One person, one structure
Each film follows a single idea from sketch to skyline.
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Season 1 · Architecture and engineering stories
They said it
could not be built.
They built it anyway.
Short films about the minds behind the world's most famous structures, and the arguments, accidents and ideas that made them.
The idea
Every landmark started as a drawing someone believed in.
Each film follows one designer or builder from the first sketch to the moment the structure stood. We stay with the doubt, the rivals and the maths, because that is where the story is.
Season 1 visits Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Florence, New York and more. Watch a full film, or start with a Short.
Watch the story
Watch the full film
The whole story of the dome he never wanted to build.
Michelangelo: He Never Wanted to Build St Peter's Dome · 13:30
Real history, told simply
Dramatised and shortened, always with the central fact intact.
Built for curious minds
No jargon needed. Ideal for anyone who has ever looked up at a building.
Shorts as chapters
Every Short links to a full film.
En son
Tüm bölümler →
Mevsim 1 - 1
Glass pyramid in a courtyard A spiral museum seen from outside 
A glass pyramid seen from another side 
Shell-shaped roofs in a harbour 
Cranes against a skyline at dusk
Hundertwasser: the wild manifesto
An artist attacks modern architecture from an old abbey.
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Film
How Emily Roebling saved the Brooklyn Bridge
The bridge that took a generation to build.
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Fact of the day
- Gaudi hung strings with little bags of lead shot, then turned the photo upside down: what hangs perfectly, stands perfectly.
- In 1887 famous artists signed a letter against the Eiffel Tower and called it useless and monstrous.
- Brunelleschi's dome in Florence was larger than anything built since antiquity.
- Emily Roebling saw the Brooklyn Bridge through to the end.
- Hundertwasser once said buildings were so dead that it would be better if mould grew on them.
From sketch to skyline
Five stories, five centuries
Every building started as an argument. Follow the line from 1420 to 1958.
- 1420
A dome bigger than anything in centuries
Brunelleschi starts on the dome of Florence's cathedral, larger than anything built since antiquity. It is finished in 1436.
YouTube'da izleyin → - 1869
The bridge that took fourteen years
Work starts on the Brooklyn Bridge. Emily Roebling sees it through to the end, and it opens in 1883.
YouTube'da izleyin → - 1883
Strings, lead shot and an upside-down photo
Gaudi takes charge of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and designs with hanging strings: what hangs perfectly, stands perfectly.
YouTube'da izleyin → - 1887
Useless and monstrous
Artists and writers sign a letter against a new iron tower in Paris. Two years later it opens for the 1889 World's Fair.
YouTube'da izleyin → - 1958
At least mould is alive
In an old abbey, Hundertwasser attacks modern architecture and says dead buildings would be better off with mould.
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Oyuncu kadrosu
Tüm oyuncu kadrosuyla tanışın →Master builder · your guide
Thomas Hale
Sees the big idea first. Always has a pencil behind his ear.
Master builder · your guide
Valeria Ríos
Asks who will actually walk through that door.
Engineer · Paris
Gustave Eiffel
Paris called his tower useless and monstrous.
Architect · Barcelona
Antoni Gaudi
He hung strings, then turned the picture upside down.
Artist · Vienna
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
"At least mould is alive!"
Master builder · Florence
Filippo Brunelleschi
A dome bigger than anything built in centuries.
Which building would you rebuild first, and why? Watch the stories on YouTube and decide which legend built the boldest idea.
Perde arkası
Games / App
Build it yourself.
A game or an app about famous buildings is in the plans: design, test, and see why things stand. It comes later, once the website is finished and the app is made.
YouTube
Hikayenin devamını takip edin
YouTube kanalımıza abone olun, böylece yeni bir bölüm yayınlandığında hiçbir zaman habersiz kalmayın.
- 1. SubscribeOpen the channel and press Subscribe.
- 2. Choose the bellGet a message when a new film is out.
- 3. Suggest nothing, just watchStart with the Eiffel Tower film.
Free to print
Free to print: the Villa Aurora drawing set (A3), drawings of famous landmarks, memory cards, a Master Builder certificate and coloring pages for kids. Click a picture to enlarge it.
Get the blueprintsChallenge yourself
Match the master builders with their cities and rebuild a legend in the right order. How good is your eye for building?
Take the challengeBlueprint LegendsHikayenin devamını takip edin