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Amsterdam School
The Amsterdam School (Dutch: Amsterdamse School) was an expressionist architectural movement in Amsterdam, active roughly 1910 to 1930 and led by Michel de Klerk, known for curved brick facades and workers' housing.
Amsterdam Water Supply
The Amsterdam water supply is the public drinking water system of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, begun in 1853 as the country's first piped supply and now operated by Waternet.
Amsterdam–Rhine Canal
The Amsterdam–Rhine Canal (Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal) is a 72-kilometer ship canal in the Netherlands connecting Amsterdam's port with the Rhine and Germany's Ruhr, opened in 1952 and carrying about 80,000 vessels yearly.
Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States Antarctic research station standing at the geographic South Pole, continuously occupied since 1956 and home to the IceCube neutrino detector.
Amway Arena
Amway Arena, also known as the Orlando Arena, TD Waterhouse Centre, and O-Rena, was an indoor arena in downtown Orlando that hosted the Orlando Magic from 1989 to 2010.
Anaerobic lagoon
Anaerobic lagoon: an earthen impoundment treating livestock manure and wastewater without oxygen, also called a covered lagoon digester when capped for methane capture; sized at 0.04–0.30 kg/m³/d loading, 2.4–6 m deep.
Anaerobic membrane bioreactor
An anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) is a wastewater treatment system pairing anaerobic digestion with membrane filtration, first introduced in South Africa in the 1980s and used mainly for industrial wastewater.
Ananda Temple
The Ananda Temple, known in Sanskrit as Anantapanni, is a Buddhist temple at Old Bagan, Myanmar, built under King Kyansittha in the late 11th or early 12th century.
Anapji
Anapji (안압지), officially Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond, is an artificial pond and garden in Gyeongju, South Korea, built for Silla King Munmu in 674.
Anchorage (bridge)
An anchorage is a massive concrete or rock structure at each end of a suspension bridge that secures the main cables and transfers their tension to the ground.
Ancient conduit engineering and technology
Ancient conduit engineering and technology covers the surveying, tunnelling, lining, and maintenance methods pre-modern non-Roman builders used to move water through qanats, Hellenistic tunnels, Nasca puquios, and Chimú canals.
Ancient Egyptian architecture
Ancient Egyptian architecture is the building tradition of ancient Egypt, best known for its stone pyramids, mortuary complexes, and temples such as Karnak and Luxor.
Ancient Greek architecture
Ancient Greek architecture is the building tradition of the Greek world from the 8th to the 1st century BC, centered on stone temples and the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders.
Ancient Mesopotamian canal administration
Ancient Mesopotamian canal administration is the set of institutions by which early southern Mesopotamian and Assyrian states organized construction, maintenance, and taxation of irrigation canals.
Ancient non-Roman water conduits
Ancient non-Roman water conduits are engineered channels, tunnels, and pipes that civilizations outside the Roman tradition used to move water, from Persian qanats to Peru's Cumbe Mayo aqueduct.
Ancient Sri Lankan irrigation systems
Ancient Sri Lankan irrigation systems are networks of earthen-bund reservoirs, canals, and sluices built in Sri Lanka's dry zone, starting with the Basavakkulama tank around 300 BC.
Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio, born Andrea di Pietro della Gondola (1508 to 1580), was an Italian Renaissance architect active mainly in Vicenza and Venice whose work inspired Palladianism.
Andrew Joblon
Andrew Joblon (born 1983) is an American real estate investor and developer, founder and Managing Principal of Turnbridge Equities, a New York City investment firm established in 2015.
Angkor Wat (អង្គរវត្ត)
Angkor Wat, also known as អង្គរវត្ត, is a temple complex in Cambodia and the world's largest religious monument, built by King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century.
Anglian Water
Anglian Water is the regulated water and water recycling company for most of eastern England, serving around 7 million customers and supplying over 1.2 billion liters of drinking water daily.
Anichkov Bridge (Аничков мост)
Anichkov Bridge (Аничков мост) is a stone bridge on Nevsky Prospekt over the Fontanka River in Saint Petersburg, built in 1841 and famous for Klodt's four Horse Tamer sculptures.
Animas–La Plata Project
The Animas–La Plata Project is a Bureau of Reclamation water project in southwestern Colorado that stores Animas River water in Lake Nighthorse near Durango to settle Ute tribal water rights claims.
Anji Bridge (安济桥)
The Anji Bridge, also known as the Zhaozhou Bridge or Big Stone Bridge, is a stone arch bridge over the Xiao River in Hebei, China, built during the Sui dynasty around 595 to 605 AD.
Anmer Hall
Anmer Hall is a 10-bedroom Georgian country house in Anmer, Norfolk, on the Sandringham Estate, given to the Prince and Princess of Wales as a wedding gift in 2013.
Antebellum architecture
Antebellum architecture is the building tradition of the United States before the Civil War, identified above all with Greek Revival style, tall columns, and symmetrical facades.
Antilia (building)
Antilia, also known as Antilia Mumbai, is a 27-floor, 173-meter private residential skyscraper on Altamount Road in Mumbai owned by Mukesh Ambani, completed in 2010 and listed by Guinness as the world's most expensive private residence.
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, or Antoni Gaudí y Cornet, was a Catalan architect and leading figure of Modernisme; seven of his Barcelona-area buildings are UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Antonivka Road Bridge
The Antonivka Road Bridge was a road bridge across the Dnipro at Kherson, Ukraine, opened in 1985 and blown up by retreating Russian troops in November 2022.
Aon Center (Chicago)
The Aon Center, once the Standard Oil Building and later the Amoco Building, is an 83-story, 1,136-foot Modernist office skyscraper in Chicago's Loop, completed in 1973 and reclad in granite in 1992.
Apartment
An apartment is a self-contained residential unit within a larger building, with its own living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation facilities and grouped or common access to the rest of the building.