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ISO 19650
ISO 19650 is a series of international standards defining collaborative information management for built assets using building information modeling (BIM), internationalized from the United Kingdom's BS 1192 and PAS 1192 standards.
Isokon Flats
Isokon Flats (Lawn Road Flats, Isokon Building), a 1934 Grade I listed reinforced-concrete block of 36 flats by Wells Coates in Belsize Park, London, home to Bauhaus figures Gropius, Breuer, and Moholy-Nagy and Agatha Christie.
Istana Negara, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim
Istana Negara, the National Palace of Malaysia, is the official Kuala Lumpur residence of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the head of state, replacing the old palace in 2011.
Istana Nurul Iman (ايستان نور الإيمان)
Istana Nurul Iman (ايستان نور الإيمان) is the official residence of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah in Brunei, the world's largest residential palace with 1,788 rooms, completed in 1984.
Istana, Singapore
The Istana is the official residence and office of the President of Singapore, on Orchard Road. Completed in 1869 as Government House, it hosts state functions and public Open Houses.
Istanbul Canal
The Istanbul Canal (Kanal İstanbul) is a planned 45 km ship canal in Turkey connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, announced by Erdoğan in 2011.
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul Technical University (İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, İTÜ), Turkey's first technical university, founded 1773 as the Imperial School of Naval Engineering; 13 faculties, 5 campuses, about 37,000 students, QS 2027 rank #=279.
Isthmian Canal Commission
The Isthmian Canal Commission (1904–1914) was the United States government body, appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, that built the Panama Canal and governed the Canal Zone until 1914.
Istiqlal Mosque
Istiqlal Mosque (Masjid Istiqlal) is the national mosque of Indonesia in central Jakarta, the largest in Southeast Asia, built as thanksgiving for independence and opened in 1978.
Itai-itai disease (イタイイタイ病)
Itai-itai disease (イタイイタイ病), literally "ouch-ouch" disease, is chronic cadmium poisoning from polluted river water that caused severe bone pain in Toyama, Japan, recognized as a pollution disease in 1968.
Itaipu Dam
Itaipu Dam, also known as Itaipú, is a 14,000 MW hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River at the Brazil–Paraguay border, the single plant that has generated the most energy in history since 1984.
Italianate architecture
Italianate architecture, also called the Italian Villa or Victorian Italianate style, is a 19th-century revival of Italian villa forms, dominant in America from the 1850s to the 1880s and marked by low-pitched roofs with bracketed eaves.
Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社)
Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社, Itsukushima-jinja) is a Shinto shrine on the island of Miyajima in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, known for its vermilion buildings and torii gate standing over the sea.
Iustiniani Pons
Iustiniani Pons (Bridge of Justinian, Sangarius Bridge, Turkish Justinianos Köprüsü) is a Late Roman arched bridge built by Emperor Justinian I across the Sangarius River at Serdivan, Sakarya, Turkey, with an original span of about 430 m.
Iveria
Iveria (ივერია) is Tbilisi's 1967 Soviet high-rise hotel, later a refugee shelter, rebuilt as the Radisson Blu Iveria in 2009 and home to Casino Iveria, one of Georgia's first casinos with 23 tables and 225 slots.
Iwashimizu Hachimangū
Iwashimizu Hachimangū (石清水八幡宮) is a Shinto shrine on Mount Otokoyama in Yawata, Kyoto, founded in 859 to enshrine Emperor Ōjin as the god Hachiman; its main buildings are National Treasures.
J. Barry Cooke
J. Barry Cooke (James Barry Cooke, 1915–2005) was an American civil engineer whose consulting in over 20 countries drove worldwide acceptance of the concrete face rockfill dam.
Jack-up barge
A jack-up barge is a mobile marine platform with legs lowered to the seabed so its hull can be raised above the water as a stable work platform.
Jackson L. Durkee
Jackson Leland Durkee (1922–2007) was an American structural engineer who spent 29 years at Bethlehem Steel, originating the prefabricated parallel-wire strand system for suspension-bridge main cables.
Jacksonville Expressway Authority
The Jacksonville Expressway Authority was a Florida public body created in 1955 to build Jacksonville's expressways and toll bridges, including the Fuller Warren and Hart bridges.
Jacques Cartier Bridge
The Jacques Cartier Bridge (pont Jacques-Cartier) is a five-lane steel cantilever bridge across the St. Lawrence River, linking Montreal with Longueuil on the South Shore.
Jacques-Gabriel Bridge
The Jacques-Gabriel Bridge (Pont Jacques-Gabriel) is an 18th-century masonry arch bridge carrying the road across the Loire at Blois, France, built between 1717 and 1724.
Jagannath Temple, Puri
The Jagannath Temple, also called Shree Mandira, is a 12th-century Hindu temple in Puri, Odisha, India, dedicated to Jagannath, a form of Vishnu, and one of Hinduism's four Char Dham pilgrimage sites.
Jai Vilas Mahal (जय विलास महल)
Jai Vilas Mahal, also called Jai Vilas Palace (जय विलास महल), is a nineteenth-century palace in Gwalior, India, built by Maharaja Jayajirao Scindia and still home to his family.
Jaíba Project
The Jaíba Project (Projeto Público de Irrigação Jaíba) is a public irrigation scheme in northern Minas Gerais, Brazil, between the São Francisco and Verde Grande rivers, planned from the 1950s for 100,000 hectares.
Jaigarh Fort
Jaigarh Fort is a Rajput hill fortress above Amer near Jaipur, India, built in 1726 by Jai Singh II and famous for the Jaivana cannon and its water-harvesting system.
Jaisalmer Fort (जैसलमेर दुर्ग)
Jaisalmer Fort (जैसलमेर दुर्ग), also called Sonar Quila or the Golden Fort, is a sandstone hill fort on Trikuta Hill in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, built by Rawal Jaisal in the twelfth century.
Jakarta flood control and Great Garuda
Jakarta flood control protects Indonesia's sinking capital through polders, pumps, and dikes, while the Great Garuda was a proposed bird-shaped 35 km sea wall across Jakarta Bay.
Jakarta International Stadium
Jakarta International Stadium (JIS; Indonesian: Stadion Internasional Jakarta) is a football stadium with a retractable roof in North Jakarta, opened in 2022 as the home of Persija Jakarta.
Jal Jeevan Mission (जल जीवन मिशन)
Jal Jeevan Mission (जल जीवन मिशन), also called Har Ghar Jal, is an Indian government program launched in 2019 to provide tap water to every rural household.