Mount Rushmore National Memorial, located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, is known worldwide for its massive sculpture of four of the United States’ most respected presidents. The monument is spread over an area of 517-ha landscape covered by ...
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World Trade Center: Reasons Behind the Failure of Building After 9/11 Attack
The World Trade Center (WTC) complex was composed of seven buildings (WTC-1 to WTC-7) on a site toward the southwest tip of Manhattan Island. The two buildings, WTC-1 and WTC-2 built in the early 1970s, were 110 stories high, dwarfing ...
Bandra-Worli Bridge: India’s Longest Cable-Stayed Bridge in the Open Sea
The Bandra-Worli Bridge, now known as the Rajiv Gandhi sea link, is a civil engineering marvel traversing an arc along the coastline of the city of Mumbai. The towers of the cable-stayed bridge rise gracefully towards the sky, manifesting the ...
Big Ben Clock Tower: Ticking with a Tilt
The Big Ben Clock Tower is the British cultural icon and was renamed “Elizabeth Tower” in 2012 to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Upon its construction in the year 1858, it was the tallest and the largest ...
Athens Acropolis: Geotechnical Features of the Bedrock of Western Civilization
The Acropolis of Athens is the most striking and complete ancient Greek monumental complex extant in our times. It is an architectural treasure that belongs not only to the Greek patrimony but also to the worldwide cultural heritage. It is ...
Burj Khalifa: Construction of the Tallest Structure in the World
The Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest structure with a height of 828 m and has a total of 163 floors. Famous as a mixed-use development tower with a total floor area of 460,000 m2, it includes residential, hotel, commercial, ...
Delhi Metro: Unique Features of the Best Railway Network in the World
The need for a rail-based public transport system for the city of Delhi had been on the cards for a long time. However, the plans materialized in the mid-90s when the phase-I of the Delhi Metro project was sanctioned by ...
Channel Tunnel: Construction of the World’s Longest Underwater Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel, also known as Eurotunnel or Chunnel, is the world’s longest underwater railway tunnel built to connect the United Kingdom with Europe via France. Traveling through the tunnel is possible either by ordinary rail coach or the passengers’ own vehicles, ...