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Bathroom
A bathroom is a room in a dwelling equipped for personal hygiene, typically containing a toilet and washbasin, and in a full bathroom a bathtub or shower.
Batoka Gorge Dam
The Batoka Gorge Dam is a proposed 2,400 MW hydroelectric dam on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, about 47 km downstream of Victoria Falls.
Battle Abbey
Battle Abbey is a ruined Benedictine monastery in Battle, East Sussex, founded by William the Conqueror on the site of his 1066 victory at Hastings.
Battle of Arnhem
The Battle of Arnhem was a September 1944 battle in which the British 1st Airborne Division failed to hold the Arnhem road bridge during Operation Market Garden.
Battle of Remagen
The Battle of Remagen, also called the Remagen Bridgehead, was the ten-day March 1945 fight over the Ludendorff Bridge, captured intact by the US 9th Armored Division.
Bauhaus Building (Dessau)
The Bauhaus Building (Bauhausgebäude) in Dessau, Germany, is the school building Walter Gropius designed for the Bauhaus, opened in 1926 and listed by UNESCO since 1996.
Baumeister (magazine)
Baumeister is a German monthly architecture magazine published in Munich since 1902, one of the longest-running in the German-speaking world, now the flagship of publisher Georg Media.
Bay window
A bay window is a glazed projection from a building's external wall that carries the floor out with it, forming an alcove; canted, box, and bow are its plan types.
Bayon
Bayon, also known as Bayon Temple, is a Khmer temple at the center of Angkor Thom, Cambodia, built in the late 12th century under King Jayavarman VII.
Bayonne Bridge
The Bayonne Bridge is a steel arch bridge across the Kill Van Kull between Bayonne, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York, completed in 1931 by the Port Authority.
Bayport Terminal
Bayport Terminal is a container shipping facility on the Bayport Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas, opened in 2007 as the second of Port Houston's two container terminals.
Beach nourishment
Beach nourishment, also called beach replenishment or beachfill, is the placement of dredged sand on eroding beaches to widen them and buffer storms, first practiced in the United States in the 1920s.
Beacon House
Beacon House is a Grade I listed Georgian town house built in 1766 on New Street in Painswick, Gloucestershire, possibly by the architect John Wood the Younger.
Beauvais Cathedral
Beauvais Cathedral, also known as Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais, is an unfinished Gothic Catholic cathedral in Beauvais, northern France, built from 1225 and known for the world's tallest Gothic choir vault.
Beaux-Arts architecture
Beaux-Arts architecture, also called Beaux-Arts style or Beaux Arts Classicism, is a classical, eclectic style tied to Paris's École des Beaux-Arts and dominant in America, 1880 to 1920.
Beaver dam
A beaver dam, also called a beaver impoundment, is a barrier of branches, mud, and rocks built by beavers across a stream to create a pond.
Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic
Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic: Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) in Brdy Protected Landscape Area built dams on the Klabava in 2021-2024 where a human revitalization project stalled since 2018, saving about 30 million koruna ($1.2 million).
Bechtel
Bechtel, also known as Bechtel Corporation, is a privately held American engineering and construction company founded by Warren A. Bechtel in 1898, headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
Beemster Polder
The Beemster Polder (Droogmakerij de Beemster) is a 7,208-hectare reclaimed agricultural landscape north of Amsterdam, created by draining Lake Beemster between 1608 and 1612.
Begich Towers
Begich Towers, built as the Army's Hodge Building in 1948, is a 14-story condominium in Whittier, Alaska, housing most of the town's residents and services under one roof.
Belcourt Castle
Belcourt Castle is the popular nickname for Belcourt, a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont and built from 1891 to 1895.
Belém Tower
Belém Tower (Torre de Belém) is a 16th-century fortification on the Tagus River in Lisbon, Portugal, built under King Manuel I between 1514 and 1519.
Beli dvor
Beli dvor (White Palace), royal classicist residence in Dedinje, Belgrade, part of the Royal Compound. Built 1934–1937 by architect Aleksandar Đorđević for King Alexander I's three sons; later Prince Regent Paul's and Tito's residence.
Bell Rock Lighthouse
The Bell Rock Lighthouse, built on the Bell Rock (Inchcape) reef off Angus, Scotland, from 1807 to 1810, is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse.
Bellagio (resort)
Bellagio is a luxury resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, opened in 1998 by Steve Wynn and known for the Fountains of Bellagio.
Belo Monte Dam
The Belo Monte Dam (Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte) is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric plant on the Xingu River in Pará, Brazil, with an installed capacity of 11,233.1 MW.
Belsay Hall
Belsay Hall is an early nineteenth-century Greek Revival country house at Belsay in Northumberland, England, built to Sir Charles Monck's own design and now owned by English Heritage.
Belur Math (বেলুড় মঠ)
Belur Math (বেলুড় মঠ), also spelled Belur Mutt, is the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission on the Hooghly river in Howrah, West Bengal.
Belvedere, Vienna
Belvedere, Vienna: Baroque palace complex built 1712–1723 by Hildebrandt for Prince Eugene of Savoy; since 1777 a public museum holding the world's largest Klimt collection, including The Kiss, across Upper Belvedere, Lower Belvedere, and Belvedere 21.
Belvoir Castle
Belvoir Castle is a Grade I listed Gothic-style country house in Leicestershire, England, the hilltop seat of the Dukes of Rutland, rebuilt between 1801 and 1830.