust in tension through its deck, an idea Robert Stephenson used at Newcastle in 1849.
Tigris–Euphrates water disputes
The Tigris–Euphrates water disputes are long-running disagreements among Turkey, Syria, and Iraq over sharing the rivers' water, with crises since the 1970s and no binding trilateral agreement.
Tijuana River sewage spills
The Tijuana River sewage spills are recurring cross-border wastewater discharges from Tijuana, Mexico, that flow into the Pacific Ocean at Imperial Beach, California, closing beaches for years.
Tile drainage
Tile drainage is an agricultural method that removes excess water from fields through buried perforated pipes, historically clay tiles and today plastic tubing, lowering the water table.
Timber crib dam
A timber crib dam is a gravity dam built from interlocking timber cribs filled with stone or gravel, widely used in 19th-century North American logging.