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"Engineer" is the core type for engineers of the built environment. "Structure" lists "Engineer" as a property to impart attribution. This is quite flexible: whether an engineer designed a Skyscraper (e.g. a Structural Engineer) or Bridge (e.g. a Civil Engineer) this type can be used (as the... more
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x Leslie E. Robertson   World Trade Center
Leslie Earl Robertson (born 1928) was one of the chief engineers of the World Trade Center in New York, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and was responsible for the design of the buildings' sway-reduction features. He has since...
Bank of China Tower
Shanghai World Financial Center
x Michel Virlogeux Millau-Viaduct-France-20070909 Millau Viaduct
Dr. Michel Virlogeux (born 1946, La Flèche, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire) is a French structural engineer and bridge specialist. Michel Virlogeux graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1967 and from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1970....
x S.G. Silhan   BT Tower  
x Joseph Strauss Joseph Strauss Golden Gate Bridge
Joseph Baermann Strauss (January 9, 1870 – May 16, 1938) was a German-American structural engineer and designer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to an artistic family of German origin, having a mother who was a pianist and a father who was a writer...
Burnside Bridge
Lewis and Clark Bridge
Cherry Street Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge
x John A. Roebling Roebling Brooklyn Bridge
John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling, June 12, 1806 in Mühlhausen - July 22, 1869) was a German-born civil engineer famous for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, in particular, the design of the Brooklyn Bridge. Roebling was the...
x Gustave Eiffel Gustave Eiffel Rouzat Viaduct
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923; French pronunciation: [efɛl], English: /ˈaɪfəl/), was a French structural engineer and entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the Eiffel Tower...
x Walter Hall   Fallingwater  
x Alberto Galvani   Villa d'Este  
x Tommaso Chiruchi   Villa d'Este  
x Edward Leader Williams   Barton Swing Aqueduct
Sir Edward Leader Williams (28 April 1828 – 1 January 1910) was an English civil engineer, chiefly remembered as the designer of the Manchester Ship Canal, but also heavily involved in other canal projects in north Cheshire. Williams was born in...
x Mark Whitby      
x Edmund Happold   Sydney Opera House
Professor Sir Edmund Happold (1930 - 12 January 1996), better known as Ted Happold, was a structural engineer and founder of Buro Happold. Happold was the son of Frank Happold, Professor of Biochemistry at Leeds University. After a grammar school...
Bootham School
Riyadh Conference Centre
Hyde Park Barracks, London
Centre Georges Pompidou
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x Ian Liddell   Millennium Dome
William Ian Liddell CBE FREng FIStructE Hon FRIBA is a structural engineer and the designer of London's Millennium Dome. He was one of the founding partners of Buro Happold and is a Royal Academy Visiting Professor of Engineering Design at Cambridge...
Sydney Opera House
The State Mosque, Sarawak
Globe Theatre, London
x Frank Newby   Boots Factory, Nottingham
Frank Newby (26 March 1926 – 10 May 2001) was one of the leading structural engineers of the 20th Century, working with such architects as Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, Eero Saarinen, Cedric Price, James Stirling, and the practice of Skidmore,...
Aviary at Regents Park Zoo
Skylon
Embassy of the United States in London
Faculty of Engineering Building, University of Leicester
x Aker Solutions    
Aker Solutions ASA (OSE: AKSO) is a Norwegian multinational provider of services related to engineering, construction, maintenance, modification and operation of both large and small industrial facilities. The company, with roots back to 1841, has...
x Jonas Moore   Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Sir Jonas Moore (1617-1679) was a mathematician, surveyor, Ordnance Officer and patron of astronomy. He participated in two of the most ambitious English civil engineering projects of the 17th century: the Great Level of the Fens and the building of...
x James Walker   Start Point Lighthouse
James Walker, FRS, (September 14, 1781-October 8, 1862) was an influential Scottish civil engineer of the first half of the 19th century. Walker was born in Falkirk and was apprenticed to his uncle Ralph Walker in approximately 1800, with whom he...
x Isambard Kingdom Brunel IKBrunelChains Thames Tunnel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship, and...
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Paddington station
x John Rennie Portrait of John Rennie, 1810, by Sir Henry Raeburn London Bridge
John Rennie (7 June 1761 - 4 October 1821) was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, and docks. Rennie, a farmer's younger son, was born at Phantassie, near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland, and showed a taste for mechanics...
Dundas Aqueduct
Margate Pier
Plymouth Breakwater
x Giovanni Baptista Cairato   Forteleza de Jesus (and city)
Giovanni Baptista Cairato was a 17th Century military engineer.  He was born in Milan. Between 1583 and 1696 he was the royal architect (arquitecto-mor) to Portuguese India.
Forteleza de Damão (Damão Grande)
Forteleza de Baçaim
Forteleza de Malacca
Forteleza de Mannar
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x Tiburzio Spannochi   Forte S João Baptista
Tiburzio Spannochi was a 16th Century military engineer.
Torre de Bugio
Filippo Terzi
Palace of Aljefaría
Castle of S Pedro de Jaca
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x Ponte Sobre a Ribeira de Almargem      
x Viaduct, Auto Estrada de Norte      
x S João Railway Bridge.      
x Edgar Cardoso   Ponte da Santa Clara  
Pontes de Albufeira no Gerês
Ponte sobre o Rio Douro
Monumento dos Descobertas,
Ponte Sobre a Ribeira de Almargem
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x Padre João Piscásio Cosmander   Forteleza de Elvas  
Forteleza de Juromena
Defenses of Campo Maior
Fortifications of Estremoz
Forteleza de San'Tiago
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x Conde de Schomberg   Fortifications Vila Viçosa  
Forte de S José da Ribamar
x Alexander Mitchell   Morecambe Bay Lighthouse
Alexander Mitchell, (13 April 1780 – 25 June 1868) was an Irish engineer who from 1802 was blind. He is known as the inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse. He was a native of Dublin, and received his formal education at Belfast Academy where he...
Cobh Lighthouse
Portland Breakwater Light
x Benjamin Baker BBaker Firth of Forth Rail Bridge
Sir Benjamin Baker KCB KCMG FRS (31 March 1840 – 19 May 1907) was an eminent British civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era. He helped develop the early underground railways in London with Sir John Fowler, but he is best known for...
Contractor Sir William Arrol, (of Tancred-Arrol)
London Underground “District Line”
St Louis Bridge
Consultant for Channel Bridge Project
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x John Fowler JohnFowler Torksey Bridge
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet Order of St Michael and St George (15 July 1817 – 10 November 1898) was a railway engineer in Victorian era|Victorian United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]]. He helped build the first underground railway...
Firth of Forth Rail Bridge
London Metropolitan Railway (Underground)
Listed buildings in Sheffield
Victoria Bridge Station
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x Thomas Bouch Thomas Bouch ILN Firth of Forth Rail Ferry Terminal
Sir Thomas Bouch (pronounced /ˈbaʊtʃ/) (25 February 1822 – 30 October 1880) was a British railway engineer in Victorian Britain. He was born in Thursby, Cumberland, England and lived in Edinburgh. He helped develop the caisson and the roll-on/roll...
Belah Viaduct
Bridge over River Esk (at Montrose) – replaced after Tay Bridge Disaster.
St Andrews, Leven and Crief Junction Railways.
The Tay Bridge
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x Sir William Willcocks   1st Aswan dam  
Nile Irrigation System
Assuit Barrage
Hindyia Barrage
x Sir Benjamin Baker   1st Aswan dam  
x Ove Arup Sydney Opera House Sails Gorilla House, London Zoo
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE (16 April 1895 – 5 February 1988) was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer, the founder of the internationally important firm of Arup and generally considered to be one of the foremost engineers of his time....
Penguin Pool, London Zoo
Highpoint I
Sydney Opera House
x Maurice Koechlin Maurice Koechlin Eiffel Tower
Maurice Koechlin (March 8, 1856 - January 14, 1946) was a French-Swiss structural engineer. Born in Buhl, Haut-Rhin, he studied at the lycée in Mulhouse then at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology under Carl Culmann. Much of his work was in...
Garabit viaduct
Statue of Liberty
x Émile Nouguier Émile Nouguier Eiffel Tower
Émile Nouguier (February 17, 1840 – February 20, 1898) was a French civil engineer and architect. He is famous for co-designing the Eiffel Tower, built 1887–1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France, the Garabit viaduct, the highest in...
x John Urpeth Rastrick Trevithick High Pressure Steam Engine - Project Gutenberg eText 14041 Ouse Valley Viaduct
John Urpeth Rastrick (26 January 1780 – 1 November 1856) was one of the first English steam locomotive builders. In partnership with James Foster, he formed Foster, Rastrick and Company, the locomotive construction company that built the Stourbridge...
x Reginald Turner   Palm House, Kew Gardens  
Palm House, Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Glasnevin Glasshouses
x Abdy Kermani   Achray Bridge  
x John Rennie John Rennie Ken Bridge
Sir John Rennie (30 August 1794 in England – 3 September 1874) was the second son of engineer John Rennie and brother of George Rennie. John Rennie was born at 27 Stamford Street, Blackfriars Road, London, on 30 Aug. 1794. He was educated by Dr....
x Pier Luigi Nervi Bourse-de-montreal Unesco Building, Paris
Pier Luigi Nervi (June 21, 1891 - January 9, 1979) was an Italian engineer and architect. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946-61. He is renowned...
Exhibition Hall, Centre National des Industries et des Techniques
Palazzo dello Sport
Palazzetto dello sport
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Turin
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x Jean Prouvé Maison coloniale jean prouve Exhibition Hall, Centre National des Industries et des Techniques
Jean Prouvé (8 April 1901 - 23 March 1984) was a French engineer and designer. His main achievement was transferring manufacturing technology from industry to architecture, without losing aesthetic qualities. Jean was born in Nancy. He grew up...
x Bernard Laffaille   Notre Dame, Royan  
x René Sarger   Notre Dame, Royan  
Covered Market, Royan
x Eugène Freyssinet   Basilica of St. Pius X
Eugène Freyssinet (13 July 1879 – 8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete. Freyssinet was born in at Objat, Corrèze, France. He worked in the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in...
x Kuno Boll   Phönix Rheinrohr Building  
x Paul Weidlinger   US Embassy, Athens  
x Pericles A. Sakellarios Periclessakellarios US Embassy, Athens
Perikles A. Sakellarios (September 1905 – March 1985), was one of the leading figures in Greek architecture between 1936 and 1985. Born in Corfu – Greece on 13 September 1905, first son of Aristidis Sakellarios and Thalia Mavrogianni. Attended...
x Mario Salvadori   US Embassy, Athens
Mario Salvadori (1907-1997) was a structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University. He was born in Rome, Italy in 1907. His father, an engineer who worked for the telephone company, became the chief...
x Arturo Damusso   Pirelli Tower  
x Artur Danusso      
x Arturo Danusso   Torre Velasca  
x Aldo Favini   Matri Misericordiae Church  
x E J Cook & Cº   St Alkmund's Church, Derby  
x S Jampel and Partners      
x Arup ArupLogo.gif Wiggins Teape HQ
Set up in 1963
x Legrand   Halle aux Blés (2)  
x Molinos   Halle aux Blés (2)  
x Bélanger   Halle aux Blés (3)  
x Ove Arup and Partners   Sir Thomas White Building  
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