Building Sights

D10 Boots Building, Nottingham (2x7)

Air date: Nov 08, 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. It is, she says, 'a sort of chemical cathedral for cold creams and toothpastes'.