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Zaha Hadid cuts the top off a mountain and builds a museum inside. A Vancouver tower rises clean over a 115-year-old church. And starchitect Santiago Calatrava spans 7 live railway tracks with a column-free glass and steel station.

Zaha Hadid cuts the top off a mountain and builds a museum inside. A Vancouver tower rises clean over a 115-year-old church. And starchitect Santiago Calatrava spans 7 live railway tracks with a column-free glass and steel station.

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S1, EP2 "Towers & Roofs"

A Manhattan high-rise; an Athens cultural center; a Singapore university.

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S2, EP6 "Upside Down & Under Sea"

Visiting the Vancouver House, Norway's Under restaurant and the Seattle Central Library to discover how these visionary buildings were created.

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S5, EP10 "Sculptures & Skyscrapers"

Engineers create impossibly shaped buildings: Albany's Egg, a huge, sculpted theatre space, fit for a Rockefeller; a floating fortress in LA, protecting $2bn in art; and giant New York offices towering over America's busiest com.

How Did They Build That?

S5, EP7 "Summits & Spires"

Zaha Hadid cuts the top off a mountain and builds a museum inside. A Vancouver tower rises clean over a 115-year-old church. And starchitect Santiago Calatrava spans 7 live railway tracks with a column-free glass and steel station.

How Did They Build That?

S5, EP10 "Sculptures & Skyscrapers"

Engineers create impossibly shaped buildings: Albany's Egg, a huge, sculpted theatre space, fit for a Rockefeller; a floating fortress in LA, protecting $2bn in art; and giant New York offices towering over America's busiest com.

How Did They Build That?

S5, EP9 "Space Homes & Glass Waves"

NASA's 3D-printed Mars habitat rehearses human life on the red planet. Seoul's historic city hall gains a 13-story glass wave. And in Dallas, 68,000 square feet of concrete galleries balance on legs that want to splay open under.

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S5, EP8 "Wings & Waterlines"

Lord Foster's five-winged steel towers cool Abu Dhabi's national museum naturally; Robots 3D-print a steel bridge in Amsterdam & a concrete tower in Switzerland; and in Sydney, engineers pump out the harbour to build a fish market.

How Did They Build That?

S5, EP7 "Summits & Spires"

Zaha Hadid cuts the top off a mountain and builds a museum inside. A Vancouver tower rises clean over a 115-year-old church. And starchitect Santiago Calatrava spans 7 live railway tracks with a column-free glass and steel station.

Exploring the engineering and architectural masterpieces like The Copper in Manhattan to Gardens By the Bay in Singapore.
Original Air Date: Jan 3, 2021
Rating: TVG
Playback: HD
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