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Church of St Mary (near Ipswich, 1033123)

Church of St Mary, Gislingham (NHLE 1033123), a Grade I listed Suffolk parish church near Ipswich: C14 chancel, late C15 aisle-less nave with double hammerbeam roof, red brick tower rebuilt 1638-40 after collapse in 1598.

Church of St Mary (near Norwich, 1049812)

Church of St Mary, Northrepps (list entry 1049812) is a medieval flint Grade I listed Church of England parish church in North Norfolk, near Norwich, listed 4 October 1960, with a four-stage tower named in wills of 1475-87.

Church of St Mary (near Norwich, 1050096)

Church of St Mary, Shelton, Norfolk (NHLE 1050096): Grade I listed parish church built circa 1487 by Sir Ralph Shelton, red brick with blue brick diapering, retaining a late 14th-century west tower; distinct from Norwich's St Mary the Less.

Church of St Mary (near Norwich, 1050185)

Church of St Mary, Pulham St Mary (NHLE 1050185), also St Mary's Church, is a Grade I listed Norfolk parish church, mainly 14th-15th century with a mid-13th-century chancel, restored 1886-7 by Bodley, with a c.1478 south porch Pevsner called 'something phenomenal'.

Church of St Mary (near Nottingham)

Church of St Mary (near Nottingham): several Nottinghamshire churches, chiefly St Mary the Virgin in the Lace Market, Nottingham's Grade I Perpendicular civic church, completed before 1475; also Grade I churches at Car Colston, Edwinstowe, and Attenborough.

Church of St Mary (near Wellingborough, 1040336)

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Knox Road, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire; Grade I listed Church of England church built 1908-1930 by Sir Ninian Comper, financed largely by the Misses Sharman, an Anglo-Catholic Major Parish Church in the diocese of Peterborough.

Church of St Mary (near Worthing)

Church of St Mary, Broadwater, Worthing: Grade I listed Anglican parish church, one of England's largest cruciform parish churches, with c1150-60 crossing tower, Domesday record, Hide family restorations, and de la Warre tombs.

Church of the Light

The Church of the Light (光の教会), or Ibaraki Kasugaoka Church, is a small Protestant chapel in Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan, designed by Tadao Ando and completed in 1989.

Church of the Saviour, Beijing

The Church of the Saviour, known as Xishiku Church or the North Church (北堂), is a Gothic Catholic cathedral in Beijing's Xicheng District, completed in 1888.

CIAM (architecture)

CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne, International Congresses of Modern Architecture) was an organization of avant-garde architects founded in Switzerland in 1928 and dissolved in 1959; it championed the Functional City and the Athens Charter.

Cincinnati Gardens

Cincinnati Gardens was an indoor arena in the Bond Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, opened in 1949, home to the NBA's Cincinnati Royals and Oscar Robertson, and demolished in 2018.

Cincinnati Subway

The Cincinnati Subway is an unfinished rapid transit tunnel in Cincinnati, Ohio, built in the 1920s in the old Miami and Erie Canal bed; no train has ever run through it.

Cinderella Castle

Cinderella Castle is a 189-foot fairytale castle at the entrance to Fantasyland in Florida's Magic Kingdom, completed in 1971 and inspired by Disney's 1950 animated film Cinderella.

Circadian lighting

Circadian lighting, also called integrative lighting, is the design of indoor light to support circadian rhythms, sleep, and alertness, delivering bright, melanopic-rich light by day and dim light at night.

Cistern

A cistern, also called an aljibe, is a waterproof container, usually underground, that stores water from rainfall, a spring, or an aqueduct, unlike a well that draws groundwater.

Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie

The Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie is a French science center in the Parc de la Villette, Paris, opened by President Mitterrand in March 1986.

Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris

The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP) is an international residential campus founded in 1921 in the 14th arrondissement, housing about 10,000 mostly foreign students, researchers, and artists.

CITIC Tower

CITIC Tower (中信大厦), known as China Zun (中国尊), is a 528-meter, 108-story office skyscraper in Beijing and the city's tallest, its curved profile imitating an ancient Chinese ritual wine vessel.

City Bridge

City Bridge is the name of several bridges, most prominently a Grade I listed stone bridge of 1813 over the River Itchen in Winchester, England.

City of Arts and Sciences

The City of Arts and Sciences (Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències) is a cultural complex in Valencia, Spain, designed mainly by Santiago Calatrava.

City Palace, Jaipur

City Palace, Jaipur is a palace complex in the walled city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II after he founded the city in 1727.

City Palace, Udaipur

The City Palace, Udaipur is a palace complex on the east bank of Lake Pichola in Rajasthan, India, built from 1553 as the residence of the Mewar dynasty.

CityCenter

CityCenter, also known as Aria Campus, is an 18-million-square-foot mixed-use resort, residential, and retail complex on the Las Vegas Strip, opened in phases in December 2009.

Ciudad Acuña

Ciudad Acuña, formerly Villa Acuña, is a Mexican city in Coahuila on the Rio Grande across from Del Rio, Texas, recorded at 160,225 inhabitants in the 2020 census.

Civic Arena (Pittsburgh)

The Civic Arena, later Mellon Arena, was a Pittsburgh arena with the world's first retractable stainless steel dome, home of the Penguins from 1961 until 2010.

Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a professional who plans, designs, and supervises construction and maintenance of infrastructure such as roads, bridges, tunnels, dams, and water supply systems, a profession distinct from military engineering since the 1700s.

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is the professional engineering discipline that designs and maintains the built environment, including roads, bridges, dams, airports, pipelines, and water and sewage systems.

Civil engineering and infrastructure repair in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

Civil engineering repair in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, which struck August 29, 2005, covered fixing breached levees, dewatering the city, and rebuilding flood defenses.

Civil engineering degrees and curricula

A civil engineering degree is a university program training students to design and manage infrastructure, combining math and science prerequisites, core courses, laboratories, and a final design project.

Civil engineering education

Civil engineering education is the formal preparation of engineers who plan, design, and construct infrastructure like roads, bridges, and water systems through accredited degrees, licensure, and early-career experience.