Building Sights
Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture.
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Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture in Britain.
- Ep 1
1.Water Authority Pumping Station
01-11-1988Architect Piers Gough looks at the brand new Water Authority Pumping Station on London's Isle of Dogs, designed by John Outram , that's good enough to eat in ...
- Ep 2
2.Marsh Court
07-11-1988Writer Jonathan Meades revisits Marsh Court, a private house-turned-prep-school designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1904 and with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll. Meades finds the place an...
3.Schlumberger Building
08-11-1988Eva Jiricna -- the architect responsible for designing interiors for Harrods, Joseph and parts of the Lloyds building -- visits Schlumberger Cambridge Research (architect, Michael...
4.Byker Wall
15-11-1988Writer Beatrix Campbell visits the successful Byker housing estate in Newcastle, designed by Ralph Erskine in the early 1970s. It's an epic development - both monumental and modest...
5.Alexander Fleming House
23-11-1988Stephen Bayley, curator of the Conran Design Museum opening in 1989 argues, in the face of popular opinion, that Alexander Fleming House (Erno Goldfinger, 1962) in London's Elephan...
- Ep 6
6.Glasgow School of Art
29-11-1988Artist Bruce McLean attended Saturday morning classes at the Glasgow School of Art from the age of 6, and went on to study there in the 1960s. But it is only recently says McLean,...
- Ep 7
7.De La Warr Pavilion
06-12-1988First-year architecture student Sophie Hicks delights in the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, Sussex. Designed in 1933 by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, the building is one...
- Ep 8
8.Creek Vean
13-12-1988Editor of Blueprint magazine Deyan Sudjic examines Creek Vean in Cornwall. It is a house built in 1966 by Team 4, a group of young unknowns. Two of them are now Britain's best know...
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