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Built to withstand earthquakes and sinking ships, in the early 21st century it carries around 75, 000 vehicles a day.
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Built and withstand
Built to withstand typhoon winds and earthquake tremors, the building incorporates many engineering innovations.
Built to withstand the hottest of Weatherby's experimental cartridges ( which were exceeding 100, 000 psi ).
Built during the Great Depression by only local workers, it was designed to withstand hurricanes.
Built and ships
Built by the Rakatan Infinite Empire nearly 30, 000 years prior, the Star Forge siphoned matter from a nearby star and could create an almost limitless number of ships.
Built in 1878, also by Stothert & Pitt, it was in regular use until 1973 loading and unloading ships and railway wagons with loads up to 35 tons.
Built in 1914 as Grossherzog Friedrich August, a school training ship for the German merchant marine, the since 1921 Norwegian-owned Statsraad Lehmkuhl is one of the oldest sail training ships in service
Later retitled The Port That Built a City and State, the series was produced by Bentley until 1965 and included then-novel live remotes from the decks of ships in Baltimore harbor during the early years of television.
Built in the 2240s, EAS Hyperion is one of the few EarthForce ships to survive the Earth-Minbari war.
Built before the Dilgar War their job was to be convoy escorts and at times escorts for EarthForce capital ships.
Built more than 1400 years before the first Viking ships appeared in Scandinavia.
Built and early
Built on a four pass offense, Dale remains steadfast when a player disobeys him in an early season game, keeping him on the bench and playing with four players after another fouls out.
Built over in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it contains many fine examples of substantial Georgian and Victorian houses – most notably Michael Searles ' crescent of semi-detached terrace houses linked by colonnades, The Paragon ( c 1793-1807 ) – as well as some 1930s and 1960s additions.
Built originally in the early 1870s on land adjoining Rotherhithe Workhouse, it became the infirmary of St Olave's Union in 1875, and was renamed St Olave's Hospital in 1930.
File: LaFayette, AL Presbyterian Church ( 1836 ). JPG | Built by early settlers to the area, the LaFayette Presbyterian Church has stood since 1836.
Built in the late 1920s by Standard Oil Company, the building housed a U. S Experimental Station in the early 1920s that began flying mail for the US Post Office.
Built in the early 20th century on the site of the old Dolphin Inn.
Built on marshy ground, for much of its history Reedsport has struggled with frequent flooding ; most of its early buildings were elevated three to eight feet above ground.
* Powis Castle, Powys: Built by the Prince of Powys in the late 13th century, with notable interiors from the 1580s, the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and the early 20th century.
Built during Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods, it is probably on the site of an even earlier timber church.
Built in the early 1900s by the Krupp family for their coal mine workers, the modest and tastefully designed two-family houses were to enable self-sufficiency by providing gardens and a stall for a cow.
Built near the site of the ancient Greek colony of Phasis and deriving its name from the same, the city has become a major port city and industrial center since the early 20th century.
Built in 1873 as an opera house, the theater was rebuilt to Spanish Colonial Revival style designs by architects George Washington Smith and Lutah Maria Riggs for the Community Arts Music Association in the early 1920s, and opened in August 1924, during a period in which civic groups in Santa Barbara were beginning to unify the town's architectural look around a Spanish Colonial style.
Built about 1750 for the Bryan family, early settlers in North Milford.
This can be seen as early as 1989 in the song " Road to the Riches " where he makes a reference to Al Pacino ( who plays mobster Tony Montana in the 1983 crime drama movie Scarface ) – this was long before albums such as Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx … ( 1995 ), and Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt ( 1996 ) made such references popular.
* Starstreak Avenger: Built to a U. S. Army requirement in the early 1990s this system integrated the Starstreak missile on the Boeing Avenger vehicle, replacing 1 pod of Stinger missiles with 1 pod of 4 Starstreak and modifying the fire control system accordingly.
Built by Hawker Siddeley during the early 1960s.
Built by Hawker Siddeley in the early 1960s.
Built from 1406 to 1420, the Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the early Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Built originally on the orders of William I to dominate the former Viking city of York, the castle suffered a tumultuous early history before developing into a major fortification with extensive water defences.
Built mainly between 1268 and 1271 to stop Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's southward ambitions, it is an early example of a concentric castle with extensive water defences.
Built by William Wickings in 1814, it is one of the best preserved early 19th century churches in London.
Built around a harbour, it has a particular wealth of vernacular buildings from the 17th to early 19th centuries, many restored by the National Trust for Scotland, and is a favourite subject for artists.
* Church of Saint John of Alporão ( Igreja de São João de Alporão ): Built between the 12th and the 13th centuries by the Knights Hospitallers, this church is a fine example of transitional architecture, with a Romanesque main portal and an early Gothic main chapel and vaulting.
Built and 21st
Built by the Greys in 1784, the folly is, by local legend, a memorial to John, an estate worker killed in a bonfire accident during celebrations of the 21st birthday of the future eighth Earl of Stamford.
Built and century
Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the success of the finished engine indicated that Babbage's machine would have worked.
Built soon after the conquest of northwest Africa, the first mosque built in this region is the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ) founded by the Umayyad general Uqba Ibn Nafi during the second half of the 7th century and considered as the oldest place of worship in the western Islamic world.
Built in several stages, the continuing evolution of its design joined Gothic construction and decoration with Renaissance ideals, as seen in the tombs and the 17th and 18th century Granadan art in the Chapel of Santa Cruz.
Built from the 3rd to the 12th centuries, the ramparts were largely destroyed between the beginning of the 16th century and the 1860s.
Built as a fortress in the 13th century it has since served as house, library and prison.
Built in the 39th century BC, during the Neolithic period, the track consisted of crossed poles of ash, oak and lime ( Tilia ) which were driven into the waterlogged soil to support a walkway that mainly consisted of oak planks laid end-to-end.
Built in the 14th century and later renovated in Baroque style, facing the Cathedral.
Built at the turn of the 19th century, they were originally used to store grain and similar products, but now house exhibitions of the City's Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum.
Built in the middle of the town that it effectively controlled, the château of Blois comprises several buildings constructed from the 13th to the 17th century around the main courtyard.
Built 16th-17th century.
Built in the 20th century, it is smaller than St Leonard's, though has a larger congregation, and is popular among families who send their children to the local Rosary RC Junior School.
Built by Hugues d ' Amboise in the middle of the fifteenth century, it was acquired in 1490 by Charles VIII of France for his wife, Anne de Bretagne.
Built between 1157 and 1217, the collegiate church had a cloister and was a place of pilgrimage in the 12th century, and Museum du Cloitre de Notre-Dame-en-Vaux 12th century.
Built by Benedictine monks in the 12th century, it was totally restored in the 16th century under the direction of Giorgio Vasari.
Built 1846 There were a few homes built in Essex Village during the first half of the 18th century.
Built near a vein of clay useful in the manufacture of bricks and with a railroad line passing through the city, Plainville grew as a brick-building city through the 20th century.
Built as the Metropolitan Opera House in 1899, it presented plays, operas, and vaudeville in the town during the first half of the twentieth century, and today is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Built late 18th century, restored 1937.
* Täby Church: Built in the 13th century.
Built in stages through the seventeenth century out of the local Cotswold limestone, space restrictions saw the south-side of the Quad built directly on top of the old City Wall.
Built in the late 20th century ( informally known as " Tommy White Quad ").
* Castell Coch, South Glamorgan: Built on the foundations of a castle of the late 13th century by William Burges in 1871-91 as a summer residence for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute.
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