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Dams in Kyūshū and Okinawa
Dams in Kyūshū and Okinawa are the dams of Japan's Kyūshū island and Okinawa, built for flood control and stable water supplies, with Tsuruda Dam the flagship.
Dams in the Chūgoku region
Dams in the Chūgoku region are the major dams of western Honshu, Japan, built for flood control, water supply, and hydropower; the tallest is the 103 m Shin-Nariwagawa Dam.
Dams in the Kansai region
Dams in the Kansai region are the major dams of Japan's Kansai prefectures, including Amagase, Kawakami, and Miyagawa, which provide flood control, water supply to 14 million people, and hydropower.
Dams in the Kantō region
The dams in the Kantō region, concentrated on the Tone and Ara rivers, provide flood control, water supply, and hydropower for the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Dams in the Tōhoku region
The dams in the Tōhoku region of Japan form a dense network of large multipurpose dams, centered on the Kitakami River basin, built for flood control, hydropower, and water supply.
Dams of al-Andalus
The dams of al-Andalus, called al-súdd in Arabic (the source of Spanish azud), were barriers built in Islamic Iberia to divert or store river water for irrigation.
Dams of Turkey by province and river basin
Dams of Turkey by province and river basin is an overview of Turkey's dams, 992 storing 182.79 billion cubic meters across 25 river basins and its provinces.
Dan Tana's
Dan Tana's is a 17-table Italian restaurant on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, opened in 1964 by former soccer player Dan Tana and long a celebrity favorite.
Dancing House
The Dancing House (Tančící dům), also called Fred and Ginger, is a 1996 Prague office building by Vlado Milunić and Frank O. Gehry with two leaning towers.
Daniel B. Luten
Daniel B. Luten, or Daniel Benjamin Luten (1869–1946), was an American civil engineer and businessman who pioneered reinforced concrete arch bridge design through patented, licensed systems.
Daniel Burnham
Daniel Burnham (1846–1912) was an American architect and urban planner who directed the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, designed the Flatiron Building, and co-authored the 1909 Plan of Chicago.
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind (born 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born American architect known for the Jewish Museum Berlin and the World Trade Center master plan.
Danjiangkou Dam
The Danjiangkou Dam (丹江口大坝) is a dam on the Han River in Danjiangkou, Hubei, China, built in 1958–1973 and heightened from 2005 to 2013 to head the Middle Route of the South–North Water Transfer Project.
Danny
Danny (Danny House), Grade I listed Elizabethan brick mansion at Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex; built 1593-5 by George Goring, refronted 1728, hosted Lloyd George's War Cabinet armistice meeting in October 1918.
Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge
The Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge (丹昆特大桥) is a 164.851-kilometer railway viaduct in Jiangsu, China, and the world's longest bridge, carrying the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway since 2011.
Dara Dam
The Dara Dam was a sixth-century Roman arch dam built to control the Cordes River, which bisected the frontier city of Dara and repeatedly flooded it.
Dara Huang
Dara Huang is an American architect and designer, born in Taiwan, who founded the London firm Design Haus Liberty in 2013 and the furniture line Dara Maison.
Dartford Crossing
The Dartford Crossing is a road crossing of the River Thames between Kent and Essex, made up of two tunnels and the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge.
Dartington Hall
Dartington Hall, a Grade I listed medieval great house near Totnes, Devon, built 1388-1399 for John Holland, half brother of Richard II, and restored from 1925 by the Elmhirsts for the Dartington Experiment.
Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh
The Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh, also known as the Gupta Temple, is an early sixth-century Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu at Deogarh in Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
David Evans Enterprises, Inc.
David Evans Enterprises, Inc. is the Portland, Oregon parent company of engineering firm David Evans and Associates, founded in 1976 by David F. Evans and David H. Gould.
David Geffen Hall
David Geffen Hall, formerly Avery Fisher Hall and Philharmonic Hall, is a concert hall at Lincoln Center, New York City, home of the New York Philharmonic since 1962.
David Madson (architect)
David Madson, also known as David Jon Madson, was a Minneapolis-based architect whose master's thesis proposed an original AIDS memorial design. Andrew Cunanan murdered him in Minnesota in 1997.
David N. Kennedy
David N. Kennedy (1936-2007) was an American civil engineer who led the California Department of Water Resources from 1983 to 1998, longer than anyone, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
Davis L. Ford
Davis L. Ford (1937–2023) was an American environmental engineer in Austin, Texas, who worked on water pollution control and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
De aquaeductu
De aquaeductu, also known as De aquis urbis Romae, is an administrative report by Sextus Julius Frontinus, written around 97 CE as Rome's water official under Nerva, covering the nine aqueducts serving the city.
De re aedificatoria
De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building) is a ten-book Latin treatise on architecture by Leon Battista Alberti, written by 1452 and first printed in Florence in 1485.
Dead mall
A dead mall is a shopping mall, usually an enclosed postwar suburban center, that has declined into high vacancy, low sales, or closure as shoppers move elsewhere.
Dean E. Stephan
Dean E. Stephan is an American civil engineer and construction executive who led Charles Pankow Builders in California and served as American Concrete Institute president in 1994.
Decimomannu Roman bridge
The Decimomannu Roman bridge, or Ponte romano di Bingia Manna, is a ruined Roman bridge over the Rio Sesi at Decimomannu, Sardinia, on the Karalis-Sulci road; originally thirteen arches and about 160 m long, three arches survive.