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Trinity Dam
Trinity Dam is an earthfill dam on the Trinity River in Trinity County, California, completed in 1962. At 538 feet high, it forms Trinity Lake and diverts water to the Sacramento River Basin.
Trinity House
Trinity House is an English corporation, chartered by Henry VIII in 1514, serving as the General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales, the Channel Islands, and Gibraltar.
Tropical Islands Resort
Tropical Islands Resort, also known as Tropical Islands, is an indoor water park in Krausnick, Brandenburg, Germany, opened in 2004 inside a former airship hangar.
Tropical Modernism
Tropical Modernism is a style of modernist architecture adapted after World War II for hot, humid climates, developed by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew in West Africa and India.
Trullo
A trullo is a traditional dry-stone dwelling of Puglia in southern Italy, built of limestone without mortar and roofed with corbelled conical slabs; the finest examples stand in Alberobello, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996.
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)
Trump International Hotel and Tower, also known as Trump Tower Chicago, is a 92-story Skidmore, Owings & Merrill skyscraper on the Chicago River, completed in 2009.
Trump International Hotel Las Vegas
Trump International Hotel Las Vegas is a 64-story, non-gaming hotel and condominium tower near the Las Vegas Strip, opened in 2008 by Donald Trump and Phil Ruffin.
Trump Tower
Trump Tower is a 58-story skyscraper at 725 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, developed by Donald Trump on the former Bonwit Teller site and opened in 1983.
Trump World Tower
Trump World Tower is a 72-story all-concrete residential condominium tower at 845 United Nations Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, completed in 2001 and developed by The Trump Organization with Daewoo E&C.
Truss
A truss is a structure of individual members, each in tension or compression, connected at joints in triangular patterns that give rigidity with little material, most prominently in bridges.
Truss bridge
A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-carrying superstructure is a truss, a triangular framework whose members carry axial tension or compression, making efficient use of timber, iron, or steel.
Truss bridges in the United States
Truss bridges in the United States are metal bridges whose loads are carried by tension and compression frameworks; about 7,300 survive, mostly built between 1900 and 1930.
Truss model
A truss model is a structural analysis idealization that represents a structure as triangulated straight members with pinned joints, so every member carries only axial tension or compression.
Tsing Ma Bridge
The Tsing Ma Bridge (青马大桥) is a double-deck suspension bridge in Hong Kong carrying road and rail traffic between Tsing Yi and Ma Wan, opened in May 1997.
Tsukiji fish market (築地市場)
Tsukiji fish market (築地市場) was Tokyo's central wholesale fish market. Opened in 1935, it was among the world's largest until it moved to Toyosu in 2018.
Tubular bridge
A tubular bridge is a railway bridge whose track runs through a self-supporting wrought iron box girder, invented by Robert Stephenson in Wales in the late 1840s.
Tudor architecture
Tudor architecture, also called Tudor Gothic, is the building style of England under the Tudor dynasty, 1485 to 1603, from Perpendicular Gothic churches to great houses like Longleat.
Tudor Revival architecture
Tudor Revival architecture, also called Mock Tudor or Tudor Style, revives late-medieval English manor and cottage traditions, with steep roofs and decorative half-timbering, peaking in the 1920s and 1930s.
Tuileries Palace
The Tuileries Palace (Palais des Tuileries) was a royal and imperial palace in Paris, built for Catherine de' Medici from 1564 and destroyed by fire in 1871.
Tulja Bhavani Temple
Tulja Bhavani Temple (तुळजा भवानी) in Tuljapur, Maharashtra, is a Hindu temple to the goddess Tulja Bhavani, begun in the 12th century and counted among the 51 Shakti Peethas.
Tulou
Tulou (土楼) are large, multi-storey fortified communal dwellings of rammed earth in south-eastern China, built by Hakka and Minnan communities and inscribed by UNESCO in 2008.
Tumalo Irrigation District
Tumalo Irrigation District (TID) is a public irrigation district in Deschutes County, Oregon, delivering water from Tumalo Creek and the Deschutes River to about 7,400 acres near Tumalo.
Tuned liquid damper
A tuned liquid damper is a passive vibration-control device in which sloshing water, in a rigid tank, absorbs a structure's vibrational energy without springs or moving parts.
Túnel de la Línea
Túnel de la Línea is an 8.65-kilometer road tunnel between Calarcá and Cajamarca in Colombia's Central Andes, opened in 2020 as the longest road tunnel in Latin America.
Tungabhadra Dam (ತುಂಗಭದ್ರಾ ಅಣೆಕಟ್ಟು)
Tungabhadra Dam, also called Pampa Sagar, is a masonry gravity dam across the Tungabhadra River near Hospet, Karnataka, India, first impounded in 1953 as a joint irrigation project of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Tungabhadra Project
The Tungabhadra Project is a multipurpose inter-state dam and canal project on the Tungabhadra River near Hospet, Karnataka, built jointly by the former states of Madras and Hyderabad.
Tungnath (तुंगनाथ)
Tungnath (तुंगनाथ) is a Hindu temple of Shiva in Uttarakhand, India, perched at about 3,680 m and regarded as the highest Shiva temple in the world.
Tunnel
A tunnel is a horizontal underground passage excavated beneath the surface or, by cut-and-cover, built in a trench and backfilled, carrying roads, railways, water, sewage, and cables.
Tunnel and Reservoir Plan
The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP), called the Deep Tunnel, is a Chicago system of deep tunnels and reservoirs that reduces flooding and sewer overflows.
Tunnel boring machine
A tunnel boring machine (TBM) is a large machine that excavates circular tunnels through rock or soil with a rotating cutterhead, erecting the tunnel's concrete lining as it advances.