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Dome of the Rock (قبة الصخرة)
The Dome of the Rock (قبة الصخرة) is an Islamic shrine in Jerusalem, begun in 691–692 by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik over a sacred rock on the Temple Mount.
Dominick M. Servedio
Dominick M. Servedio is an American civil engineer who led STV Group as chairman and CEO and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Dominion Bridge Company
The Dominion Bridge Company was a Canadian heavy engineering company, chartered in 1882, that built landmark bridges and steel buildings across Canada before going bankrupt in 1998.
Domino's Farms
Domino's Farms is a Prairie School-style office park in Ann Arbor Township, Michigan, designed by Gunnar Birkerts and built from 1984 for Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan.
Domus (magazine)
Domus is an Italian monthly magazine of architecture, design, and art, founded in Milan in 1928 by Gio Ponti, bilingual in Italian and English and distributed in 89 countries.
Domus Aurea
The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was Nero's vast palace complex in Rome, begun after the great fire of 64 AD and demolished after his death in 68 AD.
Domus Flavia
Domus Flavia: public wing of Emperor Domitian's Flavian Palace on Rome's Palatine Hill, completed 92 AD by architect Rabirius, with peristyle, octagonal fountain, Aula Regia throne room, Basilica, Lararium, and Cenatio Iovis.
Domus Sanctae Marthae
Domus Sanctae Marthae, also known as Casa Santa Marta, is a five-story Vatican guesthouse completed in 1996, where Pope Francis lived from 2013 until his death in 2025.
Donald O. Dusenberry
Donald O. "Don" Dusenberry is an American structural and forensic engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for his work on structural design load standards.
Donghai Bridge
Donghai Bridge (东海大桥, East Sea Bridge) is a 32.5 km sea-crossing expressway bridge in China, opened in 2005 as the only road link between Shanghai and Yangshan Port.
Door
A door is a movable barrier, usually hinged or sliding, that closes an opening in a wall or vehicle, serving security, privacy, insulation, and access.
Door closer
A door closer is a spring-and-hydraulic device that returns an opened door to its closed position without slamming, and is required on self-closing fire doors.
Door frame
A door frame is the assembly of vertical jambs and a horizontal lintel that surrounds a doorway, holds the door on its hinges, and closes the gap to the wall.
Doric order
The Doric order, also called Greek Doric, is the oldest of the classical architectural orders of ancient Greece, known for plain, sturdy columns without bases.
Dorman Long
Dorman Long was a British iron and steel company of Middlesbrough, England, incorporated in 1889, which fabricated the steel for the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Tyne Bridge.
Dormer
A dormer, also called a dormer window, is a roofed vertical projection from the slope of a pitched roof, built to add space and daylight to an attic.
Dormition Cathedral, Moscow
Dormition Cathedral (Uspensky Sobor, Успенский собор) is the five-domed main church of the Moscow Kremlin, built 1475–1479 by Aristotele Fioravanti for Ivan III, modeled on Vladimir's Assumption Cathedral, consecrated 1479, and used for coronations.
Dortmund-Ems Canal
The Dortmund-Ems Canal (German: Dortmund-Ems-Kanal) is a federal inland waterway in Germany linking Dortmund with the North Sea port of Emden, opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1899.
Double coding
Double coding is a concept in architectural theory introduced by Charles Jencks in 1977, holding that a postmodern building addresses experts and the general public at once.
Double shield TBM
A double shield TBM (DS TBM) is a hard-rock tunnel boring machine combining an open gripper TBM and a single-shield TBM, switching thrust modes as ground conditions change.
Double-curvature arch dam
A double-curvature arch dam is a concrete arch dam curved both horizontally and vertically into a bowl shape, which lets designers build it thinner than other concrete dams.
Double-shield tunnel boring machine
A double-shield tunnel boring machine is a hard-rock TBM whose telescopic two-shield body lets boring and segmental lining erection proceed simultaneously, patented by SELI and Robbins in 1971.
Double-skin facade
A double-skin facade (DSF) is a building envelope with two layers of glazing separated by a ventilated cavity that buffers solar heat, noise, and ventilation before air reaches the interior.
Douglas C. Moorhouse
Douglas Cecil Moorhouse (1926–2012) was an American civil engineer who led the consulting firm Woodward-Clyde for decades, worked on the Trans-Alaska pipeline, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1982.
Douglas M. Owen
Douglas M. Owen is an American civil and environmental engineer specializing in drinking water treatment and potable water reuse, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Doune Castle
Doune Castle is a late 14th-century courtyard castle at Doune in Stirlingshire, Scotland, built for Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, who ruled Scotland as regent.
Douro hydroelectric cascade
The Douro hydroelectric cascade is the chain of run-of-river dams Portugal built on the Douro river, generating power and lifting vessels through locks between Porto and Spain.
Dover Castle
Dover Castle is a medieval royal fortress in Kent, England, on the chalk cliffs above Dover, the largest castle in England by area, garrisoned continuously until 1958.
Dowel-laminated timber
Dowel-laminated timber (DLT), also known as Brettstapel or DowelLam, is an all-wood mass timber panel in which hardwood dowels lock softwood boards together without metal fasteners or adhesives.
Dower House
Dower House: name shared by several English listed buildings, chiefly the Grade I James Wyatt house (1796-1816) at Dodington Park, South Gloucestershire, originally a dairy and Roman-style bath house; other Dower Houses in Weybridge, Quatt, Melbourne, and Crawley.