How Did They Build That?

Season 2

10 episodes · Jul 10, 2022

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  • Riverparks & Artworks
    S2E1

    Riverparks & Artworks

    Jul 10, 202242m

    Traveling to New York, Denver and Nice, France to visit Little Island, the Denver Museum of Art and La Tête Carrée and revealing how they were built.

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  • Swamps & Swagger
    S2E2

    Swamps & Swagger

    Jul 17, 202242m

    Engineers explain the constructions of architect Santiago Calatrava's university building in Florida, architect Frank Gehry's museum in Spain, and cultural center The Shed in New York City.

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  • Retrofits & Airport Glitz
    S2E3

    Retrofits & Airport Glitz

    Jul 24, 202242m

    Experts explain the engineering behind the creation of architect Norman Foster's Hearst Tower in NYC, Jewel Changi airport in Singapore, and architect Yann Weymouth's Dali Museum in Florida.

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  • Elevated & Elegant
    S2E4

    Elevated & Elegant

    Jul 31, 202242m

    See the architectural secrets behind a Canadian school on stilts, a sports museum that traces Louisiana’s history and an opulent train station in Belgium.

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  • Skywalks & Suspension
    S2E5

    Skywalks & Suspension

    Aug 7, 202242m

    A glass bridge arcing over the Grand Canyon, the weather-resistant Audain Art Museum in Whistler, Canada, and Zaha Hadid's university library in Vienna are explored.

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  • Upside Down & Under Sea
    S2E6

    Upside Down & Under Sea

    Aug 14, 202245m

    The innovative designs of the gravity-defying Vancouver House, the subaquatic Under restaurant and the cantilevered Seattle Central Library challenged engineers to think outside the box.

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  • Steep & Stunning
    S2E7

    Steep & Stunning

    Aug 21, 202245m

    Experts explain how engineers built the world's steepest funicular railway in the Swiss Alps and how construction of Zaha Hadid's residential high-rise in Miami overcame a hurricane.

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  • Breakthroughs and Bridges
    S2E8

    Breakthroughs and Bridges

    Aug 28, 202245m

    We visit London’s Gherkin, Seattles’s Evergreen Point floating bridge and Lyon’s Mysee des Confluences to uncover how and why they were built.

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  • Mirrors and Marble
    S2E9

    Mirrors and Marble

    Sep 4, 202245m

    We visit Australia’s One Central Park, The Oslo Opera house and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to reveal their architectural secrets.

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  • Radical & Resplendant
    S2E10

    Radical & Resplendant

    Sep 18, 202245m

    A look at the design and engineering stories behind DC’s Museum of African American History, the Montreal tower and the Equinor building in Oslo

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