Buildings and structures by type

thumb|Hotel Palazzo in Livorno, Italy A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator, and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, a business center with computers, printe

structure constructed to convey water

thumb|A wooden fence thumb|During the Cold War, West German trains ran through [[East Germany. This 1977 view shows how East German authorities placed fences near the tracks to keep potential defectors at bay]]

A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas. Chimneys are typically vertical, or as near as possible to vertical, to ensure that the gases flow smoothly, drawing air into the combustion in what is known as the stack, or chimney effect. The space inside a chimney is called the flue. Chimneys are adjacent to large industrial refineries, fossil fuel combustion facilities or part of buildings, steam locomotives and ships.

thumb|Gate from Bucharest (Romania) thumb|right|Art Nouveau gate of [[Castel Béranger (Paris)]] thumb|Candi bentar, a typical [[Indonesian gate that is often found on the islands of Java and Bali]]

thumb|right|The Colosseum, an amphitheatre in Rome (built 72–80 AD) thumb|Arles Amphitheatre, France: a Roman arena still used for [[bullfighting, plays, and summer concerts.]]

thumb|Madison Square Garden

thumb|right | Sarmatian Kurgan, fourth century BC, Fillipovka, South Urals, Russia. A dig led by [[Russian Academy of Sciences Archeology Institute Prof. L. Yablonsky excavated this kurgan in 2006. It is the first kurgan known to have been completely destroyed and then rebuilt to its original appearance.]]

thumb|260px|A marble pavilion, Red Fort, Delhi In architecture, pavilion has several meanings; It may be a subsidiary building that is either positioned separately or as an attachment to a main building. Often it is associated with pleasure. In palaces and traditional mansions of Asia, there may be pavilions that are either freestanding or connected by covered walkways, as in the Forbidden City (Chinese pavilions), Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, and in Mughal buildings like the Red Fort. As part of a large palace, pavilions may be symmetrically placed building blocks that flank (appear to join

architecture designed to minimize environmental and resource impact

thumb|Fishermen's shelter houses on [[Barreta Island, Portugal]]

thumb|Ribat of Monastir, [[Tunisia]]

thumb|300px|, an ancient marae constructed of stone on in the Society Islands of [[French Polynesia, restored in 1994]]

A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet Track in the Somerset Levels, England, which dates from the Neolithic age. Timber causeways may also be described as both boardwalks and bridges.

prefabricated building or house that consists of repeated sections

thumb|A decorated paifang in Shanghai A paifang, also known as a pailou, is a traditional style of Chinese architecture, often used in arch or gateway structures.

thumb|right|Guardhouse (built in 1915) located on the Kiryu Campus of Japan's Gunma University thumb|right|Guardhouse, Royal Military College of Canada thumb|The Hyakunin Bansho (former guard house) inside the former Imperial Palace, Edo Castle) was staffed by 100 [[samurai.|left]] thumb|Guardhouses were constructed in graveyards in the 1800s to prevent Body snatching|bodysnatching.|left|279x279px thumb|Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic|East German border guardhouse in Berlin, 1984|221x221px A guardhouse (also known as a watch house, guard building, guard booth, guard shack, secu

reinforced steel or lead structure enclosing a nuclear reactor

thumb|The restored lavoir at Bonnat, Creuse|Bonnat straddling a small stream A lavoir (, wash-house) is a public place set aside for the washing of clothes. Communal washing places were common in Europe until industrial washing was introduced, and this process in turn was replaced by domestic washing machines and by self-service laundries (British English: laundrette; American English: laundromat). The English word is borrowed from the French language, which also uses the expression , "public basin".

building constructed using prefabricated parts

natural or man-made structures that have the geometry of a honeycomb

pressurized building-size envelope

elevated sightseeing platform

real estate whose owner won't give up rights

thumb|450px|Terraces on Maungawhau / Mount Eden, marking the sites of the defensive palisades and ditches of this former pā

thumb|A bandstand built in 1912 stands in the grounds of the Horniman Museum in [[London ]] thumb|Bandstand at Sefton Park, [[Liverpool, England]] thumb|Victorian bandstand in Eastleigh, UK thumb|Ocean Park bandstand, Oak Bluffs, [[Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts ]] thumb|The bandstand in Ynysangharad War Memorial Park|Ynysangharad Park, [[Pontypridd, south Wales.]]

thumb|The ekklesia in Athens convened on a hill called the Pnyx In Ancient Greece, the ekklesiasterion (ἐκκλησιαστήριον) was the meeting place of the popular assembly (ekklesia) in a democratic Greek city-state (polis, plural poleis).

any location used for a concert or musical performance

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wells or reservoirs built as part of the temple complex near Indian temples

thumb|275px|Tōfuku-ji's sanmon (Japan's National Treasure)

structural element of a theater

sustainable construction practice

type of building

thumb|Traditional maneaba in Babaroroa, Arorae atoll, Kiribati thumb|Tenimanraoi maneaba in Betio, Kiribati The heart of any Kiribati community is its maneaba or meeting house. The maneaba is not just the biggest building in any village, it is the centre of village life and the basis of island and national governance.

thumb|Hale O Pi'ilani Heiau, near Hana, Hawaii|Hāna on [[Maui]] thumb|Pu'u O Mahuka Heiau thumb|Heiau, Mānoa Heritage Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2022-1025 thumb|An illustration of a heiau at Kealakekua Bay at the time of [[James Cook's third voyage, by William Ellis]]

Small convenience store in the Philippines

Israeli air raid shelter

thumb|Schloss Ludwigslust in Germany

thumb|"The Ropewalk in Edam" by Max Liebermann

A facility is a place for doing something, or a place that facilitates an activity. Types of facility include:

building for baking bread

house designed to annoy neighbors

thumb|Common setup of a Filipino carinderia

An ukay-ukay ( ) or wagwagan ( ) is a Philippine store where a mix of secondhand and surplus items such as clothes, bags, shoes and other accessories are sold at a more affordable price. Items commonly sold at ukay-ukays are imported from Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

building for secular purposes