Deyan Sudjic
Building Sights (1988)
Series 2
Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture.
Released Nov. 1, 1988
Episode 10 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.architecture
Production Companies: BBC Elstree
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Arab Institute
Janet Abrams reflects on the Arab Institute on Paris's Left Bank (architect Jean Nouvel, 1988), one of President Mitterand's portfolio of buildings designed to change the profile of Paris.
July 11, 1989, midnight
S2E2 - Stamford Bridge
Architect Nigel Coates delights in Chelsea Football Stadium's East Stand (Darbourne and Darke, 1972).
Oct. 4, 1989, midnight
S2E3 - Janet Street-Porter's House
Television executive and ex-architecture student Janet Street-Porter asked Piers Gough to design a house for her in London's Smithfield. For the first time on television, she shows the result.
Oct. 11, 1989, midnight
S2E4 - Holland House
Peter Palumbo, chairman of the Arts Council, praises Holland House, an office block built in the City of London by the Dutch architect Berlage.
Oct. 18, 1989, midnight
S2E5 - David Mellor Cutlery Factory
Writer Gillian Darley examines the new award-winning David Mellor Cutlery Factory in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Designed by architect Michael Hopkins and opened this year, it is extraordinary because it is round.
Oct. 25, 1989, midnight
S2E6 - The Blackburn House
Artist and photographer Jenny Okun visits the Blackburn House in London's Hampstead, by architects Peter Wilson and Chassay Wright (1989). She argues that the Blackburn House - part office, part gallery, part flat - is important because really adventurous domestic architecture is such a rarity.
Nov. 1, 1989, midnight
S2E7 - D10 Boots Building, Nottingham
The Boots factory is a vast glass palace built by Owen Williams in 1932. Iwona Blazwick from London's ICA tours the factory which is acknowledged as a masterpiece of early British modernism.
Nov. 8, 1989, midnight
S2E8 - Royal College of Physicians
Architect Edward Cullinan thinks the best post-war building in London is the Royal College of Physicians in Regent's Park, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun in 1960.
Nov. 15, 1989, midnight
S2E9 - The Katharine Stephen Room
Internationally renowned architect James Stirling examines the Katharine Stephen Room - rare books library of Newnham College, Cambridge (1988 Birkin Haward/Joanna Van Heyningen).
Nov. 22, 1989, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 10 min.
Season Runtime: 10 min.
Released: Nov. 1, 1988
Last Air Date: July 10, 1996, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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