Plot Synopsis

From an underground luxury hotel in China to an elevator ride to the top of the world, a bent copper-covered Manhattan skyscraper to the a 500m sky garden in Singapore, HOW DID THEY BUILD THAT? is a one-hour documentary series that explores and celebrates some of the most incredible feats of engineering. Traveling across the world in search of the answers, we meet the people who designed and built them and reveal the extraordinary modern engineering secrets that made these modern wonders possible. Beautiful, audacious and extraordinary, this is engineering on a scale and complexity never seen before. And this engineering is guaranteed to take your breath away. HOW DID THEY BUILD THAT? had its U.S. premiere on Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 9pm ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel.
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Season 2 of HOW DID THEY BUILD THAT? debuted on Smithsonian Channel on Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 8pm ET/PT. The season opener, "Riverparks & Artworks," visits the Hearst Tower in New York City, a 56,000-square-foot private museum named the Audain Museum in Vancouver, and Library Learning Centre in Vienna to learn about how they were built.