About this season
An insight into how engineering icons of the past are transformed into inspirational beacons of the future.
Episodes (8)
1. Episode 1
Aired 25 November 2022 • 45 min
Explores how Britain's National Gallery, The Tate, stepped in to help the Bankside on the southern shore of the River Thames.
2. Episode 2
Aired 2 December 2022 • 45 min
Explores the St Louis Rail Station, and how it went from being the biggest in the United States to falling into disrepair.
3. Episode 3
Aired 9 December 2022 • 44 min
An old and deserted dry dock is transformed into an amazing subterranean museum, after the engineers drain the entire ground and build a new concrete base.
4. Episode 4
Aired 16 December 2022 • 44 min
A look at the Port Building, a stunning, gravity-defying office complex building that appears to hover over a 19th-century fire station, and uses a borehole energy system that makes it one of the most energy efficient buildings in Europe.
5. Episode 5
Aired 23 December 2022 • 44 min
The story behind the Seoullo 7017 overpass, a 1km bridge that once symbolised the polluted heart of Seoul and has been turned into a garden home to 24,000 indigenous species of plants.
6. Episode 6
Aired 30 December 2022 • 43 min
First constructed in the 1930s, the West Side Line, an elevated viaduct section of the New York Central Railroad, was abandoned in the 1980s.
7. Episode 7
Aired 6 January 2023 • 42 min
In Hong Kong, an old WWII detention centre is transformed into a gleaming new university, while respecting the old buildings beneath.
8. Episode 8
Aired 13 January 2023 • 44 min
After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the seas around Bahrain became damaged through increased shipping and spillages, and sea life was decimated.