Building Sights

Series 2

9 episodes · Jul 11, 1989

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  • S2E1

    Arab Institute

    Jul 11, 1989

    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.

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  • S2E2

    Stamford Bridge

    Oct 4, 1989

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

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  • Janet Street-Porter's House
    S2E3

    Janet Street-Porter's House

    Oct 11, 1989

    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.

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  • S2E4

    Holland House

    Oct 18, 1989

    Peter Palumbo, chairman of the Arts Council, praises Holland House, an office block built in the City of London by the Dutch architect Berlage.

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  • S2E5

    David Mellor Cutlery Factory

    Oct 25, 1989

    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.

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  • S2E6

    The Blackburn House

    Nov 1, 1989

    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.

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  • S2E7

    D10 Boots Building, Nottingham

    Nov 8, 1989

    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.

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  • S2E8

    Royal College of Physicians

    Nov 15, 1989

    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.

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  • S2E9

    The Katharine Stephen Room

    Nov 22, 1989

    Internationally renowned architect James Stirling examines the Katharine Stephen Room - rare books library of Newnham College, Cambridge (1988 Birkin Haward/Joanna Van Heyningen).

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