MegaStructures (2004) season 4 - episode list, synopsis, cast and crew

Episode 1

25 August 2007 - 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.

Episode 2

14 July 2007 - Ultimate Structures: Super Copter

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 3

16 July 2007 - Queen Mary 2

Megastructures will take you on a voyage through the largest ocean liner ever built, from the cutting of the first steel panel to the installation of the iconic red and black funnel of this 800 million dollar giant of the seas.

Episode 4

06 November 2007 - South Pole Station

Welcome to the South Pole, one of the most isolated places on the planet. For decades, the South Pole has been a haven for astronomy, climatology, and other science fields. Now, nearly 50 years after the first research station was built, a team of mega-builders is daring to construct a 21st century science research facility: the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

Episode 5

13 May 2008 - Beijing Water Cube

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 6

15 May 2008 - Episode 6

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 7

16 May 2008 - Episode 7

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 8

20 May 2008 - Episode 8

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 9

27 May 2008 - Deep Ocean Port (China's Ultimate Port)

In 2002 Chinese engineers and workers tackled one of the biggest construction projects on earth. Thirty kilometers out to sea in the middle of the ocean is the location for Yangshan Deep Water Port. With twenty kilometers of quay and fifty berths Yangshan is destined to become the biggest deepwater port ever built. Linked to China by the worlds second-longest ocean bridge Yangshans deep water allows the worlds biggest container ships to come calling. Its massive cranes cutting-edge control system and focused personnel are already shattering records for loading and unloading gigantic container ships and its not even finished being built.

Episode 10

29 May 2008 - Episode 10

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 11

04 June 2008 - The World's Biggest Cruiseliner

Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".

Episode 12

05 August 2008 - Beijing Olympic Stadium

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 13

- Episode 13

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 14

- Episode 14

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 15

07 February 2012 - Future Trains

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 16

23 July 2007 - Building the World

The engineering, design and construction of a man-made archipelago, built in the shape of a world map, just off the coast off Dubai, the project of ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Episode 17

- Episode 17

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 18

- Building Green Beijing

Embarking on a quest to design and build a meeting place for athletes and their families at the Games, the designers of the Olympic Rendezvous must come up with a design that genuinely reflects green ideas and complements the green themed games.

Episode 19

31 July 2008 - Atom Smasher

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 21

- Ultimate Structures: Super Sub

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 22

- Sun Engine

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 23

- Super Pipeline

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 24

26 August 2007 - Hawaii Superferry

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 25

- Extreme Alaska

Building Extreme Alaska is about how nature engineered and built America's most rugged state, rock by rock. The State of Alaska is a vast and powerful natural structure forged over millions of years and boasts some of the world's most extreme environments. Alaska is raw and radical - natural engineering - taken to its limit. The construction zone of mountains, volcanoes, glaciers and earthquakes still keep Alaska humming. Building Extreme Alaska leads you through the working parts of this natural mechanical engineering machine.

Episode 26

- World Trade Center Bahrain

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 27

- The World's Biggest Shredder

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 28

- Impossible Hotels: Dubai

Looks at the design, engineering and construction of the luxury Burj Al-Arab Hotel, built of the coast of Dubai.

Episode 31

30 November 2011 - Building Green Beijing

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 32

- 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.

Episode 33

- Impossible Hotels: Dubai

Looks at the design, engineering and construction of the luxury Burj Al-Arab Hotel, built of the coast of Dubai.

Episode 34

- Building the World

The engineering, design and construction of a man-made archipelago, built in the shape of a world map, just off the coast off Dubai, the project of ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

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