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Lime mortar
Lime mortar is a masonry mortar made by mixing lime as the binder with sand and water, dominant from antiquity until the late nineteenth century and still used to repair traditional buildings.
Limescale
Limescale, also known as kettle fur, is the hard, chalky calcium carbonate deposit that forms on heated surfaces like kettles, water heaters, and pipes when hard water is heated.
Limit analysis
Limit analysis is a plasticity method that computes bounds on the collapse load of structures and soil masses using lower-bound and upper-bound theorems, without incremental load stepping.
Limit equilibrium method
The limit equilibrium method is a geotechnical analysis technique that computes a factor of safety for a potential slope failure along an assumed slip surface.
Limit state design
Limit state design is a structural engineering method that verifies safety and serviceability by checking defined limit states with partial safety factors on loads and material strengths.
Lina Bo Bardi
Lina Bo Bardi (Achillina Bo, 1914–1992), Italian-born Brazilian architect of MASP and SESC Pompéia; known for 'arquitetura pobre', the 8-metre suspended MASP gallery, Habitat magazine, and the 2021 Venice Golden Lion in memoriam.
Lincoln Cathedral
Lincoln Cathedral, also known as Lincoln Minster, is the medieval Gothic cathedral church of Lincoln, England, standing on the old city's hilltop and built from Anglo-Norman Romanesque through Decorated Gothic.
Lincoln Tunnel
The Lincoln Tunnel, also known as the Midtown Hudson Tunnel, is a three-tube vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting midtown Manhattan with Weehawken, New Jersey.
Line of balance
Line of balance is a graphical scheduling method for repetitive work, such as housing projects and high-rise floors, in which each trade is a sloped line showing its production rate.
Lingaraja Temple (ଲିଙ୍ଗରାଜ ମନ୍ଦିର)
Lingaraja Temple (ଲିଙ୍ଗରାଜ ମନ୍ଦିର) is an 11th-century Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, regarded as the culminating monument of the Kalinga architectural tradition.
Lingqu (灵渠)
Lingqu (灵渠), also called the Ling Canal or Magic Canal, is an ancient canal in Xing'an County, Guangxi, China, completed in 214 BC under Emperor Qinshihuang.
Linoleum
Linoleum is a resilient floor covering made from linseed oil, cork, and other natural materials, patented by Frederick Walton in 1860 and widely used through the 1960s.
Lintel
A lintel is a horizontal beam of stone, timber, steel, or concrete spanning the top of a door or window and carrying the weight above it.
Lion Gate
The Lion Gate, built around 1250 BCE, is the main entrance to the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae in southern Greece, named for its lion relief.
Liquefaction potential index
The liquefaction potential index (LPI) is a geotechnical index, proposed by Iwasaki et al. in 1978, that rates the severity of earthquake-induced soil liquefaction at a site.
List of aqueducts
The list of aqueducts, also known as List of aqueducts in the World, covers notable examples of Roman water-supply channels, navigable canal aqueducts, and modern pipelines.
List of architectural styles
The list of architectural styles catalogs building styles grouped by period and movement, from Georgian and Federation to modernism and postmodernism, though styles overlap and many buildings are hybrids.
List of bridge failures
The list of bridge failures, also known as bridge collapses or bridge disasters, documents hundreds of failures per decade, most caused by floods, scour, collisions, and overloading.
List of bridges and tunnels in New York City
The list of bridges and tunnels in New York City covers crossings linking the five boroughs, from the Brooklyn Bridge to 23 movable bridges and four vehicular tunnels.
List of bridges in London
The list of bridges in London catalogs the bridges crossing the River Thames in Greater London, from Hampton Court Bridge to Tower Bridge, plus tunnels and footbridges.
List of British military bases
British military bases are the barracks, airfields, naval bases, and training areas owned or used by the UK Ministry of Defence, with over 2,000 in the UK alone.
List of Buddhist temples
The list of Buddhist temples surveys notable temples and temple complexes across Asia, from Bodh Gaya and Lumbini to Japan, Tibet, Cambodia, Thailand, and Korea.
List of building types
A building type is a category sorting buildings by shared function or physical form, from single-family houses to data centers, classified differently by building codes, statistical agencies, and real-estate taxonomies.
List of Canada–United States border crossings
Canada–United States border crossings: about 120 land ports of entry, 31 rail crossings, and 11 ferry routes along the 5,525-mile border, with Detroit–Windsor and Buffalo–Niagara Falls the busiest and Gordie Howe the newest bridge.
List of castles in England
The list of castles in England, or list of English castles, is a gazetteer of about 1,095 fortified sites built between roughly 1000 and 1600, from earthwork mounds to concentric fortresses.
List of cities in the United States with the most skyscrapers
Ranks US cities by count of completed skyscrapers 150 m and taller, per CTBUH Skyscraper Center data: New York City leads with 324, then Chicago 137, Miami 68, Houston 40, and Los Angeles 31.
List of cities with the most skyscrapers
Ranking of cities by number of skyscrapers, usually buildings over 150 m per CTBUH/Skyscraper Center data. Hong Kong leads (569), then Shenzhen, New York City, Dubai; Mumbai leads under-construction counts.
List of cleanest cities in India
The list of cleanest cities in India ranks cities by the annual Swachh Survekshan survey, run since 2016; Mysuru won first, and Indore topped seven editions.
List of country houses in the United Kingdom
The list of country houses in the United Kingdom catalogs significant residences across all four nations, from medieval survivals to Georgian and Victorian buildings, held by private owners, trusts, and public bodies.
List of covered bridges in Alabama
The list of covered bridges in Alabama covers the state's 11 surviving historic covered bridges, built from the early 1800s to the mid-1930s, five of them on the National Register.