MegaStructures Season 5, Episode 1: Beijing Water Cube

Bridge Breakdown

A historic bridge is being taken down and recycled, but the demolition team faces challenges while doing it.

60 min

747 Destruction

60 min

Shanghai Super Tower

The design and construction of the Shanghai World Financial Centre which, at 101 floors high, will be China's tallest structure.

60 min

China's Ultimate Port

60 min

Sinking an Aircraft Carrier

Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".

60 min

The World's Biggest Cruise Liner

The renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the air, the undulating living roof resembles a piece of the park flying as if by magic.

60 min

World's Biggest Casino

60 min

Icelandic Super Dam

This episode looks at the Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project in Iceland - an audacious engineering feat that includes the building of Europe's highest dam, the drilling of 30-mile-long tunnels and the construction of a gigantic underground power plant.

60 min

Beijing Olympic Stadium

60 min

Deep Earth Drillers

Mega Green Tech is in search of geothermal power.

60 min

World Trade Center Bahrain

60 min

Atom Smasher

The Large Hadron Collider is a titan of science. Built on an unsurpassed scale, scientists aim to capture the smallest particles in the universe.

60 min

South Pole Station

60 min

The World's Biggest Cruiseliner

Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".

60 min

Impossible Build

The renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park. Viewed from the air, the undulating living roof resembles a piece of the park flying as if by magic.

60 min

World Trade Center Bahrain

60 min

Grand Canyon Skywalk

60 min

Ultimate Skyscraper

60 min