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Bridges and Tunnels (MTA)
Bridges and Tunnels, formally the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and part of the MTA, operates New York City's seven toll bridges, two tunnels, and the Battery Parking Garage.
Bridges over the Yangtze River
The bridges over the Yangtze River are its road and rail crossings, beginning with the Wuhan bridge of 1957; 162 were built in the following half century.
Bridgestone Arena
Bridgestone Arena, formerly the Nashville Arena and Sommet Center, is an indoor arena in downtown Nashville, opened in 1996 as the home of the NHL's Nashville Predators.
Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal is a 39-mile canal in North West England, opened in 1761 to carry coal from Worsley to Manchester and lock-free on its main line.
Bridgewater House
Bridgewater House names several British buildings: a Grade I London mansion (1854, Sir Charles Barry, for Lord Ellesmere) and a Grade II Manchester warehouse (1912, Harry S. Fairhurst), plus smaller namesakes.
Brihadisvara Temple
The Brihadisvara Temple, also called Brihadeeswara, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva at Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India, built of granite by the Chola emperor Rajaraja I and consecrated in 1010.
Brihadisvara Temple, Gangaikonda Cholapuram
Brihadisvara Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram, Tamil Nadu: Shiva temple completed 1035 by Rajendra I, part of the Great Living Chola Temples UNESCO site, with a 53-m curved vimana contrasting the straight Thanjavur tower.
Brill Building
The Brill Building is an eleven-story Art Deco office building at 1619 Broadway in Manhattan, where over 160 music businesses made it the center of American popular song.
Brine
Brine, also called salt brine, is a concentrated solution of salts in water, most often the hot, high-salinity byproduct of desalination; plants worldwide produce over 128 million cubic meters daily.
Brinsworth House
Brinsworth House is a care home in Twickenham, west London, run by the Royal Variety Charity for retired entertainers, known as the "Old Pros' Paradise".
Britannia Bridge
Britannia Bridge (Welsh: Pont Britannia) crosses the Menai Strait between Wales and Anglesey. Designed by Robert Stephenson as a tubular railway bridge, it opened in 1850.
British Columbia Toll Highways and Bridge Authority
The British Columbia Toll Highways and Bridge Authority was a British Columbia Crown corporation, created in 1953 under Premier W.A.C. Bennett to finance and operate toll bridges and highways.
British Dam Society
The British Dam Society is a British professional society for dam and reservoir engineering, founded in 1990 as a charity Associated Society of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
British Standard Pipe
British Standard Pipe (BSP) thread is an ISO-adopted family of screw threads for interconnecting and sealing pipe ends, dominant worldwide outside North America, where NPT is used.
British Tunnelling Society
The British Tunnelling Society (BTS) is a British charity and an Associated Society of the Institution of Civil Engineers, founded in 1971 to advance the art and science of tunnelling.
Bronx–Whitestone Bridge
The Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, also called the Whitestone Bridge, is a suspension bridge spanning the East River between Queens and the Bronx in New York City, opened in 1939.
Brookfield Place (New York City)
Brookfield Place, originally the World Financial Center, is a four-tower office and retail complex on the Hudson River in Battery Park City, Manhattan, designed by Cesar Pelli and built from 1983 to 1988.
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge, also called the East River Bridge, is a suspension bridge connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn across the East River in New York City, opened in 1883.
Brooklyn Tower
Brooklyn Tower, also called 9 DeKalb Avenue or Flatbush Tower, is a 93-story, 1,066-foot residential supertall by SHoP Architects and JDS Development, Brooklyn's tallest building, completed 2023 atop the 1908 Dime Savings Bank.
Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel
The Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, officially the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, carries four lanes of traffic under the East River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, and opened in 1950.
Broughton Hall, North Yorkshire
Broughton Hall, near Skipton, North Yorkshire, is a Grade I listed Tempest family mansion with a 1597 core, Nesfield gardens, and a 3,000-acre estate now run as Broughton Sanctuary.
Brownstone
Brownstone is a reddish-brown sandstone colored by iron oxide; in American usage it also names the row houses built of it across East Coast cities in the late nineteenth century.
Brumadinho dam disaster
The Brumadinho dam disaster was the January 2019 collapse of a Vale iron ore tailings dam in Minas Gerais, Brazil, killing 272 people and polluting the Paraopeba River.
Brusio spiral viaduct
The Brusio spiral viaduct is a nine-arch stone railway viaduct of 1908 on the Bernina line in Switzerland, where the track loops 360° over itself.
Brussels Town Hall
The Brussels Town Hall (Stadhuis van Brussel; Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles) is a Brabantine Gothic building with a 96-meter spire, begun in 1402 on the Grand-Place in Brussels, Belgium.
Brutalism
Brutalism is an architectural style that emerged in postwar Europe, defined by rigid geometry, heavy massing, and exposed raw concrete, practiced from the mid-1950s until the 1970s.
Brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture, also known as New Brutalism, is a style of the late 1950s through the 1970s identified by exposed concrete, massive forms, and openly displayed structure.
BS 5400
BS 5400 is a multi-part British Standard, Steel, concrete and composite bridges, setting codes of practice for bridge design, loads, materials, bearings, and fatigue in the UK.
BS 5950
BS 5950 is a multi-part British Standard, Structural use of steelwork in building, covering design, construction, and fire protection of steel structures; withdrawn in 2010 for Eurocode 3.
BS 8110
BS 8110, titled Structural use of concrete, was a British Standard code of practice for designing reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, used from 1985 until 2010.