architectural videos: Megastructures :China by National Geographic

video topic: Architecture, Design, industry
entry type: documentary series
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video title: Megastructures :China: Impossible Bridges, Beijing Water Cube,China's Ultimate Port, Shanghai Super Tower, Beijing Olympic Stadium, World's Biggest Casino

architect featured: mixed
series host: National Geographic, Five, France 5
video series: Megastructures
Presenter: Jonathan Hart, Tom Goodman-Hill, Greg Stebner, Marlon Singleton
Producer: Hoff Productions(National Geographic)

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From the iconic Great Wall to Beijing’s National Aquatics Centre to Shanghai’s tallest skyscraper,China is on the rise.

Megastructures: China

From the iconic Great Wall to Beijing’s National Aquatics Centre to Shanghai’s tallest skyscraper and the world’s largest deepwater port, China is on the rise and set to make its indelible mark on the world in 2008 – even before the Olympic Games.

Episode list:

1. "Impossible Bridges: China" // Lupu, Runyang, and Sutong bridges
2. "Beijing Water Cube" // Beijing National Aquatics Center
3. "China's Ultimate Port" (Deep Sea Port) // Yangshan Port
4. "Shanghai Super Tower" // Shanghai World Financial Centre
5. "Beijing Olympic Stadium" //Birds Nest
6. "World's Biggest Casino" // World's biggest casino sited in Macau, Southern China

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Impossible Bridges: China
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Go inside the construction of China's three ultimate bridges: the Lupu, the world’s longest arch bridge; the Runyang, China’s largest suspension bridge; and the Sutong, soon to be the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world. The engineering challenges? Building them tall enough for huge cargo ships and strong enough for earthquakes and typhoons.

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Beijing Water Cube
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In Beijing a building like no other has emerged. It is a bold experiment in architecture and a cutting-edge vision of construction eco-engineering. When Beijing hosts the 2008 Olympics the eyes of the world will be riveted on this building. Its official name is the National Aquatics Centre but in the world of mega-architecture it is reverently known as the Water Cube. It's a brilliant fantasia of steel and plastic – a honeycomb of 22,000 steel beams supporting pillows of high tech plastic inflated onto shimmering translucent bubbles. Go behind the scenes to learn more about the vision that saw the creation of a building destined to become one this century's leading architectural feats.

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China's Ultimate Port
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One of the biggest construction projects on Earth is in the middle of the ocean. More than 30 kilometres out to sea off the coast of Shanghai, China’s Yangshan Port will be the biggest deep water port ever built. When completed in 2020, its wharves will be an awesome 20 kilometres long, with berths for 50 ships, capable of handling 25 million shipping containers a year. A huge feat considering when the project began, only 40 percent of the port’s island existed. A Mega-dredge has already moved enough mud to fill more than one million Olympic swimming pools, but there is still 13 billion cubic metres of mud that need to be dredged to complete the project. To make this port viable against its high profile rivals, construction requires not one, but two Megastructures to be built. In addition to the actual port, a 32-kilometre bridge must also be constructed connecting Yangshan to the mainland. More than 12 times longer than the Golden Gate Bridge, the Donghai Bridge is the second longest ocean spanning bridge in the world. Many of the more than 600 concrete spans used to build the bridge are so big, they must be constructed on land and then towed to sea.

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Shanghai Super Tower
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What do you get if you take sixty thousand tons of steel, 260,000 cubic meters of concrete, 500 dedicated Chinese workers and the best design brains in the business? The Shanghai World Financial Centre. At 101 floors high it will not only be the tallest building on the Chinese mainland but one that can withstand the toughest challenges Planet Earth can throw at a skyscraper... and even deadlier human threats.

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Beijing Olympic Stadium
aka Man made Beijing Olympic Stadium
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Nicknamed the "Birds Nest", 42,000 tons of steel and hundreds of tons of concrete went into creating the main stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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World's Biggest Casino
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World's Largest Casino follows the construction of the world's biggest casino and its second biggest building. It's being sited in Macau, in Southern China, which is being groomed to be Asia's capital of gambling. The Venetian is to be built by the Sands Corporation of Las Vegas, and is to feature a giant hotel with 3000 suites, a 15,000 seat arena, a theatre, event halls, 350 shops along indoor canals hundreds of metres long, an outdoor lagoon for gondola rides, and above all, a huge casino floor the size of eight football pitches. We follow the reclamation of land between two islands for this project, and watch it fly up in record time due to special working methods being devised – from on-site factories, to having prefabricated parts trucked in from China. We see how the ambitious designs are brought to reality, despite the pressures and an environment that's very different from America, both in terms of climate and culture. We go in-depth into the amazing concern for detail in the outfitting and decoration which will turn a giant concrete conglomeration of structures into a place designed to entice people to stay as long as possible. Andwe meet the people responsible for putting the project together, and see how they co-operate to get the resort open on time. But will the public come to visit this US$2.4bn megastructure? There's no guarantee...

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Megastructures :China by National Geographic

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