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How Did They Build That?
The engineering secrets behind the world's steepest mountain railway, a remodeled 145-year-old museum and a futuristic condo.
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The inside stories behind a new, horseshoe-shaped complex in Rotterdam, a rock-shaped opera house in China and a makeover of the British Museum.
Arctic Modules & Auditoria Date unknown
The engineering secrets behind a mobile research station in Antarctica, a gravity-defying concert hall on the Canary Islands, and a rotating boat lift in Scotland.
Boxes & Birds Date unknown
The American Museum of Natural History in NYC gets a cave-like extension; an arts center inspired by migrating birds is built on a lake in China; Boston University gains a fossil-free, Jenga-like tower.
Curved & Cables Date unknown
A new performance center with a tent-like glass-and-steel lobby tests engineers in Kansas City; two twisting apartment towers make heads spin in Ontario.
Elevated & Elegant Date unknown
Traveling from Canada to Belgium to the Southern U.S. to examine an eye-popping school, museum and railway station and reveal how they were built.
Facelifts & Scaffolds Date unknown
A new museum building bends 1,100-glass tubes to form a facade and tunnels below the water table. A vast 11-storey glass atrium HQ is built on the former Berlin Wall site to represent unity.
Heights & Balance Date unknown
A 1.2 million square foot office building balances precariously on a 39 foot wide base in Chicago. A building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage. And the world's longest suspension footbridge.
Radical & Resplendent Date unknown
Exploring the design and engineering stories behind D.C.'s Museum of African American History, the Montreal Tower and the Equinor building in Oslo.
Retrofits & Airport Glitz Date unknown
Visiting the Hearst Tower in Manhattan and Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore to understand how they were built; covering how designers and engineers attempt to create a museum worthy of Salvador Dali in Florida.
Skywalks & Suspensions Date unknown
Uncovering the design and engineering secrets behind the Grand Canyon Skywalk, the Audain Museum and more.
Speedcore & Steambend Date unknown
Peek inside a cloud-inspired library in Canada that's built over a live railway; see how clever engineering helped a huge Seattle skyscraper go up without harming its iconic neighbour, then cross an Australian bridge that floats above a busy river.
Steep & Stunning Date unknown
The engineering secrets behind the world's steepest mountain railway, a remodeled 145-year-old museum and a futuristic condo.
Biomes & Rebuilds Date unknown
A London railway station; giant Singapore biodomes; eye-catching hospital in Las Vegas.
Breakthroughs & Bridges Date unknown
Visiting London's Gherkin, Seattle's Evergreen Point Floating Bridge and Lyon's Musée des Confluences to uncover how and why they were built.
Cantilevers & Lifts Date unknown
An unstable high rise, an otherworldly museum, and a towering cliffside elevator.
Fantastic & Futuristic Date unknown
Challenges beset a sculptural new transportation hub for New York's World Trade Center; Amsterdam gains a building inspired by a mountain valley; a new launchpad for space travel prepares for liftoff in the New Mexico desert.
Floating Parks & Upcycled Towers Date unknown
On inadequate foundations, San Francisco's MOMA triples in size creating an exterior light enough to prevent collapse; a 1970s Sydney skyscraper is recycled into a 21st century tower; in Dallas, a five acre park is created.
Medals & Marinas Date unknown
Paying tribute to the brave, gravity-defying design of the U.S. National Medal of Honor Museum; traveling to Singapore for a look at a leaning tower of gambling, then exploring a New York City office building that lets the sun shine through.
Mirrors & Marble Date unknown
Visiting Australia's One Central Park, the Oslo Opera House and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to reveal their architectural secrets.
Parking & Sparkling Date unknown
A dazzling new 1400 foot tapering skyscraper is built right next to New York's Grand Central. A curving wine museum requires ingenious engineering in Bordeaux, France. And possibly the world's most glamorous parking garage.
Shipyards & Slender Builds Date unknown
A 284ft wooden skyscraper built from 1,200 bespoke pieces tests fire safety limits in Milwaukee. A decaying Amsterdam crane track transforms into elegant glass offices.
Sky Gardens & Seismic Stations Date unknown
The engineering secrets behind a massive sky garden in Singapore, the world's most slender tower in Brighton, and a railway station in the shadow of Vesuvius.
Space Stations and Super Date unknown
Celebrating one of humanities biggest engineering achievements, the International Space Station, a meteor proof lab bigger than a football field, constructed by astronauts traveling 250 miles above us at 17,500 miles an hour.
Subways & Sightlines Date unknown
A sculptural high-rise with rippling balconies breaks the mold in Chicago; Mammoth machines bore 26 miles of tunnels for an underground railroad beneath London's city streets.
Super Stadiums & Extraordinary Elevators Date unknown
A 70,000-seat stadium defies seismic forces and international flight paths in LA. Zaha Hadid's dramatically twisted 33-story tower rises around ancient vaults in Malta.
Summit & Submerge Date unknown
Building an eco-friendly visitor center in the permafrost on Colorado's Pikes Peak tests the team. A museum is constructed in a disused dry dock that's in danger of collapse.