Famous Structures Archive

The Casa del Fascio is an assertive presence in the heart of Como, Italy; compared to its traditional, much older neighboring structures, it is bright, clean, geometrically pure,

Beneath the eastern towers of Conwy Castle in northern Wales, the town’s river is crossed by a tightly bundled trio of bridges, each one entirely unalike the others.

It has now been a month since the Gotthard Base Tunnel was unveiled in Switzerland. Begun seventeen years ago, the project cuts a level passage beneath the Alps

Since I last wrote about the Mosul Dam two months ago, no concrete progress has been made in stemming the structure’s deterioration. Italian contractors seem to be closing

The UNESCO World Heritage List is a collection of historic sites and landscapes of “outstanding universal value”. Civil engineers worldwide were understandably pleased when this gushing label was