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Veolia
Veolia Environnement S.A., formerly Vivendi Environnement, is a French multinational company providing water, waste, and energy management services worldwide, formed in 1999 and renamed Veolia in 2003.
Veranda
A veranda, also spelled verandah, is a roofed gallery or portico along one or more sides of a building at ground level, providing shade between indoors and outdoors.
Vernacular architecture
Vernacular architecture, or folk architecture, is the traditional building of a community, designed by local people with local materials and informally passed-down knowledge, not trained architects.
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, once called the Staten Island Bridge, is a double-deck suspension bridge in New York City connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island, opened in 1964.
Versailles (house)
The Palace of Versailles (Château de Versailles) is a former French royal residence near Paris, the seat of the monarchy from Louis XIV until 1789 and today a museum.
Versailles wedding hall disaster
Versailles wedding hall disaster: 24 May 2001 collapse of a Pal-Kal dance floor in Talpiot, Jerusalem, killing 23 and injuring over 350; Zeiler inquiry, convictions of owners and engineers, NIS 120m compensation.
Vertical curve
A vertical curve is a parabolic transition connecting two road grades of different slope, taking crest form arcing over a hill or sag form arcing down like a bowl.
Vertical lift gate
A vertical lift gate is a flat hydraulic gate that moves straight up and down to control water flow through spillways, outlet works, and navigation locks.
Vertical-lift bridge
A vertical-lift bridge is a movable bridge whose horizontal span rises straight up between two towers, counterweighted so small motors lift spans over 1,000 tons.
Veruela Abbey
Veruela Abbey, formally the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Veruela, is a former Cistercian monastery near Vera de Moncayo, Zaragoza, Spain, founded around 1145.
Vessel (structure)
Vessel is a climbable, honeycomb-like structure of 2,500 steps in 154 flights at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, designed by Thomas Heatherwick, opened in 2019, and reopened with mesh barriers in 2024.
Vestibule (architecture)
A vestibule, also called an anteroom or ante-chamber, is a transitional room between a building's exterior and interior that buffers the passage of air and contaminants.
Viaduct
A viaduct is a long bridge made of a series of short spans on multiple piers, carrying a road or railway across a valley or other extended low-lying obstacle.
Vibration absorber
A vibration absorber, also called a tuned mass damper, is a small spring-mass system tuned to counteract a structure's resonance, first patented by Hermann Frahm in 1911.
Vibro-compaction
Vibro-compaction, also called vibroflotation, is a deep ground improvement technique that densifies loose, clean sands with a depth vibrator and water jets, first tested in Germany between 1937 and 1939.
Victoria Bridge (Montreal)
Victoria Bridge (French: pont Victoria) is a road and rail bridge crossing the Saint Lawrence River between Montreal and Saint-Lambert, completed in 1859 as the longest railway bridge in the world.
Victoria Dam (Sri Lanka)
Victoria Dam is a doubly curved concrete arch dam on the Mahaweli River at Theldeniya, central Sri Lanka, completed in 1985 as the largest concrete dam in the country.
Victoria Tower
The Victoria Tower is the tallest tower of the Palace of Westminster in London, completed in 1860 and built as the royal entrance and records repository for Parliament.
Victorian architecture
Victorian architecture is the building tradition of the British Isles and Empire under Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901, mixing Gothic, classical, and Romanesque revivals.
Victorian house
A Victorian house, or Victorian home, is a dwelling built during Queen Victoria's reign, 1837 to 1901, spanning styles from Gothic Revival to Queen Anne.
Vidhana Soudha (ವಿಧಾನ ಸೌಧ)
Vidhana Soudha (ವಿಧಾನ ಸೌಧ) is the granite building in Bengaluru, India, that houses the Karnataka State Legislature and Secretariat, and is regarded as the largest legislative building in India.
Vidyasagar Setu (বিদ্যাসাগর সেতু)
Vidyasagar Setu (বিদ্যাসাগর সেতু), also called the Second Hooghly Bridge, is a cable-stayed toll bridge over the Hooghly River linking Kolkata and Howrah, India, opened in 1992.
Vienna City Hall
Vienna City Hall, or Wiener Rathaus, is the neo-Gothic seat of Vienna's city government on Rathausplatz, built to Friedrich Schmidt's design between 1872 and 1883.
Vierendeel truss
A Vierendeel truss is a truss-like frame with parallel chords joined only by vertical members with rigid joints, leaving rectangular openings; Arthur Vierendeel patented it in 1896.
Viking ring fortress
The Viking ring fortress, or Trelleborg-type fortress, is a monumental circular fortification built in Denmark between about 970 and 980 CE during the reign of King Harald Bluetooth.
Villa
A villa is a country house, originally the Latin term for an elite rural residence and its farming estate, later used for country houses across Europe and beyond.
Villa Aldobrandini
Villa Aldobrandini, also known as Villa Belvedere, is a late sixteenth-century villa in Frascati near Rome, built for Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, nephew of Pope Clement VIII.
Villa Arianna
Villa Arianna is a Roman villa on the Varano hill at Stabiae near Naples, buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE and named for a fresco of Ariadne.
Villa Barbaro
Villa Barbaro, also known as the Villa di Maser, is a Palladian villa at Maser, Veneto, designed by Andrea Palladio and frescoed by Paolo Veronese.
Villa Commedia
Villa Commedia, the "Comedy" villa, was one of two Lake Como villas of Pliny the Younger, paired with Villa Tragedia; Pliny's letter to Voconius Romanus places Comedy at the water's edge and Tragedy on a hilltop.