Megastructures: Singapore's Vegas
Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands is one of the world’s most complicated construction projects.
Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands is one of the world’s most complicated construction projects.
What do you get if you take sixty thousand tons of steel, 260,000 cubic meters of concrete, 2000 dedicated Chinese workers and the best design brains in the business? The Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC).
Over the centuries China has produced some of the world's greatest engineering feats from The Great Wall to The Forbidden City. The Deep Water Port at Yangshan is on track to becoming China's latest record breaking construction feat as the biggest deep water port ever built.
When Beijing hosts the 2008 Olympics, the eyes of the world will be riveted on the National Swimming Centre - aka the Water Cube. We go behind the scenes to discover more about a building destined to become one of this century's leading architectural feats.
China’s Pearl River Tower is the world’s first super-tall smart building. With its revolutionary aerodynamic shape, the Pearl River Tower sets the benchmark for building designs of the future.
On the banks of the Pearl River in Guangzhou city, an impressive new silhouette is placing China’s third largest city firmly in the limelight. The Guangzhou Sightseeing and TV Tower is a shrine to modern technology and design–and testimony to the vision of a small architectural team who dared to dream big.
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