Season 4 · Episode 2 — Dubai's Dream Palace (Worlds Tallest Hotel)
Megastructures heads to the tiny desert kingdom of Dubai to explore the remarkable engineering behind the seven-star Burj Al-Arab Hotel. Five years in the making, this striking building stands like a gigantic white sail off the shore of Dubai. As this programme reveals, a refusal to compromise on the part of the hotel’s young designers ensured that the project pushed the boundaries of design. The Burj Al-Arab was envisaged by Dubai’s crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, as a means of diversifying the country’s economy away from oil into tourism. The Sheikh dreamt of a luxury hotel that would put Dubai on the world map, and surprised many by choosing a relatively inexperienced British firm to supply the design.
Season 4 episodes
E1E2Megastructures heads to the tiny desert kingdom of Dubai to explore the remarkable engineering behind the seven-star Burj Al-Arab Hotel. Fi…
E3E4Megastructures will take you on a voyage through the largest ocean liner ever built, from the cutting of the first steel panel to the insta…
E5E6Welcome to the South Pole, one of the most isolated places on the planet. For decades, the South Pole has been a haven for astronomy, clima…
E8E9In 2002 Chinese engineers and workers tackled one of the biggest construction projects on earth. Thirty kilometers out to sea in the middle…
E10E11Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
E12E13E14E15E16The engineering, design and construction of a man-made archipelago, built in the shape of a world map, just off the coast off Dubai, the pr…
E17E18Embarking on a quest to design and build a meeting place for athletes and their families at the Games, the designers of the Olympic Rendezv…
E19E20Lupu Bridge in Shanghai, Runyang Bridge in Jiangsu Province, and Sutong Bridge near Suzhou.
E21E22E23E24E25Building Extreme Alaska is about how nature engineered and built America's most rugged state, rock by rock. The State of Alaska is a vast a…
E26E27E28Looks at the design, engineering and construction of the luxury Burj Al-Arab Hotel, built of the coast of Dubai.
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