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Chapel of the Holy Cross, Sedona
The Chapel of the Holy Cross is a Roman Catholic chapel built in 1956 into a red sandstone butte near Sedona, Arizona, designed by Anshen & Allen.
Chapter house
A chapter house, or chapter room, is the meeting room of a monastery or cathedral chapter; in England the polygonal thirteenth-century examples at Westminster and Salisbury are celebrated Gothic works.
Chapultepec Castle
Chapultepec Castle (Castillo de Chapultepec) is a hilltop palace in Mexico City, begun in 1785, stormed by US forces in 1847, and home to the National Museum of History since 1944.
Charles A. Kircher
Charles A. Kircher is an American earthquake engineer who founded Kircher & Associates in Palo Alto and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Charles Brian Crouse
Charles Brian Crouse is an American earthquake engineer and engineering seismologist, a principal engineer at AECOM in Seattle who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Charles Bridge
Charles Bridge (Karlův most) is a medieval stone arch bridge crossing the Vltava in Prague, laid by Charles IV in 1357 and completed in the early 15th century.
Charles Garnier (architect)
Charles Garnier, born Jean-Louis-Charles Garnier, was a French architect who won the 1861 competition for the new Paris opera house and spent fourteen years building the Palais Garnier.
Charles J. Pankow
Charles J. Pankow (1923–2004) was an American civil engineer who founded Charles Pankow Builders and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Charles Joseph Minard
Charles Joseph Minard was a French civil engineer who became a pioneer of statistical graphics, best known for his 1869 flow map of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign.
Charles Pankow Builders
Charles Pankow Builders was an American construction firm founded by civil engineer Charles Pankow in California in 1963, known for pioneering design-build delivery and precast concrete commercial construction.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, often called Rennie Mackintosh, was a Scottish architect and designer of the Glasgow Style, best known for the Glasgow School of Art and the Hill House.
Charrette
A charrette is an intensive multi-day collaborative design workshop where community members, decision makers, and experts co-develop solutions to planning problems; the French word for cart comes from 19th-century École des Beaux-Arts deadlines.
Chartered Engineer
Chartered Engineer (CEng) is a protected professional title awarded by the UK Engineering Council, the highest of its four registration titles, assessed by peer review against UK-SPEC.
Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES) is a British professional body and educational charity representing civil engineering surveyors, founded in 1969 and granted a royal charter in 2009.
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral, also known as Notre-Dame de Chartres, is the medieval Gothic cathedral of Chartres, France, rebuilt after a 1194 fire and famed for its stained glass.
Chase Center
Chase Center, also known as Mission Bay Arena, is an 18,064-seat privately financed arena in San Francisco's Mission Bay, opened in 2019 and home to the Golden State Warriors.
Chashma Barrage
Chashma Barrage is a barrage-cum-reservoir on the Indus River near Chashma village in Mianwali District, Punjab, Pakistan, completed in 1971 and housing a 184 MW hydropower station.
Château
A château is a French seigneurial or royal residence, or a large noble country house, derived from Latin castellum; the medieval château fort was a fortified feudal dwelling.
Château d'Amboise
The Château d'Amboise is a French royal castle overlooking the Loire river at Amboise, a residence of the Valois kings and Leonardo da Vinci's burial place.
Château d'If
The Château d'If is a 16th-century fortress on an islet off Marseille, built under Francis I and later a state prison, famed through Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo.
Château de Chambord
Château de Chambord is a French Renaissance château in the Loire Valley, begun in 1519 by King François I and known for its double helix staircase.
Château de Chantilly
The Château de Chantilly is a French princely château north of Paris, owned by the Institut de France since 1886 and home to the Musée Condé.
Château de Chenonceau
Château de Chenonceau is a French Renaissance château spanning the river Cher in the Loire Valley, built in the 16th century and known as the Ladies' Château.
Château de Chillon
Château de Chillon is a medieval castle on a rocky island in Lake Geneva at Veytaux, Switzerland, first recorded in 1150 under the counts of Savoy.
Château de la Motte-Husson
The Château de la Motte-Husson is a nineteenth-century Neo-Renaissance château in Martigné-sur-Mayenne, France, built between 1868 and 1874, known since 2015 as the home of Dick Strawbridge and Angel Adoree.
Château de Pierrefonds
The Château de Pierrefonds is a large fortified castle in the Oise, north-east of Paris, built for Louis d'Orléans in 1397 and dismantled by Louis XIII in 1617.
Château de Vincennes
The Château de Vincennes is a royal fortress east of Paris with the tallest keep in Europe, a residence of French kings from the 14th century onward.
Château des Ducs de Bretagne
The Château des Ducs de Bretagne is a fifteenth-century castle in Nantes, France, built by Duke Francis II of Brittany, housing the city's history museum since 2007.
Château Frontenac
The Château Frontenac, also known as the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, is a grand railway hotel in Quebec City, opened in 1893 on a cliff above the St. Lawrence River.
Château Gaillard
Château Gaillard is a ruined medieval fortress at Les Andelys in Normandy, France, built by Richard the Lionheart between 1196 and 1198 to guard the Seine.