Episodes
How Did They Build That?: Breakthroughs & Bridges (S2EP8 Smithsonian Channel Sun August 28, 2022)
Breakthroughs & Bridges: To learn more about their construction processes, we travel to the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge in Seattle, and the Gherkin in London.
Airdate: Sun August 28, 2022 at 20:00 on Smithsonian Channel
Season 2 Episode 8
Across the globe, radical architects, ingenious engineers, and skilled builders are creating structures so outrageous, they defy logic…and often even gravity. From a Manhattan skyscraper that looks like a Jenga tower to a Singapore glass dome big enough to house a mountain to a high rise in Italy with a built-in forest, we examine the world’s most extraordinary buildings, bridges, and lifts, reveal their design secrets, and discover the incredible stories of their construction as we try to answer the question: How Did They Build That?