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Bolshoy Obukhovsky Bridge (Большой Обуховский мост)
The Bolshoy Obukhovsky Bridge (Большой Обуховский мост) is a cable-stayed road bridge over the Neva in St Petersburg, the city's only fixed, non-drawbridge crossing, opened in 2004 and 2007.
Bonded warehouse
A bonded warehouse, also called a bond store, is a customs-supervised building where imported goods are stored without payment of duty until they are withdrawn or re-exported.
Bongeunsa
Bongeunsa (봉은사) is a Buddhist temple of the Jogye Order in Gangnam, Seoul, across from COEX, traditionally founded in 794 and known for its templestay program.
Bonnet Carré Spillway
The Bonnet Carré Spillway is a flood-control structure in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, that diverts Mississippi River floodwater into Lake Pontchartrain to protect New Orleans.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton is an American technology and consulting company providing services primarily to the US government. Founded in 1914 in Chicago, it is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.
Bored pile
A bored pile, also known in North America as a drilled shaft or drilled pier, is a deep foundation made by drilling a hole and filling it with cast-in-place reinforced concrete.
Borie
A borie is a traditional dry-stone hut of Provence in southeastern France, built without mortar and roofed with a corbelled vault, serving farmers and shepherds as a seasonal shelter.
Boro Maa Kali Temple, Naihati
Boro Maa Kali Temple (বড় মা মন্দির), Naihati, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal: Hindu Kali temple founded about 1923 by Bhavesh Chakraborty, famed for its 21–22-foot Kali image, Kali Puja crowds, and the slogan "Boroma shobar".
Borobudur
Borobudur (Candi Borobudur) is an eighth- and ninth-century Buddhist stupa complex in Central Java, Indonesia, built by the Syailendra dynasty and listed as a World Heritage Site in 1991.
Borough Market
Borough Market is a food market in Southwark, London, near London Bridge, trading on its current site since 1756 and run as a charitable trust.
Bosco Verticale
Bosco Verticale, or Vertical Forest, is a pair of residential towers in Milan, Italy, designed by Boeri Studio, whose facades carry about 800 trees and 20,000 plants.
Boskalis
Boskalis is a Dutch dredging and marine services company with over 100 years of experience, known for land reclamation, coastal defense, and heavy marine transport projects.
Bosphorus Bridge
The Bosphorus Bridge, officially the 15 July Martyrs Bridge, is a suspension bridge in Istanbul, opened in 1973 as the first spanning Europe and Asia.
Boston City Hall
Boston City Hall, completed in 1968, houses Boston's municipal government and is a leading American example of Brutalist architecture, designated a Boston Landmark in December 2024.
Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), founded 1963 by Bruce Henderson, Boston-headquartered private management consultancy; 33,500 employees, $14.4B firm-reported revenue, 40% from tech and AI, CEO Christoph Schweizer.
Bothy
A bothy is a simple unlocked shelter, usually an old cottage in remote Scotland or Wales, offering free, unbookable lodging with minimal facilities for walkers.
Bottom outlet (dam)
A bottom outlet, also called a low-level outlet, is a gated conduit through a dam near the reservoir base, used for emergency drawdown, water level control, and sediment flushing.
Bottom-up cut-and-cover construction
Bottom-up cut-and-cover construction is a tunnelling method in which a full-depth trench is opened, the tunnel is built from the floor upward, and the trench is backfilled.
Boudoir
A boudoir is a small, elegantly furnished private room adjoining a lady's bedroom, originating in 18th-century French domestic architecture, where the mistress of the house withdrew to be alone, dress, or converse with intimates.
Boulder Canyon Project
The Boulder Canyon Project is the United States federal undertaking authorized in 1928 to build Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the All-American Canal for irrigation, flood control, and power.
Bourges Cathedral
Bourges Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges) is a Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral in Bourges, France, begun in 1195 and on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1992.
Boussinesq theory (pavement analysis)
Boussinesq theory in pavement analysis applies Boussinesq's 1885 elastic half-space equations, giving stresses, strains, and deflections beneath a surface load; it treats the pavement and subgrade as one layer.
Boutikos potamos
Boutikos potamos (Βουτικός ποταμός), the Butic Canal, was a Roman-era artificial watercourse crossing the Nile Delta west to east, about 185–200 km, named only in Ptolemy's Geography and never verified by excavation.
Box girder bridge
A box girder bridge is a bridge whose deck is carried by one or more girders with a hollow box-shaped cross-section, first used on the Britannia Bridge in 1850.
Box Tunnel
Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in Wiltshire, England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway, opened in 1841 as the world's longest railway tunnel.
Bradbury Building
The Bradbury Building is an 1893 five-story office building at 304 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, known for its skylit atrium of glazed brick and open-cage elevators.
Brahma Temple, Pushkar
The Brahma Temple, Pushkar (Jagatpita Brahma Mandir) is a Hindu temple in Pushkar, Rajasthan, dedicated to the creator god Brahma and standing near Pushkar Lake.
Brahmaputra dam disputes
The Brahmaputra dam disputes are disagreements among China, India, and Bangladesh over hydropower dams and water diversion on the Brahmaputra River, with no binding water-sharing treaty.
Bramlette McClelland
Bramlette McClelland, born Thomas Bramlette McClelland, was an American geotechnical engineer in Houston who performed the first offshore site investigation in 1947, founded McClelland Engineers, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.
Bran Castle
Bran Castle (Törcsvár) is a medieval fortress near Brașov in Transylvania, Romania, built in 1377 to guard the Bran Pass, now Romania's most visited attraction as "Dracula's Castle".