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Villa Savoye
Villa Savoye is a modernist weekend house in Poissy, France, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret from 1928 to 1931 for the Savoye family.
Villa Stein
Villa Stein, formally the Villa Stein-de-Monzie and known as Les Terrasses, is a reinforced concrete house at Garches near Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and built by 1928.
Villa Torlonia
Villa Torlonia is a nineteenth-century noble villa and park on the Via Nomentana in Rome, built for the Torlonia banking family and now a museum complex.
Villa Tugendhat
Villa Tugendhat (Vila Tugendhat) is a modernist house in Brno, Czech Republic, designed by Mies van der Rohe and built in 1929–1930 for Grete and Fritz Tugendhat.
Villa urbana
The villa urbana, or pars urbana, is the residential wing of a Roman country estate, built with town-house comforts like baths and mosaics, unlike the working villa rustica.
Villa Windsor
Villa Windsor is a 1929 mansion in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, best known as the home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor from 1953.
Vincent Thomas Bridge
The Vincent Thomas Bridge is a suspension bridge carrying State Route 47 across the Port of Los Angeles between San Pedro and Terminal Island, opened in 1963.
Vinci SA
Vinci SA, also known as the Vinci group and formerly Société Générale d'Entreprises, is a French concessions, energy solutions, and construction group employing 294,000 people in more than 120 countries.
Virginia State Capitol
The Virginia State Capitol is Virginia's statehouse in Richmond, designed by Thomas Jefferson and begun in 1785 as the first Roman temple-style public building in the United States.
Virupaksha Temple, Hampi
Virupaksha Temple is a working Hindu temple at Hampi in Karnataka, India, dedicated to Shiva, and the principal monument of the UNESCO-listed Group of Monuments at Hampi.
Viscoelastic damper
A viscoelastic damper is a passive energy-dissipation device in which a polymer sheared between steel plates converts vibration into heat, first installed in the World Trade Center in 1969.
Viscous damper
A viscous damper is a passive energy-dissipation device whose force is proportional to velocity, most commonly a piston moving in silicone oil that absorbs seismic and wind energy.
Visoki Dečani
Visoki Dečani is a Serbian Orthodox monastery near Dečan in western Kosovo, built in the 14th century by King Stefan Dečanski and serving as his mausoleum.
Vitruvius
Vitruvius, full name Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, was a Roman architect and military engineer of the first century BCE, author of De architectura, the only architectural treatise to survive from antiquity.
Vittoriale degli Italiani
The Vittoriale degli Italiani is a monumental complex built from 1921 at Gardone Riviera on Lake Garda by poet Gabriele d'Annunzio, who lived there until 1938.
Viviers Roman bridge
Gallo-Roman stone bridge, also called Pont Romain, over the Escoutay at Viviers, Ardèche, France. Built in the 2nd–3rd century on the right-bank Rhône road network, it has 11 surviving arches, is about 100 m long, and was classified a monument historique in 1986.
Vizcaya Bridge
The Vizcaya Bridge (Puente de Vizcaya, Bizkaia Bridge) is a transporter bridge over the Bilbao estuary in Spain, completed in 1893 and operating ever since.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, formerly Villa Vizcaya, is a National Historic Landmark estate on Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida, built between 1914 and 1922 as the winter home of James Deering.
Vladimir-Suzdal white stone architecture
Vladimir-Suzdal white stone architecture is a 12th- and 13th-century Russian building school using carved white limestone, whose eight monuments became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992.
Vlasov thin-walled beam theory
Vlasov thin-walled beam theory is a structural mechanics model, developed by V. Z. Vlasov in the late 1930s, describing bending, torsion, and warping of open-section beams.
Vlotbrug
A vlotbrug (plural vlotbruggen) is a Dutch movable bridge whose floating pontoons are slid across the canal from the banks and drawn aside for shipping.
Voies navigables de France
Voies navigables de France (VNF) is a French public establishment created in 1991 that manages 6,700 km of canals and rivers, about 80 percent of the French navigable network.
Volcano House (California)
Volcano House is a dome-shaped mid-century modern house built in 1968 atop a 150-foot volcanic cinder cone in Newberry Springs, California, designed by architect Harold J. Bissner Jr.
Volga–Don Canal
The Volga–Don Canal, also known as the Volga-Don Ship Canal, is a 101-kilometer ship canal in southern Russia linking the Volga at Volgograd with the Don, opened in 1952.
Völklingen Ironworks
The Völklingen Ironworks (Völklinger Hütte) is a former pig-iron production complex in Völklingen, Saarland, Germany, whose blast furnaces closed in 1986 and which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.
Volkshalle
The Volkshalle (Große Halle, "Great Hall") was an unbuilt domed assembly building designed by Albert Speer to Adolf Hitler's specifications for his planned redevelopment of Berlin.
Vostok Station
Vostok Station (Russian: станция Восток) is a Russian year-round scientific research station in central East Antarctica, opened on 16 December 1957 near the South geomagnetic pole at 3,488 m.
Vyrnwy aqueduct
The Vyrnwy aqueduct is a gravity-fed system of three parallel pipelines carrying drinking water about 110 km from Lake Vyrnwy to Prescot, east of Liverpool.
W. A. C. Bennett Dam
The W. A. C. Bennett Dam, originally named Portage Mountain Dam, is a large earthfill hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia, completed in 1967.
W. David Goodyear
W. David Goodyear is an American consulting structural engineer specializing in long-span bridges, engineer of record for the Hoover Dam bypass bridge and chief bridge engineer at T.Y. Lin International.