Season 8 · Episode 3 — The Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi
The Capital Gate building will create an iconic and avant-garde entrance to the city of Abu Dhabi. Leaning at a whopping 18 degrees westward, the tower will claim the Guinness Book of World Records title of Most Inclined Building on Earth. Discover how the engineers and architects overcome the force of gravity, and transform this vision into reality.
Season 8 episodes
E1As the World's insatiable need for oil and gas grows, companies are going deeper, into more hostile environments than ever before. Watch as…
E2Incredible technology is making these 'super copters' much more impervious to attack, with Kevlar and other advanced composite materials st…
E3The Capital Gate building will create an iconic and avant-garde entrance to the city of Abu Dhabi. Leaning at a whopping 18 degrees westwar…
E4South Korea never constructed a submerged tunnel, but now tackles the challenge of building one of the deepest immersed highways on Earth.…
E5"I love what I do. I get to tear stuff up." Every day around the world, thousands of planes, trains, and automobiles get cut down to size f…
E6The renovated California Academy of Sciences - the world's largest green public building - emerges from the landscape of Golden Gate Park.…
E7Locomotives don't last forever. Eventually they go to a scrap yard to die. Their parts are cut up, melted down and ultimately reformed into…
E8Plans to erect a spaceport in the middle of a desert.
E9To save one of the most iconic engineering wonders of all time requires the creation of another masterpiece: the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge.
E10How much military power does it take to sink a top naval warship? Experience the mission at the hands of the US and Canadian Navy and Air F…
E17Locomotives don't last forever. Eventually they go to a scrap yard to die. Their parts are cut up, melted down and ultimately reformed into…
E20As the World's insatiable need for oil and gas grows, companies are going deeper, into more hostile environments than ever before. Watch as…
E21Incredible technology is making these 'super copters' much more impervious to attack, with Kevlar and other advanced composite materials st…
E23The Capital Gate building will create an iconic and avant-garde entrance to the city of Abu Dhabi. Leaning at a whopping 18 degrees westwar…
E32To save one of the most iconic engineering wonders of all time requires the creation of another masterpiece: the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge.
E35How much military power does it take to sink a top naval warship? Experience the mission at the hands of the US and Canadian Navy and Air F…