How Did They Build That? (2021)

Season 3

An exploration of how some of the world's biggest man-made structures were built.

Released Jan. 3, 2021 Episode 44 min None+

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Production Companies: Curve Media

Network: Smithsonian Channel

Country: United States
Languages: English

IMDb

7.6

/52/

Trakt

/17/

TMDb

/2/

Jay Ellis
Self - Host

S3E1 - Fantastic & Futuristic

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.

Aug. 18, 2024, midnight

S3E2 - 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.

Aug. 25, 2024, midnight

S3E3 - 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.

Sept. 1, 2024, midnight

S3E4 - 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.

Sept. 8, 2024, midnight

S3E5 - 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.

Sept. 15, 2024, midnight

S3E6 - 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.

Sept. 22, 2024, midnight

S3E7 - 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.

Sept. 29, 2024, midnight

S3E8 - 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, midnight

S3E9 - 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, midnight

S3E10 - Boxes & Birds

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

Oct. 20, 2024, midnight

Smithsonian Channel

44 min/ep

1675 min

Jan. 3, 2021

Oct. 5, 2025, midnight

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