How Did They Build That?
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Boxes & BirdsS3 E10The 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 & CablesS3 E9A 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.
Subways & SightlinesS3 E8A 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.
Floating & LiftingS3 E7Architects and engineers build an eco-friendly convention center on Vancouver's waterfront, a lift bridge in Bordeaux and a cocoon-shaped skyscraper in Tokyo each with unique challenges like marine habitats and massive spans.
Tricks & TrainsS3 E6A new Olympic and Paralympic museum tests engineers with its trailblazing accessible design. A dazzling curved glass skyscraper battles gravity in Milan. And a student center built under a noisy railroad.
Heights & BalanceS3 E5A 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.
Parking & SparklingS3 E4A 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.
Canyons & CurvesS3 E3Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge.
Jungles & BricksS3 E2Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge.
Fantastic & FuturisticS3 E1Challenges 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.
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Exploring the engineering and architectural masterpieces like The Copper in Manhattan to Gardens By the Bay in Singapore.Cast
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