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West Pier
The West Pier was a pleasure pier at Brighton, England, built 1863–1866 to Eugenius Birch's design and now a rusting offshore ruin after fires in 2003.
Western Corridor Recycled Water Project
The Western Corridor Recycled Water Project is a water recycling scheme in South East Queensland, Australia, treating Brisbane's and Ipswich's wastewater and supplying purified water chiefly to power stations.
Western Scheldt Tunnel
The Western Scheldt Tunnel (Dutch: Westerscheldetunnel) is a 6.6-kilometer bored road tunnel in the Netherlands, opened in 2003, carrying the N62 under the Western Scheldt estuary between Zuid-Beveland and Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.
Western Treatment Plant
The Western Treatment Plant (Werribee Sewage Farm) is Melbourne Water's lagoon-based sewage treatment plant at Werribee, Victoria, treating about half of Melbourne's sewage on 10,500 hectares, energy self-sufficient on biogas, and part of a Ramsar wetland with over 300 bird species.
Western Wall (הכותל המערבי)
The Western Wall (הכותל המערבי), also known as the Wailing Wall, is a retaining wall of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, the holiest site where Jews can pray.
Westfalenstadion
Westfalenstadion, also called Signal Iduna Park, is the football stadium in Dortmund, Germany, home of Borussia Dortmund since 1974. It is Germany's largest stadium.
Westfield London
Westfield London, also known as Westfield London Shopping Centre, is a large shopping center in Shepherd's Bush, west London, opened in 2008 at a cost of £1.6 billion.
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally the Collegiate Church of St Peter, is a Gothic church in London that has hosted every English and British coronation since 1066.
Westminster Bridge
Westminster Bridge is a road and foot bridge over the River Thames in central London, linking Westminster with Lambeth; the current bridge opened in 1862.
Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Cathedral, also called the Cathedral of Westminster, is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Westminster, built in red brick and Portland stone between 1895 and 1903.
Westtown Township, Pennsylvania
Westtown Township, Pennsylvania, is a township in Chester County in Philadelphia's western suburbs, established in 1685 and home to 11,154 people at the 2020 census.
Wewelsburg
Wewelsburg, also known as Wewelsburg Castle, is a triangular Renaissance castle near Büren in Germany, built 1603–1609 and later used by Heinrich Himmler as an SS meeting place.
Wharf
A wharf is a structure on a harbor shore or river or canal bank where ships moor to load and unload cargo, typically a fixed platform on pilings.
Whitby Abbey
Whitby Abbey is a ruined Benedictine monastery on the East Cliff above Whitby, North Yorkshire, founded in 657 by Abbess Hild and site of the Synod of Whitby in 664.
White House of the Confederacy
White House of the Confederacy: Richmond, Virginia mansion at 1201 East Clay Street, built 1818 for John Brockenbrough; Jefferson Davis's executive residence 1861-1865, later Union headquarters, school, and museum, now part of the American Civil War Museum.
White House State Ballroom
The White House State Ballroom is a roughly 90,000-square-foot event hall announced by President Trump in 2025, built on the site of the demolished East Wing.
White Sea–Baltic Canal (Беломорско-Балтийский канал)
The White Sea–Baltic Canal, known as the Stalin Canal until 1961, is a 227 km canal in Karelia, Russia, built by Gulag prisoners in 1931–1933.
Whites Bridge
Whites Bridge, alternatively White's Bridge, is a Brown truss covered bridge over the Flat River near Smyrna, Michigan, built in 1869 and destroyed by arson in 2013.
Wieringermeer
The Wieringermeer is a polder in the Dutch province of North Holland, reclaimed from the Zuiderzee between 1927 and 1930 as the first large polder of the Zuiderzee Works.
Wignacourt Aqueduct
The Wignacourt Aqueduct is a 17th-century aqueduct in Malta, built by the Order of Saint John between 1610 and 1615 to carry water to Valletta.
Wigry Monastery
Wigry Monastery (Klasztor Kamedułów w Wigrach) is a former Camaldolese hermit monastery on a peninsula of Lake Wigry in northeastern Poland, founded by King Jan II Kazimierz Waza in 1667.
Wigwam
A wigwam, also called a wickiup, is a domed dwelling built by Indigenous peoples of the northeastern North American woodlands from bent saplings covered with bark or mats.
William A. Clevenger
William Albert Clevenger (1919–2009) was an American geotechnical engineer who consulted on about 500 dam projects worldwide, coauthored the 1963 textbook Earth and Earth-Rock Dams, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
William E. Leonhard
William E. Leonhard (1914–2008) was an American civil engineer and construction executive who retired as an Air Force brigadier general in 1964, then led Parsons Corp. for 24 years.
William H. Hansmire
William H. Hansmire is an American tunnel engineer who spent about five decades at Parsons Brinckerhoff and WSP and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.
William McDonough
William McDonough is an architect and designer who, with Michael Braungart, developed the Cradle to Cradle philosophy of design, set out in their 2002 book of the same name.
William Mulholland
William Mulholland was an Irish-born, self-taught hydraulic engineer who led Los Angeles's water system from 1886 to 1928 and built the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct from the Owens Valley, completed in 1913.
William Thomas Holmes
William Thomas Holmes, known as Bill Holmes, is an American structural engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for seismic safety work.
William Zeckendorf
William Zeckendorf Sr. was an American real estate developer who, as head of Webb & Knapp, assembled the Manhattan site for the United Nations headquarters before his empire collapsed into bankruptcy in 1965.
Williamsburg Bridge
The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge across the East River connecting Manhattan's Lower East Side with Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Opened in 1903, its 1,600-foot main span was then the world's longest.