Architecture, buildings, and civil works

Gurdwara (ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ)

A gurdwara (ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ), also called Gurudwara Sahib, is a Sikh house of worship, literally "the Guru's door". It centers on the Guru Granth Sahib and serves the free langar meal to all.

Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur

Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, also called Kartarpur Sahib, is a Sikh gurdwara on the Ravi River in Punjab, Pakistan, built where Guru Nanak died in 1539.

Gurgānj Dam

The Gurgānj Dam was a medieval wooden dam on the Amu Darya below Gurgānj, today's Konye-Urgench in Turkmenistan, built for irrigation and destroyed by the Mongols in 1221.

Guri Dam

The Guri Dam, officially the Simón Bolívar hydroelectric plant, is a dam on Venezuela's Caroní River with about 10,000 MW capacity, built between 1963 and 1986.

Guruvayur Temple (ഗുരുവായൂർ ക്ഷേത്രം)

Guruvayur Temple (ഗുരുവായൂർ ക്ഷേത്രം), formally the Guruvayur Sree Krishna Temple, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Krishna as Guruvayurappan in Guruvayur, Kerala, one of the oldest and most visited pilgrimage centers in South India.

Gusset plate

A gusset plate is a steel plate that joins two or more structural members at a joint through bolts, rivets, or welds, as in truss bridges and braced buildings.

Gust loading factor

The gust loading factor is a wind engineering multiplier that converts mean wind force into an equivalent static design load, introduced by Alan G. Davenport in 1967.

Gustave Eiffel

Gustave Eiffel, born Alexandre Gustave Bonickhausen, was a French civil engineer famous for the Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Paris World's Fair, and the Statue of Liberty's inner structure.

Guthrie rolling bridge

The Guthrie rolling bridge, also known as a thrust bridge, is a retractable bridge patented by British engineer Charles T. Guthrie around 1869 for Victorian fortifications.

Guyed mast

A guyed mast, also called a guyed tower, is a tall slender steel structure stabilized by guy wires anchored to the ground, used for communications, broadcasting, and meteorology.

Gwalior Fort (ग्वालियर क़िला)

Gwalior Fort (ग्वालियर क़िला) is a hill fortress in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, rising about 100 meters above the city, which Babur called "the pearl amongst the fortresses of Hind".

Gwangan Bridge

Gwangan Bridge (광안대교), also called Gwangandaegyo and nicknamed the Diamond Bridge, is a 7.42 km two-story bridge in Busan, South Korea, opened in 2003 and curving past Gwangalli Beach.

Gwanghwamun

Gwanghwamun (광화문) is the main and southern gate of Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, built in 1395 under King Taejo and rebuilt in wood at its original site in 2010.

Gwembe Tonga resettlement

The Gwembe Tonga resettlement was the forced relocation of roughly 57,000 Gwembe Tonga people in 1958 to make way for the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River.

Gwrych Castle

Gwrych Castle is a Grade I listed castellated country house near Abergele in Conwy, north Wales, built between the 1810s and 1822 by Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh.

Gyanvapi Mosque (ज्ञानवापी मस्जिद)

Gyanvapi Mosque (ज्ञानवापी मस्जिद) is a mosque in Varanasi, India, attributed to Aurangzeb and built beside the Kashi Vishwanath Temple after the earlier temple was dismantled in 1669.

Gyeongbokgung

Gyeongbokgung, also known as Gyeongbokgung Palace, is the primary royal palace of the Joseon dynasty, built in Seoul in 1395 and still the largest of the city's five grand palaces.

Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda

The Gyeongcheonsa Pagoda is a ten-story marble Buddhist pagoda built in 1348 in Goryeo, now a National Treasure displayed in the National Museum of Korea.

Gyeongseong urban improvement project

The Gyeongseong urban improvement project (경성시구개수사업) was a road and street reorganization program the Japanese colonial Government-General launched in Seoul in 1912, reshaping the central grid over 25 years.

Ha-ha

A ha-ha, also known as a sunken fence or deer wall, is a hidden ditch and wall that keeps livestock out of a garden without interrupting the view.

Ha'penny Bridge

The Ha'penny Bridge, officially the Liffey Bridge (Droichead na Life), is a cast-iron pedestrian footbridge over the River Liffey in Dublin, opened in 1816 as Ireland's first iron bridge.

Haarlemmermeer Polder

The Haarlemmermeer Polder (Haarlemmermeerpolder) is an 18,000-hectare reclaimed lake bed between Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Leiden, drained by three steam pumping stations between 1849 and 1852 and now occupied by farms and Schiphol Airport.

Habana del Este (housing development)

Habana del Este is the area of eastern Havana, Cuba, across the bay from the old city, where the revolutionary government concentrated its earliest state housing programs.

Habitat 67

Habitat 67, Montréal (Cité du Havre, 2600 avenue Pierre-Dupuy): Moshe Safdie's 1965–1970 Expo 67 modular housing complex of 354 prefabricated concrete modules forming 158 apartments, post-tensioned, heritage-classed in Québec since 2009.

Habsburg Castle

Habsburg Castle, also known as Schloss Habsburg, is a castle above the Aare river in the Swiss canton of Aargau, built around 1020/1030 as the ancestral seat of the House of Habsburg.

Haddon Hall

Haddon Hall is a medieval and Tudor fortified manor house near Bakewell in Derbyshire, built by the Vernon family and the seat of the Dukes of Rutland.

Haditha Dam (سد حديثة)

Haditha Dam (سد حديثة), also called the Qadisiyah Dam, is an earthfill dam and 660 MW hydroelectric plant on the Euphrates River in western Iraq, completed in the late 1980s.

Oct 21, 2026

Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon, the Depositories for the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks

Janggyeong Panjeon (해인사 장경판전) at Haeinsa Temple, Mount Gayasan, South Korea: four 15th-century wooden depositories housing the 81,258-block Tripitaka Koreana, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995, preserved by natural ventilation.

Hafeez Contractor

Hafeez Contractor, full name Hafeez Sorab Contractor, is an Indian architect based in Mumbai who founded Architect Hafeez Contractor, one of India's largest firms, in 1982.