NaN/100 votes#1 - Dubai's Dream Palace (Worlds Tallest Hotel)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 8/25/2007
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.
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#2 - Ultimate Structures: Super Copter
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 7/14/2007
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#3 - Queen Mary 2
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 7/16/2007
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.
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#4 - South Pole Station
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/2007
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.
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#5 - Beijing Water Cube
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 5/13/2008
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#6 - Episode 6
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 5/15/2008
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#7 - Episode 7
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 5/16/2008
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#8 - Episode 8
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 5/20/2008
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#9 - Deep Ocean Port (China's Ultimate Port)
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 5/27/2008
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.
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#10 - Episode 10
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 5/29/2008
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#11 - The World's Biggest Cruiseliner
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 6/4/2008
Looks at the technological designs and construction of the huge cruiseliner "Freedom of the Seas".
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#12 - Beijing Olympic Stadium
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 8/5/2008
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#13 - Episode 13
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired Unknown
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#14 - Episode 14
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired Unknown
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#15 - Future Trains
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/2012
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#16 - Building the World
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 7/23/2007
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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#17 - Episode 17
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired Unknown
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#18 - Building Green Beijing
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired Unknown
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.
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#19 - Atom Smasher
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 7/31/2008
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#20 - Megabridges: China
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired Unknown
Lupu Bridge in Shanghai, Runyang Bridge in Jiangsu Province, and Sutong Bridge near Suzhou.
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#21 - Ultimate Structures: Super Sub
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired Unknown
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#22 - Sun Engine
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired Unknown
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#23 - Super Pipeline
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired Unknown
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#24 - Hawaii Superferry
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 8/26/2007
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#25 - Extreme Alaska
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired Unknown
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.
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The Best Episodes of MegaStructures Season 4
Every episode of MegaStructures Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of MegaStructures Season 4!
MegaStructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and the United Kingdom, Channel 5 in the United...
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Dubai's Dream Palace (Worlds Tallest Hotel)" is the best rated episode of "MegaStructures" season 4. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/25/2007. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Ultimate Structures: Super Copter".
