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Chimney
A chimney, also called a chimney stack or smokestack, is a vertical structure that vents smoke and combustion gases from a fire or furnace out of a building.
Chimney drain
A chimney drain is a vertical or near-vertical drainage element inside an embankment dam, running from abutment to abutment, that intercepts seepage and protects the core against internal erosion.
China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (中巴经济走廊)
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC, is a bilateral infrastructure program linking Kashgar in China with Pakistan's port of Gwadar, launched in 2013 as the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Chinampa
A chinampa is a small artificial island built on a shallow lake bed in Mesoamerica, used by the Aztecs to grow crops on raised beds.
Chinese architecture
Chinese architecture, also called the architecture of China, is a building tradition defined by timber-frame construction with interlocking dougong brackets, spanning Neolithic times to today.
Chinese Society of Civil Engineering
The Chinese Society of Civil Engineering (中国土木工程学会) is one of China's oldest engineering academic bodies, founded in 1912 by railway engineer Zhan Tianyou and renamed the China Civil Engineering Society in 1953.
Chiswick House
Chiswick House is a Grade I listed Palladian villa in west London, built between 1726 and 1729 by Lord Burlington with William Kent, a pioneer of neo-Palladian architecture in Britain.
Chittenden Locks
The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, known locally as the Ballard Locks, are navigation locks in Seattle completed in 1917 as part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
Chittor Fort (चित्तौड़ दुर्ग)
Chittor Fort (चित्तौड़ दुर्ग), also called Chittorgarh Fort, is a hill fort in Rajasthan, India, the capital of Mewar and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013.
Chloramination
Chloramination is a drinking water treatment that converts free chlorine to monochloramine by adding ammonia, producing a longer-lasting residual disinfectant that forms fewer regulated byproducts; about 30% of surveyed US systems use it.
Choosing by advantages
Choosing by Advantages (CBA) is a decision-making system, developed by civil engineer Jim Suhr, that bases decisions on the importance of advantages rather than the weights of factors.
Chottanikkara Temple
Chottanikkara Temple is a Hindu temple near Kochi in Kerala, India, dedicated to the goddess Bhagavathy, worshipped in three forms daily and famed for healing mental distress.
Chowmahalla Palace
Chowmahalla Palace, or Chowmahallat, is the palace complex of the Nizams of Hyderabad in Telangana, India, seat of the Asaf Jahi dynasty from the mid-18th century until 1950, now a museum.
Christ Cathedral (Garden Grove, California)
Christ Cathedral, formerly the Crystal Cathedral, is the Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Orange in Garden Grove, California; Philip Johnson's 1980 glass megachurch, bought in 2012 for $57.5 million and dedicated July 17, 2019 after a $72.3 million renovation.
Christ Church, Philadelphia
Christ Church is a historic Episcopal church in Philadelphia's Old City, founded in 1695, whose Georgian building was the place of worship of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
Christiansborg Palace
Christiansborg Palace, known in Danish as Christiansborg Slot, is a palace on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen that houses the Danish Parliament, the Prime Minister's Office, and the Supreme Court.
Christine Mary Keville
Christine Mary Keville is an American construction engineer who founded Keville Enterprises, one of the country's largest woman-owned construction management firms, and chairs the National Academy of Construction.
Christopher Wren
Christopher Wren (1632–1723) was an English architect, astronomer, and mathematician who rebuilt St Paul's Cathedral and 51 City churches after the Great Fire of London.
Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is a 77-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, completed in 1930 for automaker Walter P. Chrysler and briefly the world's tallest building.
Chungju Dam
Chungju Dam (충주댐) is South Korea's largest concrete gravity dam, on the Namhan River near Chungju, supplying water to Seoul and generating the country's largest hydropower capacity.
Chungking Mansions (重庆大厦)
Chungking Mansions (重庆大厦) is a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential building in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui, completed in 1961 and known for cheap guesthouses and global traders.
Church architecture
Church architecture, also called ecclesiastical architecture, is the design of buildings for Christian worship, covering plans, structural forms, and liturgical fittings from house churches to the basilica and modern buildings.
Church Hill Tunnel
Church Hill Tunnel was a 3,927-foot railroad tunnel in Richmond, Virginia, built in the 1870s and abandoned after its deadly 1925 collapse entombed a train.
Church House
Church House is the name of several English listed buildings, notably the Grade I former abbot's lodging and deanery at 16 College Green, Gloucester, and a Grade II cruck-framed former parish church house in Cockfield, Suffolk.
Church of Saint George, Lalibela
The Church of Saint George (Biete Ghiorgis, also Bete Giyorgis) is a rock-hewn church in Lalibela, Ethiopia, carved downward into volcanic rock as a Greek cross.
Church of Saint Martin at Moissac
Church of Saint Martin at Moissac (église Saint-Martin de Moissac), a former parish church in Tarn-et-Garonne, France, built inside a Gallo-Roman villa bathhouse with an exceptionally preserved hypocaust; classified Monument Historique in 1922 and again in 2023.
Church of Saint-Sulpice
The Church of Saint-Sulpice (Église Saint-Sulpice) is a large Roman Catholic parish church in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, built mainly from the 17th to the 19th century.
Church of St Mary (near Bath, 1035835)
Church of St Mary, Market Lavington, Wiltshire (Historic England list entry 1035835): Grade I Anglican parish church, late 13th-century chancel and nave, 15th-century tower, restored by Ewan Christian c1860 and in 1910.
Church of St Mary (near Ipswich, 1030273)
Church of St Mary, Ufford, Suffolk (Historic England list entry 1030273): Grade I listed parish church, St Mary of the Assumption, near Ipswich; late C12 to C15 fabric, decorated flint tower and porch, three-stage font canopy.
Church of St Mary (near Ipswich, 1031250)
Church of St Mary (list entry 1031250) is the Grade I listed medieval parish church of Troston, Suffolk, in the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich; C13 and later flint fabric, early C14 tower, medieval wall paintings, first listed 14 July 1955.