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Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 10 min.
Season Runtime: 370 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

Building Sights (1988)

Series 2 (July 11, 1989, midnight)

Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture.


Genres: Documentary
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Building Sights (1988)

Series 2 (July 11, 1989, midnight)

Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture.

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.architecture

Network: BBC Two

Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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Deyan Sudjic
Deyan Sudjic
Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Meades
Beatrix Campbell
Beatrix Campbell
Stephen Bayley
Stephen Bayley
Janet Street-Porter
Janet Street-Porter
Jenny Okun
Jenny Okun
James Stirling
James Stirling
Norman Foster
Norman Foster

July 11, 1989, midnight 0.0

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.
Oct. 4, 1989, midnight 0.0

S2E2 - Stamford Bridge

Architect Nigel Coates delights in Chelsea Football Stadium's East Stand (Darbourne and Darke, 1972).
Oct. 11, 1989, midnight 0.0

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. 18, 1989, midnight 0.0

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. 25, 1989, midnight 0.0

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.
Nov. 1, 1989, midnight 0.0

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. 8, 1989, midnight 0.0

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. 15, 1989, midnight 0.0

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. 22, 1989, midnight 0.0

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).
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 10 min.
Season Runtime: 370 min.
Released: Nov. 1, 1988
Last Air Date: July 10, 1996, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

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