Donald Langmead Christine Garnaut Encyclopedia of Architectural and Engineering Feats ABC CLIO 2001

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Contents
Preface
A
	Abomey Royal Palaces
	The Acropolis
	Afsluitdijk
	Airplane hangars
	Airship hangars
	Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge
	Alberobello trulli
	La Alhambra palace
	Alpine railroad tunnels
	Amsterdam Central Station
	Angkor Wat
	Appian Way
	Archigram
	Artemiseion
	Aswan High Dam
	Avebury Stone Circle
B
	Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar\'s city
	Banaue rice terraces
	BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
	Baths of Caracalla
	The Bauhaus
	Bedouin tents
	Beijing-Hangzhou Canal
	Borobudur Temple
	Brasilia
	Bricks
	Brihadisvara Temple
	Brooklyn Bridge
C
	Cahokia mounds
	Canal system
	Cappadocia: underground cities
	Central Artery/Tunnel
	Chandigarh
	Channel Tunnel
	Charlemagne\'s Palatine Chapel
	Chartres Cathedral (Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady)
	Chek Lap Kok International Airport
	Ch\'in Shi Huangdi\'s tomb
	CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture)
	Circus Maximus
	Clifton Suspension Bridge
	Cluny Abbey Church III
	CN (Canadian National) Tower
	Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
	Colossus Bridge, Schuylkill River
	Colossus of Rhodes
	Confederation Bridge, Prince Edward Island
	Coop Himmelb(l)au
	Crystal Palace
	Curtain walls
D
	De Re Aedificatora
	De Stijl
	Deal Castle
	Deltaworks
	Ditherington Flax Mill
	Dome of the Rock (Qubbat As-Sakhrah)
	Dover Castle
	Durham Cathedral
E
	Eames House
	Eiffel Tower
	Empire State Building
	Engineering Building
	English landscape gardens
	Erechtheion
	Erie Canal
F
	Fallingwater
	Fera (Thera)
	Firth of Forth Railway Bridge
	Florence Cathedral dome
	Foundling Hospital
	Frederick C. Robie House
G
	Galerie des Machines (Gallery of Machines)
	Garden city idea
	Gateway Arch
	Geodesic domes
	German Pavilion
	Golden Gate Bridge
	Grand Buddha
	Grand Coulee Dam
	La Grande Arche
	Great Pyramid of Cheops
	Great Wall of China
	Great Zimbabwe
H
	Hadrian\'s Wall
	Hagia Sofia
	Halles Centrales (Central Markets)
	Hanging Gardens of Babylon
	Hezekiah\'s Tunnel
	Hippodamos of Miletus
	Hydraulic boat lifts
I
	Industrialized building
	Inka road system
	Inuit snow houses
	Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale
	Itaipu Dam
	Itsukushima Shinto shrine
J
	Jahrhunderthalle
	Jantar Mantar
K
	King\'s College Chapel
	The Krak of the Knights
L
	Lal Quila (the Red Fort)
	Lalibela rock-hewn churches
	Larkin Administration Building
	London Underground
M
	Ma\'dan reed houses
	Maiden Castle
	Maillart\'s bridges
	Maria-Pia Bridge
	Marib Dam
	Masjed-e-Shah (Royal Mosque)
	Maunsell sea forts
	Mausoleum at Halicarnassos
	Megalithic temples
	Menai Suspension Bridge
	Menier chocolate mill
	Mesa Verde Cliff Palace
	Meteora, Greece
	Mir space station
	Mishkan Ohel Haeduth (the Tent of Witness)
	Moai monoliths
	Mohenjo-Daro
	Mont-Saint-Michel
	Mount Rushmore
	Mycenae, Greece
	Mystra, Greece
N
	Nazca Lines
	Nemrud Dagi
	Newgrange
O
	Offa\'s Dike
	Orders of architecture
	Oresund Link
P
	Paddington Station
	Palace of Minos
	Panama Canal
	Pantheon
	Parthenon
	Pennsylvania Station
	Persepolis
	Petra
	Pharos of Alexandria
	Pisa Cathedral: The Campanile (Leaning Tower)
	Pneumatic structures
	Pompidou Center (Beaubourg)
	Pont du Gard
	Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
	Postmodern architecture
	Potala Palace
Q
	Qosqo, Peru
	Queen\'s House
R
	The Red House
	Reichstag
	Reinforced concrete
	Renault Distribution Center
	Retractable roofs
	Roman concrete construction
	Royal Albert Bridge
	The Royal Pavilion
S
	Sagrada Familia (Church of the Holy Family)
	St. Chapelle
	St. Denis Abbey Church
	St. Genevieve Library
	St. Katharine Dock
	St. Pancras Station
	St. Paul\'s Cathedral
	St. Peter\'s Basilica
	St. Pierre Cathedral
	San Paolo fuori la Mura (St. Paul\'s outside the Walls)
	Seikan Tunnel (Seikan Tonneru)
	Semmering Railway
	Shell concrete
	Shibam
	Shwedagon Pagoda
	Sigiriya (Lion Mountain)
	Skellig Michael
	Skyscrapers
	Snowy Mountains Scheme
	Solomon\'s Temple
	Statue of Liberty
	Stockton and Darlington Railway
	Storm Surge Barrier
	Suez Canal
	Sultan Ahmet Mosque
	Sydney Harbour Bridge
	Sydney Opera House
T
	Taj Mahal
	Temple of Amun: The Hypostyle Hall
	Temple of the Inscriptions
	Tension and suspension buildings
	Thames Tunnel
	Theater of the Asklepieion
	Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze River
	Timgad, Algeria
	Tower Bridge
	Treasury of Atreus
U
	Unite d\'Habitation
	U.S. interstate highway system
V
	Vehicle Assembly Building, John F. Kennedy Space Center
	Venice, Italy
	Villa Savoye
W
	Washington Monument
	Watts Towers
	Weissenhofsiedlung
	World Trade Center Towers
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