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Torre di Palidoro
Torre di Palidoro (Torre Perla), a coastal watchtower in Fiumicino near Rome on the via Aurelia, built on Roman villa ruins, restored 1562-1563, and the site of Salvo D'Acquisto's 1943 execution; reopened as a Carabinieri museum in 2020.
Torre Glòries
Torre Glòries, formerly the Torre Agbar, is a 144.4 m office skyscraper in Barcelona designed by Jean Nouvel, built for the city's water company and completed in 2004.
Torre Picasso
Torre Picasso (Picasso Tower) is a 157-meter, 43-floor office skyscraper in the AZCA business district of Madrid, Spain, designed by World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki and completed in 1988.
Torre PwC
Torre PwC is a 236-meter skyscraper in Madrid, formerly the Torre Sacyr Vallehermoso, the third tallest in Madrid and one of four towers in the Cuatro Torres Business Area.
Torre Reforma
Torre Reforma is a 246-meter, 57-story office skyscraper on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, completed in 2016 and designed by architect L. Benjamín Romano.
Total dissolved solids
Total dissolved solids (TDS) is the mass of dissolved salts and organic matter in water, reported in mg/L as a measure of how mineralized the water is.
Total suspended solids
Total suspended solids (TSS) is the mass of particles in water retained on a filter and dried to constant weight, a core wastewater and surface-water quality parameter reported in mg/L.
Tour F
Tour F, also known as F Tower, is a 421-meter, 75-floor office skyscraper under construction in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed to become the tallest building in Africa.
Tour First
Tour First is a 231-meter office skyscraper in the La Défense business district west of Paris, rebuilt in 2011 and the tallest building in France until 2025.
Tour Montparnasse
Tour Montparnasse, also called Tour Maine-Montparnasse, is a 210-meter office skyscraper in Paris, inaugurated in 1973 over the Montparnasse railway station and still the tallest building within the city limits.
Towards a New Architecture
Towards a New Architecture is the standard English title of Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier's 1923 book calling for an architecture based on industry, mass production, and geometric form.
Tower
A tower is a structure tall in proportion to its base, serving purposes such as defense, prayer, signaling, or observation rather than habitation, with forms that usually taper upwards.
Tower 42
Tower 42, formerly the NatWest Tower, is a 42-storey skyscraper at 25 Old Broad Street in the City of London. Completed in 1980, it was the City's first skyscraper.
Tower block
A tower block, also called a high-rise building, is a multi-storey residential building entered through one point and served by a single lift and stair shaft.
Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge across the River Thames in London, built between 1886 and 1894 and still legally required to open for river traffic.
Tower Buildings
Tower Buildings: name shared by several British listed buildings, chiefly the Grade I Blackpool Tower complex (1891-94, Maxwell and Tuke, 518 ft tower), plus tenements in Wapping, Liverpool's Tower Building, and blocks in Lockerbie, Wigan, and Birnam.
Tower house
A tower house is a compact multi-storey fortified residence, the dominant castellated home of lords and lairds in late medieval Ireland, Scotland, and northern England.
Tower of David (מגדל דוד)
The Tower of David (Migdal David), also called the Jerusalem Citadel, is an ancient citadel at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, now home to the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum.
Tower of Hercules
The Tower of Hercules (Torre de Hércules), known to the Romans as Farum Brigantium, is a 1st-century Roman lighthouse in A Coruña, north-western Spain, and the oldest still in service.
Tower Subway
The Tower Subway is a tube tunnel under the Thames in London, opened in 1870 as the world's first tube railway and today carrying water mains and cables.
Towers of Bologna
The Towers of Bologna are the medieval masonry tower houses of Bologna, Italy, once numbering up to 100; about 22 survive, including the leaning Asinelli and Garisenda towers.
Town Hall (near Leeds)
Town Hall (near Leeds): Leeds Town Hall, Grade I listed Victorian municipal building on The Headrow, designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, opened by Queen Victoria 1858, 225 ft clock tower; also Morley Town Hall nearby.
Town Hall (near Reading)
Reading Town Hall (Blagrave Street, RG1 1QH) is a Grade II listed group of municipal buildings, built 1785-1897 by Charles Poulton, Alfred Waterhouse, Thomas Lainson, and Cooper and Howell, housing Reading Museum, concert halls, and the Register Office.
Town Hall (near Sheffield)
Sheffield Town Hall, Pinstone Street: Grade I listed Renaissance Revival municipal building (1890–97) by E. W. Mountford, opened by Queen Victoria in 1897, seat of Sheffield City Council, distinct from the derelict Grade II Old Town Hall and Grade II City Hall, now facing a £340m–£450m restoration.
Town Hall (near Tynemouth)
The Town Hall near Tynemouth, built in North Shields in 1844 to John Dobson's design, served as the Borough of Tynemouth's civic center until 1974.
Town Hall (near Warrington)
Warrington Town Hall (Bank Hall), a 1750 James Gibbs Palladian mansion on Sankey Street, Warrington, Grade I listed, council-owned since the early 1870s, with Grade II listed Coalbrookdale Golden Gates of 1862.
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen (Bremer Rathaus und Roland), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004: Gothic town hall of 1405-1409 with Weser Renaissance façade, New Town Hall of 1909-1913, and the 1404 Roland statue, symbols of Bremen's civic autonomy.
Townhouse
A townhouse, also called a townhome, is a multistory single-family dwelling sharing a party wall with a neighbor, ranging from aristocratic London houses to North American suburbs.
Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall is a charitable institution in Whitechapel, London, founded in 1884 by Samuel and Henrietta Barnett as the world's first university settlement house, a model widely imitated internationally.
Tract housing
Tract housing, also known as tract homes, is housing built by a production builder on a large subdivided parcel, using standardized floor plans and model homes.