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

Building Sights (1988)

Series 4 (May 13, 1996, midnight)

Eight personal reflections on the best modern British architecture.


Genres: Documentary
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Building Sights (1988)

Series 4 (May 13, 1996, midnight)

Eight personal reflections on the best modern British 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

May 13, 1996, midnight 0.0

S4E1 - Canary Wharf

Jools Holland's love of panoramic views takes him to Britain's tallest tower, Canary Wharf in London. From a vantage point atop the 50-floor structure the musician and presenter looks out over the capital city.
May 20, 1996, midnight 0.0

S4E2 - The Worsley Medical Building

Damien Hirst, controversial winner of last year's Turner Prize, enjoys the juxtaposition of life and death at the Worsley Medical Building in Leeds where, as a student, he used to do anatomical drawings.
June 3, 1996, midnight 0.0

S4E3 - Hauer-King House

Architect Will Alsop visits an unconventional private house built with glass walls.
June 10, 1996, midnight 0.0

S4E4 - Humber Bridge

Poet Simon Armitage finds inspiration in the longest suspension bridge in the world. Opened in 1981, the Humber Bridge is 1.3 miles long and, he feels, is "one of the modern wonders of the world".
June 17, 1996, midnight 0.0

S4E5 - Wood Street Police Station

Cartoonist Posy Simmonds discovers a remarkable police station in Wood Street in the City of London.
June 24, 1996, midnight 0.0

S4E6 - Alton Estate

Architect Sir Richard Rogers praises Alton housing estate in Roehampton. Built in the 1950s by the London County Council, Alton was planned to be a modern Utopia.
July 3, 1996, midnight 0.0

S4E7 - Willis Corroon

Architect Zaha Hadid chooses the Willis Corroon building in the centre of Ipswich, Suffolk, a high-tech seventies work by Sir Norman Foster.
July 10, 1996, midnight 0.0

S4E8 - Glyndebourne Opera House

Writer Germaine Greer chooses the Glyndebourne Opera House on the Sussex Downs. The building, which opened in 1994, was constructed in just 18 months and was designed by Michael Hopkins and Patty Hopkins.
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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