William H. Rideing, writing in Scribner's monthly in 1877, criticized the gatehouses, designed by the engineers George S. Greene and W. L. Dearborn, as "very conspicuous, and, also, very ugly because they pretend to be decorative".
The Ōsaka World's Fair of 1970 included many air-supported structures, the largest of which was the U.S. Pavilion designed by the engineers Geiger Berger Associates; it had an oval plan 138 × 79 metres (460 × 262 feet), and the inflated domed roof of vinyl-coated fabric was restrained by a diagonally intersecting network of steel cables attached to a concrete compression ring at the perimeter.
In 1971, the three houses at 131-135 East 47th were demolished for a modern parking garage, designed by the engineer Eugene Ho.
In 1876 the shop was given a new building, with skylighted interior courts, designed by the engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel and architect Louis-Auguste Boileau. Louis-Auguste Boileau
The new waterway required more modern bridges, and the present Macombs Dam Bridge was completed in 1895, its 415-foot-long swing span designed by the engineer Alfred P. Boller with intricate iron fencing, gas lights and four distinctive control houses.
Along the way, see the best of the natural and man-made landscapes, from lush vegetation inhabited by egrets, heron and osprey, to landmarks including the bascule bridge designed by the engineer Joseph Strauss years before he designed the Golden Gate Bridge.
At the northwestern end of the boulevard stands the imposing pentagonal military citadel (1667 70), the best preserved of all the military buildings designed by the engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633 1707).
It was designed by the engineer Thomas Telford as part of the Ellesmere Canal, an ambitious project to connect the River Severn at Shrewsbury with the River Mersey at Ellesmere Port.
The Norden bombsight, a system for pinpointing a ground target from a bomber, was designed by the engineer Carl L. Norden and manufactured and improved during the war by his company, Carl L. Norden Inc., mainly in Manhattan, at sites on Lafayette and Varick Streets, and in Brooklyn.
Important examples of Baroque architecture emerged in Brazil during the 18th century, such as José Cardoso de Ramalho's Our Lady of Glory of Outeiro (1714 39) in Rio de Janeiro and the Church of Our Virgin of the Conception (1736 65) in Salvador (Bahia), designed by the engineer Manuel Cardoso da Sadanha.
The grandstands of La Zarzuela Racecourse in Madrid designed by the engineer E. Torroja and the architects C. Arniches and M. Dominguez are one of the world's most outstanding concrete constructions of the first half of the 20th century.
