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Shibam
Surrounded by a 23-foot-high (7-meter) mud-brick wall, the Yemeni city of Shibam lies at the southern edge of the Rub’al-Khali Desert at the junction of several wadis and the Hadramawt Valley....
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Shwedagon Pagoda
The most spectacular building in Yangon (formerly known as Rangoon) is the Shwedagon Pagoda, a great bell-shaped, solid brick stupa covered with an estimated 55 tons (50 tonnes) of gold. It rises 368...
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Sigiriya (Lion Mountain)
Sigiriya (Lion Mountain), about 130 miles (210 kilometers) from Colombo in central Sri Lanka, is a ruined ancient stronghold built on a sheer-sided rock pillar. It rises 1,144 feet (349 meters) above...
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Skellig Michael
Skellig Michael (Sceilig Mhichil), or Great Skellig, is the larger of a pair of forbidding limestone pinnacles—the other is Small Skellig—jutting from the Atlantic Ocean about 7 miles (12 kilometers)...
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Skyscrapers
Only seldom for ideological, political or pragmatic reasons has a society called for a new building type. Ecclesiastes asserts “There is nothing new under the sun,” and most human endeavor is...
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Snowy Mountains Scheme
The Snowy Mountains Scheme, one of the largest engineering and construction projects in the world, extends over 2,700 square miles (7,000 square kilometers) in Australia’s Snowy Mountain Range. The...
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Solomon’s Temple
No archeological remnant of Solomon’s Temple survives. The Bible provides descriptions, and since it is generally believed that the architectural style was constrained by regional influences, the...
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Statue of Liberty
Originally titled Liberty Enlightening the World, the colossal statue on Liberty Island in New York Harbor stands nearly 307 feet (93.5 meters) high. It represents a woman of pre-Raphaelite appearance,...
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Stockton and Darlington Railway
The Stockton and Darlington line, the world’s first public railroad, was opened on 27 September 1825. As well as carrying coal, the train drawn by “Locomotion No. 1” had about 550 passengers, most of...
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Storm Surge Barrier Rotterdam, the Netherlands
More than half the Netherlands lies below sea level, and the little country is protected from flooding by about 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) of dikes. The process of global warming and the consequent...
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Suez Canal
The Suez Canal, an artificial waterway across the Isthmus of Suez in northeastern Egypt, connects Port Said on the Mediterranean coast with Port Tawfiq on the Gulf of Suez, an inlet of the Red Sea. The...
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Sultan Ahmet Mosque
The deeply religious Ottoman sultan of Istanbul Ahmet I (reigned a.d. 1603–1617) was enthroned at the age of fourteen. Six years later he commissioned his architect Sedefkar Mehmet Agha to build a...
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Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Harbour Bridge, irreverently known as “the coat hanger” to Sydneysiders, is the largest, although not the longest, one-bow bridge in the world. It crosses from Dawe’s Point on the downtown...
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Sydney Opera House
The Opera House stands on Bennelong Point, which reaches out into Sydney Harbour, close to the famous bridge. It was designed by the Danish architect Jørn Utzon and engineered by the English firm of...
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Taj Mahal , India
The Taj Mahal, India’s most recognizable icon, was built on the banks of the River Jamuna at Agra by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (reigned a.d.1628–1666), in memory of his beloved wife Arjumand Banu...
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Temple of Amun: The Hypostyle Hall
On the east bank of the Nile at Thebes, 440 miles (700 kilometers) south of the site of modern Cairo, stood the most extensive temple complex in ancient Egypt. From the time of the New Kingdom...
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The Farnsworth House By Mies van der Rohe
The Farnsworth House has this in common with Cannery Rowin Monterey, California: it is a poem, a quality of light, atone, ahabit, a nostalgia, a dream. It has about it, also, an aura of highromance....
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I'm an Architect ..
I'm an Architect .. Its a statement...or may be argument for some people...but thats the fact.. my university gave me that degree... From first yr of my college I'm being asked...what is...
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