How Did They Build That?

Season 3

10 episodes · Aug 18, 2024

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  • S3E1

    Fantastic & Futuristic

    Aug 18, 202443m

    A sculptural new transportation hub for New York's World Trade Center is beset by challenges. Then, Amsterdam gains a striking building inspired by a mountain valley, and a new launchpad for space travel prepares for liftoff.

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  • S3E2

    Jungles & Bricks

    Aug 25, 202443m

    A gravity defying university building in Sydney, Australia, is clad in 320,000 bricks. Engineers grapple with making an angular arts center tornado proof in Oklahoma. And a plant-filled office building.

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  • S3E3

    Canyons & Curves

    Sep 1, 202445m

    Engineers grapple with an apartment building, ripped apart by a man-made canyon. The iconic Gateway Arch takes shape in St Louis, Missouri. And an unpromising plot in Copenhagen is transformed by a gleaming new triangular office building.

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  • S3E4

    Parking & Sparkling

    Sep 8, 202445m

    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.

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  • S3E5

    Heights & Balance

    Sep 15, 202445m

    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 is constructed in Czechia.

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  • S3E6

    Tricks & Trains

    Sep 22, 202445m

    A 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.

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  • S3E7

    Floating & Lifting

    Sep 29, 202445m

    Architects 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.

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  • S3E8

    Subways & Sightlines

    Oct 6, 202445m

    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.

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  • S3E9

    Curved & Cables

    Oct 13, 202445m

    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.

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  • S3E10

    Boxes & Birds

    Oct 20, 202445m

    The American Museum of Natural History gets a cave-like extension; Boston University gains a tower.

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