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Williamson Tunnels
The Williamson Tunnels are a labyrinth of brick-arched and sandstone-vaulted chambers built under Liverpool's Edge Hill district by tobacco merchant Joseph Williamson between 1810 and 1840.
Willis Tower
Willis Tower, known until 2009 as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, completed in 1973 and the world's tallest building for roughly 25 years.
Willows Inn
The Willows Inn was a resort and tasting-menu restaurant on Lummi Island, Washington, run by chef Blaine Wetzel from 2010 until its 2022 closure after wage-theft lawsuits.
Wilshire Grand Center
Wilshire Grand Center, also known as Wilshire Grand Tower, is a 73-story, 1,100-foot skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, opened in 2017 as the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.
Wilton House
Wilton House is a Grade I listed country house at Wilton, Wiltshire, near Salisbury, the seat of the Earls of Pembroke and a popular filming location.
Winchester Cathedral
Winchester Cathedral is the Church of England cathedral in Winchester, Hampshire, begun in 1079, with the longest Gothic nave in Europe and Jane Austen's grave.
Winchester Mystery House
The Winchester Mystery House, or Winchester Mansion, is a Victorian mansion in San Jose, California, built and continually remodeled by heiress Sarah Winchester from 1886 until 1922.
Wind bracing
Wind bracing is the system of secondary members in a bridge superstructure, such as cross-frames, diaphragms, and lateral diagonal bracing, that stabilizes the structure against wind and torsional loads.
Wind pump
Wind pump (windpump): a wind-driven water-lifting machine, usually a multibladed steel rotor on a tower driving a piston pump in a well below; used to dewater the Netherlands from the 13th century, mass-produced in the United States from the 1860s, with over one million still in use.
Windcatcher
A windcatcher, known in Persian as badgir and in Egypt as malqaf, is a tower that channels wind into buildings for passive cooling, especially in Yazd, Iran.
Window
A window is a building component of a frame and one or more panes of glazing, fitted into a wall or roof opening to admit light and often air.
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in Berkshire, England, founded by William the Conqueror around 1070 and the largest inhabited castle in the world.
Wingspread
Wingspread is a large Prairie-style residence in Wind Point, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1939 for Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr. of S.C. Johnson & Son.
Winter Palace (Зимний дворец)
The Winter Palace (Зимний дворец) is the former residence of the Russian emperors in Saint Petersburg, built 1754–1762 and now the main building of the Hermitage Museum.
Winter Palace Hotel
The Winter Palace Hotel, also known as the Sofitel Winter Palace, is a historic Edwardian hotel on the Nile corniche in Luxor, Egypt, opened in 1907.
Witanhurst
Witanhurst, also known as Witanhurst House, is a Grade II listed mansion in Highgate, London, built 1913 to 1920 and second only to Buckingham Palace in size.
Witch window
Witch window, also called Vermont window, coffin window, or lazy window: a standard double-hung window installed at an angle parallel to the roof planes in a gable-end wall, found chiefly in 19th-century Vermont farmhouses for cheap light and ventilation.
Woburn Abbey
Woburn Abbey is a Grade I listed country house in Bedfordshire, England, seat of the Dukes of Bedford since 1547, closed for restoration since 2019.
Wolf Creek Dam
Wolf Creek Dam is a Corps of Engineers dam on the Cumberland River near Jamestown, Kentucky, completed in 1952, impounding Lake Cumberland for flood control and hydropower.
Wolf's Lair (Los Angeles)
Wolf's Lair is a Norman Revival castle-style residence built in 1927 by Hollywoodland developer L. Milton Wolf in Beachwood Canyon, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, overlooking the Hollywood Sign.
Wood flooring
Wood flooring, also called hardwood flooring, is flooring whose top wearable surface is real wood, sold as solid or engineered boards in strip, plank, and parquet formats.
Wood House
Wood House, South Tawton, Devon: Arts and Crafts country house (1899-1905) by Dan Gibson for William Lethbridge, with Grade I gardens by Thomas Mawson; also other listed buildings of the same name.
Woodbury Common Premium Outlets
Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, also called Woodbury Commons, is an upscale outlet center in Central Valley, New York, about 50 miles north of New York City.
Woodhead Tunnel
The Woodhead Tunnels are three railway tunnels under the Pennine moors between Woodhead and Dunford Bridge, on the Manchester to Sheffield route from 1845 until the line closed in 1981.
Woodrow Wilson Bridge
The Woodrow Wilson Bridge, formally the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge, carries Interstate 95 and the Capital Beltway over the Potomac River between Alexandria, Virginia, and Prince George's County, Maryland.
Woolwich foot tunnel
The Woolwich foot tunnel is a 504-meter pedestrian tunnel beneath the Thames in London, opened in 1912 to connect Woolwich with North Woolwich through Grade II listed red-brick entrance rotundas.
Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building, also known as Woolworth Tower, is a 792-foot neo-Gothic skyscraper at 233 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, the world's tallest building from 1913 to 1930.
Work in compressed air
Work in compressed air, or hyperbaric work, is construction labor in chambers pressurized above atmospheric to hold back groundwater in soft-ground tunnels and caissons, first patented in 1830.
Workhouse
A workhouse was a British and Irish institution where the poor received food and shelter under a strict regime, central to the Poor Law until 1948.
Working drawing
A working drawing is a technical drawing in a set of construction documents that gives contractors the dimensions, locations, and assembly details needed to build the design.