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- Season 4 Dubai's Dream Palace (Worlds Tallest Hotel)
- Season 4 Ultimate Structures: Super Copter
- Season 4 Queen Mary 2
- Season 4 South Pole Station
- Season 4 Beijing Water Cube
- Season 4 Episode 6
- Season 4 Episode 7
- Season 4 Episode 8
- Season 4 Deep Ocean Port (China's Ultimate Port)
- Season 4 Episode 10
- Season 4 The World's Biggest Cruiseliner
- Season 4 Beijing Olympic Stadium
- Season 4 Episode 13
- Season 4 Episode 14
- Season 4 Future Trains
- Season 4 Building the World
- Season 4 Episode 17
- Season 4 Building Green Beijing
- Season 4 Atom Smasher
- Season 4 Megabridges: China
- Season 4 Ultimate Structures: Super Sub
- Season 4 Sun Engine
- Season 4 Super Pipeline
- Season 4 Hawaii Superferry
- Season 4 Extreme Alaska
- Season 4 World Trade Center Bahrain
- Season 4 The World's Biggest Shredder
- Season 4 Impossible Hotels: Dubai
- Season 4 Building Green Beijing
MegaStructures - Season 4 Episode 1 Dubai's Dream Palace (Worlds Tallest Hotel)
7.00 60 minutes 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.
