Jay Ellis
Self - Host
How Did They Build That? (2021)
Season 3
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
S3E1 - Fantastic & Futuristic
A sculptural new transportation hub for New York's World Trade Center is beset by challenges. Then, Amsterdam gains a striking building inspired by a mountain valley, and a new launchpad for space travel prepares for liftoff.
Aug. 18, 2024, midnight
S3E2 - Jungles & Bricks
A gravity defying university building in Sydney, Australia, is clad in 320,000 bricks. Engineers grapple with making an angular arts center tornado proof in Oklahoma. And a plant-filled office building.
Aug. 25, 2024, midnight
S3E3 - Canyons & Curves
Engineers grapple with an apartment building, ripped apart by a man-made canyon. The iconic Gateway Arch takes shape in St Louis, Missouri. And an unpromising plot in Copenhagen is transformed by a gleaming new triangular office building.
Sept. 1, 2024, midnight
S3E4 - Parking & Sparkling
A dazzling new 1400 foot tapering skyscraper is built right next to New York's Grand Central. A curving wine museum requires ingenious engineering in Bordeaux, France. And possibly the world's most glamorous parking garage.
Sept. 8, 2024, midnight
S3E5 - Heights & Balance
A 1.2 million square foot office building balances precariously on a 39 foot wide base in Chicago. A building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage. And the world's longest suspension footbridge is constructed in Czechia.
Sept. 15, 2024, midnight
S3E6 - Tricks & Trains
A new Olympic and Paralympic museum tests engineers with its trailblazing accessible design. A dazzling curved glass skyscraper battles gravity in Milan. And a student center built under a noisy railroad.
Sept. 22, 2024, midnight
S3E7 - Floating & Lifting
Architects and engineers build an eco-friendly convention center on Vancouver's waterfront, a lift bridge in Bordeaux and a cocoon-shaped skyscraper in Tokyo each with unique challenges like marine habitats and massive spans.
Sept. 29, 2024, midnight
S3E8 - Subways & Sightlines
A sculptural high-rise with rippling balconies breaks the mold in Chicago. Mammoth machines bore 26 miles of tunnels for an underground railroad beneath London's city streets.
Oct. 6, 2024, midnight
S3E9 - Curved & Cables
A new performance center with a tent-like glass-and-steel lobby tests engineers in Kansas City; two twisting apartment towers make heads spin in Ontario.
Oct. 13, 2024, midnight
S3E10 - Boxes & Birds
The American Museum of Natural History gets a cave-like extension; Boston University gains a tower.
Oct. 20, 2024, 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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