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Herbert N. Straus House
Herbert N. Straus House, also called Nine East 71st Street or the Epstein townhouse, is a 1930 Horace Trumbauer French neoclassical limestone mansion in Manhattan, built for a Macy's heir, later a hospital annex, school, Leslie Wexner's home, and Jeffrey Epstein's residence until 2019.
Heritage designation of canals and waterways
Heritage designation of canals and waterways is the protection of historic canals through UK listing and scheduling, UNESCO World Heritage inscription, US historic districts, and Canadian permit rules.
Heritage documentation standards for engineering works
Heritage documentation standards for engineering works are the Secretary of the Interior's standards governing measured drawings, photographs, and histories for the Library of Congress's HABS/HAER collection.
Heritage-listed bridges in Australia
Heritage-listed bridges in Australia are spans entered on national, state, or territory heritage registers for cultural significance, including the convict-built Richmond Bridge of 1823 and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Heron Tower
Heron Tower, often called Salesforce Tower after its largest tenant, is a 46-storey office skyscraper at 110 Bishopsgate in the City of London, completed in 2011 as the City's tallest building.
Herrenknecht
Herrenknecht AG is a German family-owned company in Schwanau, Baden-Württemberg, founded by Martin Herrenknecht in 1977, that builds tunnel boring machines; it holds an estimated 19 percent share of the global TBM market.
Herzog & de Meuron
Herzog & de Meuron is a Swiss architecture practice founded in Basel in 1978 by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, winners of the 2001 Pritzker Prize.
Hesco bastion
The Hesco bastion, formally the Concertainer, is a foldable steel-mesh barrier filled with soil or sand, used for flood control, erosion control, and military fortification.
Het Steen
Het Steen is a medieval fortress on the Scheldt waterfront in Antwerp, Belgium, the city's oldest preserved building, which served as a prison for over five centuries.
Heungnyunsa
Heungnyunsa (흥륜사, 興輪寺) was a Buddhist temple in Gyeongju, the first founded in Silla and one of its seven sacred temples, abandoned in the early Joseon period.
Hever Castle
Hever Castle is a double-moated fortified manor in the Eden valley in Kent, a childhood home of Anne Boleyn, now a privately owned Grade I listed visitor attraction.
Heydar Aliyev Center
The Heydar Aliyev Center is a cultural center in Baku, Azerbaijan, housed in a free-form building with no straight lines, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and opened in 2012.
Hickory Hill (McLean, Virginia)
Hickory Hill is a historic white-brick Georgian mansion in McLean, Virginia, best known as the home of Robert and Ethel Kennedy from the late 1950s to 2009.
Hidimba Devi Temple
Hidimba Devi Temple, also known as Hadimba or Dhoongri Temple, is a wooden cave temple dedicated to the goddess Hidimba in a deodar forest at Manali, Himachal Pradesh.
Hie Shrine
Hie Shrine (日枝神社, Hie-jinja) is a major Shinto shrine in Nagatacho, Tokyo, founded in 1478 as the guardian shrine of Edo Castle and known for its Sanno Matsuri.
High Gothic
High Gothic is the mature phase of Gothic architecture, roughly 1194 to the late 13th century, whose canonical monuments are the French cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Amiens.
High Island Reservoir (万宜水库)
High Island Reservoir (万宜水库) is Hong Kong's largest impounding reservoir, holding 281 million cubic meters of water and formed by damming the Kwun Mun Channel in Sai Kung; its East Dam is a celebrated geological site.
High Level Bridge, River Tyne
The High Level Bridge is a road and railway bridge over the River Tyne between Newcastle and Gateshead, opened in 1849 and designed by Robert Stephenson.
High Roller (Ferris wheel)
The High Roller is a 550-foot-tall observation wheel at The LINQ on the Las Vegas Strip, opened in 2014 as the world's tallest until 2021.
High-damping rubber bearing
A high-damping rubber bearing is a seismic isolation device made of rubber and steel layers, with the rubber formulated to dissipate earthquake energy without separate dampers.
High-performance concrete
High-performance concrete (HPC) is concrete meeting special performance requirements like high strength or low permeability, usually through a reduced water-to-cement ratio and materials such as silica fume.
High-tech architecture
High-tech architecture, also known as Structural Expressionism, is a style that emerged in 1970s Britain and celebrates technology by exposing a building's structure and mechanical services on its exterior.
Highclere Castle
Highclere Castle is a Grade I listed country house in Hampshire, England, seat of the Earl of Carnarvon, remodeled by Sir Charles Barry from 1839 to 1842.
Highgrove House
Highgrove House is a Grade II listed country house near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, bought by the Duchy of Cornwall in 1980 as the country home of King Charles III, whose organic gardens are open to the public.
Highline Canal
The Highline Canal, often styled High Line Canal, is a 71-mile irrigation canal in the Denver, Colorado area, built 1879–1883 and now becoming a regional trail.
Hillsborough County Courthouse
The Hillsborough County Courthouse is the courthouse of Hillsborough County, Florida, housed since 2004 in the George E. Edgecomb Courthouse in downtown Tampa, the latest in a line of at least six buildings since 1834.
Hilton Hotels & Resorts
Hilton Hotels & Resorts, the flagship full-service hotel brand of Hilton Worldwide, traces its start to Conrad Hilton's first hotel, opened in Dallas, Texas, in 1925.
Himeji Castle (姫路城)
Himeji Castle (姫路城), also known as Himeji-jo or the White Heron Castle for its white plastered walls, is a large early 17th-century Japanese castle in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, considered Japan's finest surviving castle.
Hindu temple
A Hindu temple, often called a mandir, is a sacred structure built as the earthly seat of a deity, where worshipers connect with the gods through worship and offering.
Hinkley groundwater contamination
Hinkley groundwater contamination is a plume of hexavalent chromium beneath Hinkley, California, caused by PG&E discharging cooling tower wastewater into unlined ponds from 1952 to 1972.