An exploration into impressive man-made structures, investigating how new materials and cutting-edge technology allows engineers, builders and architects work to the limits of what is possible.
EPISODE 3
Episode 3
We visit Singapore to reveal the engineering secrets of the world's largest glasshouse roof and its forest of tropical trees. And in scorching hot Las Vegas we learn what happens when a man has a dream to build a hospital that makes a big impression.
EPISODE 4
Episode 4
We visit an extraordinary bridge that spans a vast valley and becomes the tallest in the world, a luxury hotel was built upside down in an abandoned quarry in China, and what happens when you build a forest in the sky in the middle of a city.
EPISODE 5
Episode 5
Discover how engineers built Zaha Hadid's Antwerp Port House, find out how 432 Park Avenue New York was built, and marvel at Kengo Kuma's Victoria and Albert Museum in Dundee, Scotland.
EPISODE 6
Episode 6
In this episode discover a giant arch full of apartments on top of a swamp, a rock shaped opera house, and the £100 million makeover of the British Library.
Scott Rummel
Robin Leach
Ned Williams
Hannah Demidowicz
Paul Heaney
Charles L. Bunce
