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MegaStructures

Season 1
Take an eye-popping look at the greatest structures and machines ever created as we focus on some of the world's modern-day super-human miracles of construction.
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  1. S1 E1 - Beijing Water Cube
    May 12, 2008
    50min
    TV-G
    China has erected some of the greatest monuments on Earth. When they held the Olympic games in Beijing, the main stadium was a feat of architectural beauty It was up to engineers to design the Beijing Water Cube to match it.
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  2. S1 E2 - Shanghai Super Tower
    December 30, 1899
    50min
    TV-G
    Take 60,000 tons of steel, 260,000 cubic meters of concrete, 2,000 dedicated Chinese workers, and some of the best design brains in the business, and the Shanghai World Financial Center is what you get.
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  3. S1 E3 - China's Smart Tower
    November 25, 2010
    50min
    TV-G
    Typhoon winds to withstand, a rigid deadline to meet, and a towering goal no skyscraper had ever reached. The Pearl River Tower even generates its own power; it is the holy grail for mechanical engineers.
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  4. S1 E4 - Eco Ark
    March 26, 2011
    47min
    TV-G
    Planned to be one of the greenest buildings in Asia, and possibly the world, the Eco Ark aims to be a glowing example of how to turn a problem into a solution. Its walls are made completely out of recycled material.
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  5. S1 E5 - Singapore's Vegas
    December 30, 1899
    50min
    TV-G
    Singapore's Marina Bay Sands is one of the world's most complicated construction projects. Engineers must build 3 skyscrapers which will then hold a sky park as big as an aircraft carrier. If they succeed, they will have created a city unto itself.
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