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Here are some types of buildings. See also architecture and forms in architecture. Building is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself; see also construction. ...
The Parthenon on top of the Acropolis, Athens, Greece Architecture (from Latin, architectura and ultimately from Greek, αÏχιτεκτων, a master builder, from αÏχι- chief, leader and τεκτων, builder, carpenter) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ...
Philosophical arguments for classification system There are many ways to study architecture and the forms that are created by architects. ...
For individual buildings, see List of buildings. Famous or notable buildings with articles about them include: Index: A-B - C - D-G - H-L - M-O - P-R - S - T-V - W 1 Canada Square, London, United Kingdom 2 Fevrier Sofitel Hotel, Lomé, Togo 8 Canada Square, London, United Kingdom 30 St Mary Axe, London, United Kingdom...
Agricultural buildings
A barn in southern Ontario, Canada A barn in Wisconsin A barn in Poland Barn redirects here, for other uses, see Barn (disambiguation). ...
A chicken coop or chickenhouse is a building, usually the size of a small shack or shed, where chickens are kept on a farm. ...
A chicken coop or chickenhouse is a building, usually the size of a small shack or shed, where chickens are kept on a farm or homestead. ...
A greenhouse in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ...
Silo may mean: missile silo, to store or launch missiles storage silo, structure used for storing bulk materials Information silo, a computer system that does not provide efficient machine communication systems to other computers. ...
This article is about the building; for another meaning, see stability. ...
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A tide mill is a specialist type of water mill driven by tidal rise and fall. ...
Root cellar is an underground room suitable for storage of consumable goods. ...
A water well is an artificial excavation or structure put down by any method such as digging, boring or drilling for the purposes of withdrawing water from underground aquifers. ...
An Australian Hay Shed A shed is generally a modest structure, usually constructed of wood in a back garden or on an allotment, used for storage and as a workshop and very often as a retreat in which to relax and pursue hobbies, especially gardening and light engineering. ...
A barn in southern Ontario, Canada A barn in Wisconsin A barn in Poland A round barn in Fayette County, Indiana This article is about a type of agricultural building, for other uses see Barn (disambiguation). ...
Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century) A watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process such as flour or lumber production. ...
Pitstone Windmill, believed to be the oldest windmill in the British Isles A windmill is an engine powered by the energy of wind. ...
A horse-mill is a mill that uses a horse as the power source. ...
A pigpen is a fence used to keep a pig in a farm, see sty Pigpen is the name of a character in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ...
For the eye condition see stye. ...
Commercial buildings A bank is an institution that provides financial service, particularly taking deposits and extending credit. ...
Tourists sit outside a bar in Chiang Mai, Thailand A bar in Switzerland. ...
An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada...
Brothels are establishments (usually illegal) specifically dedicated to prostitution and may be confined to special red-light districts in large cities. ...
The Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey. ...
The Forum of Cosa, in Italy. ...
Modern gas station A filling station, gas station or petrol station is a facility that sells fuel for road motor vehicles – usually petrol (US: gas/gasoline), diesel fuel and LPG. The term gas station is mostly particular to the United States of America and Canada, where petrol is known as...
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging, usually on a short-term basis and especially for tourists. ...
Holiday Inn Great Sign Exterior of a Howard Johnsons motor lodge. ...
A physical marketplace in Portugal enables buyers and sellers of produce to do business with each other. ...
A nightclub (often shortened to club) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ...
This article is about traditional meanings of the word office. ...
Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ...
Taipei 101, considered the worlds tallest skyscraper. ...
Look up shop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A shop is an enclosed location where a specific activity is carried out. ...
The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota — the third-largest in the world. ...
Exterior appearance of typical American supermarket (a Safeway) A supermarket or grocery store is a store that sells a wide variety of food. ...
Dwellings see also: List of types of lodging A tower block, block of flats or apartment block is a high_rise apartment building. ...
A psychiatric hospital (also called at various places and times, mental hospital, mental ward, asylum or sanitarium) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ...
A condominium is a form of housing tenure. ...
A typical American college dorm room A dormitory or dorm is a place to sleep. ...
Duplex, meaning double or twofold, may refer to: Duplex, a telecommunications term referring to two-way simultaneous transmission and reception A duplex is the U.S. name for a particular type of housing. ...
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Residential dwellings can be built in a large variety of configurations. ...
A nursing home or skilled nursing facility (SNF) is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant Activity of Daily Living (ADL) deficiencies. ...
This is a selected list of types of lodging. ...
Educational buildings The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ...
A university classroom with permanently-installed desk-chairs and green chalkboards. ...
A typical American college dorm room A dormitory or dorm is a place to sleep. ...
A gymnasium is a type of school of secondary education in parts of Europe. ...
A students union, student government, or student council is a student organization present at many colleges and universities, often with its own building on the campus, dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body. ...
American high school students in a school A school is most commonly a place designated for learning. ...
A modern-style library in Chambéry In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. ...
The National Gallery in London, a famous museum. ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ...
For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed...
The name amphitheatre (alternatively amphitheater) is given to a public building of the Classical period (being particularly associated with ancient Rome) which was used for spectator sports, games and displays. ...
A Concert hall is a cultural building, which serves as performance venue, chiefly for classical instrumental music. ...
A typical megaplex (AMC Ontario Mills 30 in Ontario, California). ...
Nickelodeon is an early 20th century form of small, neighborhood movie theaters in which admission was obtained for a nickel. ...
An opera house is a building where operas are performed. ...
A symphony is an extended piece of music usually for orchestra and usually comprised of several movements. ...
A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees at all levels (bachelor, master, and doctor) in a variety of subjects. ...
Government buildings Photo of the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC, December 2003. ...
In small towns, the town hall may also incorporate other functions, such as a post office. ...
See also: consulate (disambiguation). ...
In most counties in the United States the local trial courts conduct their business in a centrally located courthouse which may also house the offices of the county treasurer, clerk and recorder and assessor. ...
A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one nation state present in another nation state to represent the sending state in the receiving State. ...
A fire station is a building or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus i. ...
The quintessential medieval European palace: Palais de la Cité, in Paris, the royal palace of France. ...
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A typical suburban police station in the United States (this one is in San Bruno, California). ...
Small-town post office and town hall in Lockhart, Alabama A post office is a facility (in most countries, a government one) where the public can purchase postage stamps for mailing correspondence or merchandise, and also drop off or pick up packages or other special-delivery items. ...
Industrial buildings A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is a large industrial building where workers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. ...
A power station (also power plant) is a facility for the generation of electric power. ...
A refinery is a building and/or the equipment used for refining or processing specific products. ...
A factory (previously manufactory) is a large industrial building where goods or products are manufactured. ...
Military buildings Barracks is usally used to connote a type of military housing. ...
Bunkers in Albania A bunker is a defensive military fortification. ...
A 19th-century-era block house in Fort York, Toronto In military science, a blockhouse is a small, isolated fort in the form of a single building. ...
The main gatehouse of Harlech Castle, Wales. ...
Fortifications (Latin fortis, strong, and facere, to make) are military constructions designed for defensive warfare. ...
The Eiffel Tower Fire-observation watchtower in Kostroma, Russia. ...
Parking and storage Hangars can be used to hold airplanes, airships and helicopters. ...
A barn in southern Ontario, Canada A barn in Wisconsin A barn in Poland Barn redirects here, for other uses, see Barn (disambiguation). ...
A multi-storey car park is a building or part thereof which is designed specifically to be for vehicle parking and where there are a number of floors on which parking takes place. ...
An Australian Hay Shed A shed is generally a modest structure, usually constructed of wood in a back garden or on an allotment, used for storage and as a workshop and very often as a retreat in which to relax and pursue hobbies, especially gardening and light engineering. ...
Concrete stave silo used for corn silage Storage silos are structures for storing bulk materials. ...
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Religious buildings Church in Villach, Austria. ...
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A cathedral is a Christian church building, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Anglican, Catholic and some Lutheran churches, which serves as the central church of a diocese, and thus as a bishops seat. ...
Duomo is a generic Italian term for a cathedral church. ...
A chapel is a private church, usually small and often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ...
Oratory is the art of eloquent speech. ...
The Badshahi Masjid in Lahore, Pakistan with an iwan at center, three domes, and five visible minarets A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ...
Mihrab (in Persian مهراب or Ù…Øراب, in Arabic ألمØراب pl. ...
The Tikse monastery in Ladakh, India A monastery is the habitation of monks, derived from the Greek word for a hermits cell. ...
Mithraism was an ancient Hellenistic religion, based on worship of a god called Mithras who apparently derives from the Persian god Mithra and other Zoroastrian deities. ...
The Yazd Atash Behram A Fire Temple (also Dar-e Mihr in Persian در مهر, or Atash Kadeh آتشکده in Iran, Agiary in India, and various names in North America) is a place of worship for Zoroastrians. ...
Geometric shape created by connecting a polygonal base to an apex For other versions including architectural Pyramids, see Pyramid (disambiguation). ...
Eastern Orthodox shrine Buddhist shrine just outside Wat Phnom. ...
Lesko synagogue, Poland A synagogue (Hebrew: בית ×›× ×¡×ª ; beit knesset, house of assembly; Yiddish: שול, shul) is a Jewish place of religious worship. ...
The Akshardham Hindu temple (mandir), Delhi, India, 2005 The Ecclesia, the Rosicrucian healing temple, Oceanside, California, United States, 1920 The word temple has different meanings in the fields of architecture, religion, geography, anatomy, and education. ...
A pagoda at Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia A pagoda is the general term in the English language for a tiered tower with multiple eaves common in China, Japan, Korea, and other parts of Asia. ...
Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Southall, UK. A Gurdwara (Punjabi: , often incorrectly called a Gurudwara), meaning the doorway to God, is the Sikh place of worship and may be referred to as a Sikh Temple. ...
Transit stations For other meanings, see Bus stop (disambiguation). ...
Metro is: a general term, synonymous with rapid transit, subway or underground, for an urban underground rail public transit system (see list of rapid transit systems); any of several specific public transport systems, including: Bi-State Development Agency in Missouri and Illinois, d/b/a Metro since 2003 Buffalo Metro...
Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street station in 1865. ...
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