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How Did They Build That? - Season 2

Episode List

Riverparks & Artworks
E1 - Riverparks & Artworks

Aired: July 10, 2022

Traveling to New York, Denver and Nice, France to visit Little Island, the Denver Museum of Art and La Tête Carrée and revealing how they were built.

Swamps & Swagger
E2 - Swamps & Swagger

Aired: July 17, 2022

Engineers explain the constructions of architect Santiago Calatrava's university building in Florida, architect Frank Gehry's museum in Spain, and cultural center The Shed in New York City.

Retrofits & Airport Glitz
E3 - Retrofits & Airport Glitz

Aired: July 24, 2022

Experts explain the engineering behind the creation of architect Norman Foster's Hearst Tower in NYC, Jewel Changi airport in Singapore, and architect Yann Weymouth's Dali Museum in Florida.

Elevated & Elegant
E4 - Elevated & Elegant

Aired: July 31, 2022

See the architectural secrets behind a Canadian school on stilts, a sports museum that traces Louisiana’s history and an opulent train station in Belgium.

Skywalks & Suspension
E5 - Skywalks & Suspension

Aired: August 07, 2022

A glass bridge arcing over the Grand Canyon, the weather-resistant Audain Art Museum in Whistler, Canada, and Zaha Hadid's university library in Vienna are explored.

Upside Down & Under Sea
E6 - Upside Down & Under Sea

Aired: August 14, 2022

The innovative designs of the gravity-defying Vancouver House, the subaquatic Under restaurant and the cantilevered Seattle Central Library challenged engineers to think outside the box.

Steep & Stunning
E7 - Steep & Stunning

Aired: August 21, 2022

Experts explain how engineers built the world's steepest funicular railway in the Swiss Alps and how construction of Zaha Hadid's residential high-rise in Miami overcame a hurricane.

Breakthroughs and Bridges
E8 - Breakthroughs and Bridges

Aired: August 28, 2022

We visit London’s Gherkin, Seattles’s Evergreen Point floating bridge and Lyon’s Mysee des Confluences to uncover how and why they were built.

Mirrors and Marble
E9 - Mirrors and Marble

Aired: September 04, 2022

We visit Australia’s One Central Park, The Oslo Opera house and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to reveal their architectural secrets.

Radical & Resplendant
E10 - Radical & Resplendant

Aired: September 18, 2022

A look at the design and engineering stories behind DC’s Museum of African American History, the Montreal tower and the Equinor building in Oslo