31 Lists of buildings and structures

This is a list of amphitheatres in use today.

List of Greek and Roman architectural records

The list of ancient architectural records consists of record-making architectural achievements of the Greco-Roman world from c. 800 BC to 600 AD.

This is a list of ancient monoliths found in all types of Greek and Roman buildings.

This is a list of aquaria. For dolphinariums, see List of dolphinariums. For zoos, see List of zoos. For a list of defunct zoos and aquariums, see List of former zoos and aquariums.

This is a list of Baroque palaces and residences built in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe. The style took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state in defiance of the Reformation.

This is a list of bastion forts.

The following is a list of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks as designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers since it began the program in 1964. The designation is granted to projects, structures, and sites in the United States and the rest of the world. As of 2019, there are over 280 landmarks that have been approved by the ASCE Board of Direction. Sections or chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers may also designate state or local landmarks within their areas; those landmarks are not listed here.

The following buildings and structures are related to The Coca-Cola Company or their bottlers. As of 2012, 900 factories and bottleries served the company and many buildings formerly used by the company have been added to heritage registers.

This is a list of celebrated domes, listed in order of their completion:c. 1250 BC - Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece. 125 AD - The Pantheon, Rome, Italy. 537 - Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire. 691 - Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem. 1312 - Dome of Soltaniyeh, Iran. 1436 - The Duomo, Florence, Italy. 1502 - The Tempietto, Rome, Italy. 1557 - Suleiman Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey. 1561 - St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, Russia. 1574 - Selimiye Mosque, Edirne, Turkey. 1593 - St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy.

A rave describes a dance party at a warehouse, public or private property, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music. The style is most associated with the early 90s dance music scene when DJs played at illegal events in musical styles dominated by electronic dance music from a wide range of sub-genres, including techno, hardcore, house, dubstep, and alternative dance. Occasionally live musicians have been known to perform at raves, in addition to other types of performance artists such as go-go dancers and fire dancers. The music is amplified with a large, powerful sound reinforcement system, typically with large subwoofers to produce a deep bass sound. The music is often accompanied by laser light shows, projected coloured images, visual effects and fog machines.

This is a list of notable buildings of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the American fraternal organization also known as the Elks or B.P.O.E., and of Elks of Canada, its counterpart. There are many meeting hall buildings of the Elks that are prominent in small towns and in cities in the United States; a number of these are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. There are many hundreds of buildings that have limited association with Elks; this list is intended to cover only the most prominent ones, including all that are listed on any historic registry.

A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or animals, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actual halls or museums that enshrine the honorees with sculptures, plaques, and displays of memorabilia and general information regarding the inducted recipients. Sometimes, the honorees' plaques may instead be posted on a wall or inscribed on a sidewalk. In other cases, the hall of fame is more figurative and consists of a list of names of noteworthy people and their achievements and contributions. The lists are maintained by an organization or community, and may be national, state, local, or private.

The list of historical harbour cranes includes historical harbour cranes from the Middle Ages to the introduction of metal cranes in the Industrial Revolution during the 19th century. Modern reconstructions are also listed.

A war memorial is a building, monument, statue, or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war.

A nonbuilding structure, also referred to simply as a structure, refers to any body or system of connected parts used to support a load that was not designed for continuous human occupancy. The term is used by architects, structural engineers, and mechanical engineers to distinctly identify built structures that are not buildings.

This is a list of octagon houses. The style became popular in the United States and Canada following the publication of Orson Squire Fowler's 1848 book The Octagon House, A Home for All. In the United States, 68 surviving octagon houses are included on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The earliest and most notable octagon house in the Americas was Thomas Jefferson's 1806 Poplar Forest.

The Pratt and Buckingham Octagon House is a historic octagon house in Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York that was built in ca. 1865. It is a private home at 99 Chestnut Street; the rear of the property is on Canadaway Creek.

List of octagonal buildings and structures

Octagon buildings and structures are characterized by an octagonal plan form, whether a perfect geometric octagon or a regular eight-sided polygon with approximately equal sides.

The following buildings are of significance in pioneering the use of solar powered building design:MIT Solar House #1, Massachusetts, United States Howard Sloan House, Glenview, Illinois, United States "Solar Hemicycle", near Madison, Wisconsin, United States Löf House, Boulder, Colorado, United States Rosenberg House, Tucson, Arizona, United States MIT Solar House #2, United States, Peabody House, Dover, Massachusetts, United States Henry P. Glass House, Northfield, Illinois, United States Rose Elementary School, Tucson, Arizona, United States MIT Solar House #3, United States, New Mexico State College House, New Mexico, United States Lefever Solar House, Pennsylvania, United States Bliss House, Amado, Arizona, United States Solar Building, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States University of Toronto House, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Solar House, Tokyo, Japan Solar House, Bristol, United Kingdom Curtis House, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom Löf House, Denver, Colorado, United States AFASE "Living With the Sun" House, Phoenix, Arizona, United States MIT Solar House #4, United States Solar House, Casablanca, Morocco Solar House, Nagoya, Japan Curtiss-Wright "Sun Court," Princeton, New Jersey, United States "Sun-Tempered House" Van Dresser Residence Thomason Solar House "Solaris" #1, Washington D.C., United States Passive Solar House, Odeillo, France Steve Baer House, Corrales, New Mexico, United States Skytherm House, Atascadero, California, United States Solar One, Newark, Delaware, United States MIT Solar Building V, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States "Unit One" Balcomb Residence, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States The first Zero Energy Design home, Oklahoma, United States Saunders Shrewsbury House, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States Multiple IEA SHC "Task 13" houses, Worldwide Multiple passive houses in Darmstadt, Germany Heliotrope, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany The Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh, India 31 Tannery Project, Branchburg, New Jersey, United States (2006) Sun Ship, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Mesoamerican pyramids form a prominent part of ancient Mesoamerican architecture. Although similar in some ways to Egyptian pyramids, these New World structures have flat tops and stairs ascending their faces. The largest pyramid in the world by volume is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the east-central Mexican state of Puebla. The builders of certain classic Mesoamerican pyramids have decorated them copiously with stories about the Hero Twins, the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl, Mesoamerican creation myths, ritualistic sacrifice, etc. written in the form of hieroglyphs on the rises of the steps of the pyramids, on the walls, and on the sculptures contained within.

List of Ramakrishna Mission institutions

The following is the list of institutions started by / affiliated to Ramakrishna Mission.

Roller coasters are amusement rides developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. During the 16th and 17th centuries, rides consisting of wooden sleds that took riders down large slides made from ice were popular in Russia. The first roller coasters, where the train was attached to a wooden track, first appeared in France in the early 1800s. Although wooden roller coasters are still being produced, steel roller coasters are more common and can be found on every continent except Antarctica.

A spite house is a building constructed or substantially modified to irritate neighbors or any party with land stakes. Because long-term occupation is not the primary purpose of these houses, they frequently sport strange and impractical structures.

The world's tallest artificial structure is the 829.8-metre-tall (2,722 ft) Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The building gained the official title of "tallest building in the world" and the tallest self-supported structure at its opening on January 9, 2010. Burj Khalifa was developed by Emaar properties, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and built by BESIX, Samsung Construction and Arabtec. The second-tallest self-supporting structure and the tallest tower in the world is the Tokyo Skytree. The tallest guyed structure is the KVLY-TV mast.

This list of tallest buildings includes skyscrapers with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least 350 m. Non-building structures, such as towers, are not included in this list.

This list of tallest buildings in the world by height to roof ranks completed skyscrapers by height to roof which reach a height of 350 metres (1,148 ft) or more. Only buildings with continuously occupiable floors are included, thus non-building structures including towers, are not included. Some assessments of the tallest building use 'height to roof' to determine tallest building in the world, as 'architectural feature' is regarded as a subjective and an imprecise comparative measure. However, in November 2009, the CTBUH stopped using the roof height as the metric for tall buildings because modern tall buildings rarely have a part of the building that can categorically be deemed the roof.

This is a list of the tallest domes in the world. The dome can be measured by various criteria. There are different types of domes. Many of the tallest domes have a lantern. Strictly speaking, the lantern is not part of the dome, but often the overall height of the domes includes the height of the lantern.

The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at 829.8 m (2,722 ft). Listed are guyed masts, self-supporting towers, skyscrapers, oil platforms, electricity transmission towers, and bridge support towers. This list is organized by absolute height. See List of tallest buildings and structures, List of tallest freestanding structures and List of tallest buildings and List of tallest towers for additional information about these types of structures.

This list ranks skyscrapers by height which were designed by women working as primary architects or design coordinators. Only buildings with continuously occupiable floors are included, thus non-building structures, including towers, are not included.

See List of fortifications for a list of notable fortified structures. For city walls in particular, see List of cities with defensive walls.

This is a list of buildings related to Foot Locker, Inc., its predecessors, or the Woolworth family.