Documentaries Tagged “architecture”
Life After People: Season 1
Life After People: Season 1
The very notion is deliciously ghoulish: What happens to earth if – or when – people suddenly vanished? The History Channel presents a dramatic, fascinating what-if scenario, part science fiction and part true natural science. Welcome to Earth, Population: 0 is the catchy tagline, Life After People’s 94 minutes are so gripping you near...
2057: The City of the Future
2057: The City of the Future
What would you see and experience if the clocks rolled forward 50 years? In a unique blend of drama and science, this three-part series shows you the world of tomorrow. Will we have flying cars? Will advances in medicine help us stay young forever? What about “printing” custom-made vital organs? What will our cities look like? What wil...
Future Life On Earth
Future Life On Earth
What will our future look like? Floating cities, flying to work and traveling in cars capable of operating underwater? And how will technology advance to make use of our natural resources to help feed our growing population in such areas as food, water and electricity?
The era of smog-filled skies will be over, because fewer of us w...
Modern Marvels: World Trade Center
Modern Marvels: World Trade Center
This is the last documentary about the WTC before 9/11. The World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, New York City that were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with six new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks.
The ori...
Super Stadium
Super Stadium
It’s not just the cool steel-ribbon gift wrapping that makes the new Arizona Cardinals stadium radically different; it’s everything, from the Starchitect design by Peter Eisenman, to North America’s first slide-out tray field, to the pie-slice construction method, engineered to keep costs to a trim $350 million.
The NFL is betting t...
Journeys from the Centre of the Earth
Journeys from the Centre of the Earth
Geologist Dr Iain Stewart shows how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped the history of the Mediterranean. In this series he takes us on a tour of the Med and shows us how geology is behind everything from the rise and fall of civilizations to religion, architecture and food.
Risky Rocks – Earthquakes created a huge network of cra...