Megastructures

China has erected some of the greatest monuments on Earth When they held the Olympic games in Beijing the main stadium was a feat of architectural beauty It was up to engineers to design the Beijing Water Cube to match it

Take 60000 tons of steel 260000 cubic meters of concrete 2000 dedicated Chinese workers and some of the best design brains in the business and the Shanghai World Financial Center is what you get

Typhoon winds to withstand a rigid deadline to meet and a towering goal no skyscraper had ever reached The Pearl River Tower even generates its own power it is the holy grail for mechanical engineers

Singapores Marina Bay Sands is one of the worlds most complicated construction projects Engineers must build 3 skyscrapers which will then hold a sky park as big as an aircraft carrier If they succeed they will have created a city unto itself