Jay Ellis
Self - Host
How Did They Build That? (2021)
Season 2
An exploration of how some of the world's biggest man-made structures were built.
Released Jan. 3, 2021
Episode 43 min
None+
Genres: Documentary, Reality TV
Watch Providers: fuboTV, Pluto TV, Spectrum On Demand, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ Amazon Channel + 4 more, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Philo, YouTube TV
Production Companies: Curve Media
Network: Smithsonian Channel
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Riverparks & Artworks
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.
July 10, 2022, midnight
S2E2 - Swamps & Swagger
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.
July 17, 2022, midnight
S2E3 - Retrofits & Airport Glitz
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.
July 24, 2022, midnight
S2E4 - Elevated & Elegant
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.
July 31, 2022, midnight
S2E5 - Skywalks & Suspension
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.
Aug. 7, 2022, midnight
S2E6 - Upside Down & Under Sea
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.
Aug. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E7 - Steep & Stunning
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.
Aug. 21, 2022, midnight
S2E8 - Breakthroughs and Bridges
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.
Aug. 28, 2022, midnight
S2E9 - Mirrors and Marble
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.
Sept. 4, 2022, midnight
S2E10 - Radical & Resplendant
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
Sept. 18, 2022, midnight
Network: Smithsonian Channel
Episode Runtime: 43 min.
Season Runtime: 1634 min.
Released: Jan. 3, 2021
Last Air Date: Oct. 5, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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