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How to Build a Better City

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There are things that all of us can do. Check them out.

Built For It Trials - Stack: Largest Board Game Played with Cat Excavators

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Watch Excavators Play The Largest Game Of Jenga You've Ever Seen

Concrete Tent

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Watch Richard Ambrose and Jonny Phillips quickly construct a building made of concrete canvas-a material that has all the elements of concrete, but is flexible enough to be turned into any shape. This technology allows people to erect permanent structures in a fraction of the time needed for traditional building techniques.

Hong Kong's bamboo scaffolding

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It takes strength, skill and, most importantly, intellect to erecting intricate webs of sky-high walls and platforms strong enough to hold a legion of construction workers.

Glass Making Demonstration

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Glass making demonstration at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY.

Mirrors - How its made

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The process of making mirrors from beginning to end.

30-Story Building Built In 15 Days (Time Lapse)

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What can you accomplish in 360 hours? The Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, has achieved another impossible feat - building a 30-story tall hotel in 360 hours.

Joe McNally Photography- Climbing the Burj Khalifa (The World's Tallest Building)

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What it looks like from the very top of the tallest man made structure in the world.

The Amazing Origami House: This Home Unfolds Eight Ways

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It all started with Lapland. When David ben Grunberg was an architecture student, he was given the assignment to design a pre-fab home that could work in wildly different temperature extremes.

Biggest Fountain in the world

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King Fahd's Fountain, also known as the Jeddah Fountain, is the tallest water fountain in the world. Located in the coast of Jeddah, west coast of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The fountain jets water 312 metres (1,024 ft) above the Red Sea. It was donated to the city of Jeddah by King Fahd, hence its name. The fountain is visible throughout the entire vicinity of Jeddah. The water it ejects can reach a speed of 375 kilometres (233 mi) per hour and its airborne mass can exceed 18 tons. It was constructed between 1980 and 1983 and began operating in 1985. The fountain uses saltwater taken from the Red Sea instead of freshwater. It uses over 500 spotlights to illuminate the fountain at night.