Building Sights (1988)

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Network: BBC Two

Episode Runtime: 10 min.

Season Runtime: 370 min.

Status: Ended

Certification: NR

Building Sights (1988)

Series 3 (Jan. 15, 1991, midnight)

A 12-part series of personal reflections on 20th-century architecture

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.architecture

Building Sights (1988)

Series 3 (Jan. 15, 1991, midnight)

A 12-part series of personal reflections on 20th-century architecture

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.architecture

Network: BBC Two

Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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Deyan Sudjic

Jonathan Meades

Beatrix Campbell

Stephen Bayley

Janet Street-Porter

Jenny Okun

James Stirling

Norman Foster

Jan. 15, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E1 - Boeing 747

Architect, Sir Norman Foster, looks at the jumbo jet.

Jan. 22, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E2 - Didcot Power Station

Writer Marina Warner is inspired by Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire.

Jan. 29, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E3 - Lloyds of London

Artist Michael Craig-Martin marvels at Lloyds of London.

Feb. 5, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E4 - Trellick Tower

Architect Sand Helsel applauds Trellick Tower, a 1967 tower block in north London by Erno Goldfinger.

Feb. 12, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E5 - St Mary's Hospital

Sandy Naime, director of visual arts at the Arts Council, looks at St Mary's, a new NHS hospital on the Isle of Wight by Ahrends, Burton and Koralek.

March 5, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E6 - Michelin Building

Tessa Blackstone, Master of Birkbeck College, University of London, praises the Michelin building in London.

March 12, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E7 - Court House

Court House in Truro, Cornwall is admired by the artist Deanna Petherbridge.

March 19, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E8 - Leicester University Engineering Building

Leicester University Engineering Building is one of only a few buildings that have had a powerful effect on structural engineer Tim MacFarlane: 'For me, this building is a work of art.'

March 26, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E9 - St Olaf House

To Alice Rawsthorn, design correspondent of The Financial Times, St Olaf House (1931) is 'a little island of art deco splendour tucked away between the south bank of the River Thames and the railway arches of London Bridge. It's one of those quirky places, where everything down to the tiniest detail was designed in a very particular way.'

April 2, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E10 - Garden House

Film director and artist Derek Jarman visits Garden House in Wimborne, Dorset, built by his art master Robin Noscoe.

April 9, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E11 - County Arcade

Alan Bennett wanders through the County Arcade, Leeds (Frank Matcham 1900).

April 16, 1991, midnight 0.0

S3E12 - Boarbank Hall Oratory

Architect Richard MacCormac marvels at the Boarbank Hall Oratory near Grange over Sands, Cumbria.

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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