Building the Ultimate

Technicians scale skyscrapers.

Engineers seek answers from virtual reality simulations

High-pressure arched air beams.

The destruction of buildings, bridges and towers.

Conservationists use extreme measures to save a lighthouse threatened by erosion.

Engineering and other technological advances at the World's Fair.

A 20-year tunnel project in Boston.

A natural gas drilling platform and an under-sea pipeline.

Rebuilding Hong Kong's international airport.

Urban planning and restructuring, including the new Reichstag.

Sixteen million people live, work, and play on reclaimed land.

A vacation destination for businessmen and European tourists.

Domed structures include the Toronto Skydome, the Millennium Dome in London and the geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller.

Discreet, yet as safe as a tank. The bullet proof car is constantly changing. While Hitler and Al Capone drove in heavy armoured cars, today they are light, fast and almost impenetrable. But how are new threats changing the bullet proof car today? Filmed on location in the United Kingdom, the United States and Mexico, this program gives an insight into this hidden world and features interviews with the designers and with survivors of bullet proof car attacks.