How Did They Build That? - Season 3

How Did They Build That? - Season 3

Season 3

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Episodes10
DatesAug 18, 2024 - Oct 20, 2024
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Episodes

Fantastic & Futuristic
Season 3Episode 160 min

Fantastic & Futuristic

A sculptural new transportation hub for New York's World Trade Center is beset by challenges. Amsterdam gains a striking building inspired by a mountain valley. And a new launchpad for space travel prepares for liftoff in the New Mexico desert.

Aug 18, 2024
Jungles & Bricks
Season 3Episode 260 min

Jungles & Bricks

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 made out of three giant spheres takes shape in Seattle.

Aug 25, 2024
Canyons & Curves
Season 3Episode 360 min

Canyons & Curves

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.
Sep 1, 2024
Parking & Sparkling
Season 3Episode 460 min

Parking & Sparkling

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.
Sep 8, 2024
Heights & Balance
Season 3Episode 560 min

Heights & Balance

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.
Sep 15, 2024
Tricks & Trains
Season 3Episode 660 min

Tricks & Trains

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.
Sep 22, 2024
Floating & Lifting
Season 3Episode 760 min

Floating & Lifting

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.
Sep 29, 2024
Subways & Sightlines
Season 3Episode 860 min

Subways & Sightlines

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.
Oct 6, 2024
Curved & Cables
Season 3Episode 960 min

Curved & Cables

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.
Oct 13, 2024
Boxes & Birds
Season 3Episode 1060 min

Boxes & Birds

The American Museum of Natural History gets a cave-like extension; Boston University gains a tower.
Oct 20, 2024

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