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Loddon Bridge disaster
The Loddon Bridge disaster was the collapse of falsework during construction of the A329 viaduct over the River Loddon at Woodley, Berkshire, on 24 October 1972, killing three workers and injuring ten.
Lodging
Lodging is paid overnight accommodation for travelers in hotels, motels, guesthouses, hostels, and holiday homes; UN statistics classify it as collective accommodation under common commercial management.
Loft
A loft is a large, open-plan dwelling made by converting a former industrial or commercial building into housing, with high ceilings, large windows, and few internal partitions.
Log cabin
A log cabin is a small dwelling of horizontally stacked logs joined at notched corners, needing no nails, introduced to America by Finnish and Swedish settlers in 1638.
Log construction
Log construction is a building method in which horizontally stacked logs joined at interlocking corner notches form load-bearing walls, historically dominant in Norway and widely used for log homes.
Loggia
A loggia is a roofed gallery that is part of a building but open on one or more sides through arches or columns, typical of warm climates.
Lohagad (लोहगड)
Lohagad, or Lohagad Fort (लोहगड), is a hill fort in the Western Ghats near Lonavala, Maharashtra, India, built by the 10th century and seized by Shivaji in 1648.
Lokka Reservoir
Lokka Reservoir (Lokan tekojärvi) is a man-made lake in Sodankylä, Finnish Lapland, created in 1967 by damming the Luiro River. It is one of the largest in the European Union.
Lomba do Sabao
Lomba do Sabão (Lomba do Sabao) is a Porto Alegre–Viamão locality in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, known for its 1940s-era, 11-meter decommissioned water-supply dam in Parque Saint'Hilaire, now slated for CAF-funded requalification.
Lombard House, London
Lombard House (Sunderland House), 2B Trebeck Street, Curzon Street, Mayfair: Grade II listed 1901 Edwardian town mansion built for the 9th Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; later League of Nations HQ, Lombard Bank headquarters, then Qatari-owned private residence.
London Bridge
London Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames in London, connecting the City of London with Southwark; the current concrete bridge opened in 1973.
London Bridge (Lake Havasu City)
London Bridge is a bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, whose granite facing comes from the 1831 London Bridge that once spanned the River Thames in London.
London Charterhouse
The London Charterhouse is a historic complex in Clerkenwell, London, that has served as a Black Death burial ground, a Carthusian monastery, a Tudor mansion, and since 1611 a charitable almshouse.
London Eye
The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, is a 135-meter cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the Thames in London, opened in 2000.
London Mechanics' Institution
The London Mechanics' Institution was an adult education institution founded in London in 1823 to teach working men science, surviving today as Birkbeck, University of London.
London Museum of Water & Steam
The London Museum of Water & Steam, formerly the Kew Bridge Steam Museum, is an industrial museum in Brentford, London, housing Victorian steam water-pumping engines.
London Power Tunnels
London Power Tunnels is a two-phase National Grid program of deep-bore electricity cable tunnels beneath London: 32 km in north London built between 2010 and 2018, and 32 km more in south London completing in 2028.
London sewer system
The London sewer system, or London sewers, drains London's wastewater through a network built by Joseph Bazalgette for the Metropolitan Board of Works between 1859 and 1875.
London water supply infrastructure
London water supply infrastructure, also called London water infrastructure, is the system of rivers, reservoirs, tunnels, and pipes that supplies drinking water to Greater London, operated mainly by Thames Water.
Long-Term Pavement Performance program
The Long-Term Pavement Performance program is a North American research program studying pavement performance, begun in 1987 under SHRP and run by the Federal Highway Administration.
Longère
A longère is a traditional rural house of western France, most associated with Normandy and Brittany, laid out as a long, low, single-depth row of dwelling and farm rooms under one roof.
Longhouse
A longhouse is a long, narrow rectangular dwelling that houses several families under one roof, built independently by cultures from Neolithic Europe to Viking Scandinavia and Borneo.
Longleat
Longleat is a Wiltshire stately home and estate near Horningsham, seat of the Marquesses of Bath. Its Elizabethan house (1567–1580) opened to the public in 1949, and its 1966 Safari Park was the first outside Africa.
Longwood House
Longwood House is a residence on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, best known as Napoleon Bonaparte's final home, where he died in 1821.
Longyangxia Dam (龙羊峡大坝)
Longyangxia Dam (龙羊峡大坝) is a large dam and 1,280 MW hydropower station on the upper Yellow River in Qinghai, China, completed in 1992 with multiyear regulation capacity.
Loon Lake (California)
Loon Lake is a reservoir in the Sierra Nevada of El Dorado County, California, about 35 miles northeast of Placerville, impounded by a dam SMUD completed in 1963.
Lorentz (company)
LORENTZ (Bernt Lorentz GmbH & Co. KG) is a German manufacturer of solar-powered water pumping systems, founded in Hamburg in 1993 and selling in about 140 countries.
Loretto Chapel
The Loretto Chapel, formally the Chapel of Our Lady of Light, is a former Roman Catholic chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, built between 1873 and 1878.
Loring A. Wyllie Jr.
Loring A. Wyllie Jr. (born 1938) is an American structural engineer who spent his career at Degenkolb Engineers in San Francisco, specializing in seismic assessment and retrofit of existing buildings.
Lorsch Abbey
Lorsch Abbey (Kloster Lorsch) was a Benedictine imperial abbey in Lorsch, Hesse, Germany, founded around 764; its Carolingian Königshalle gatehouse is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.