Building Sights

Glyndebourne Opera House (4x8)

Air date: Jul 10, 1996

Last in a series of eight personal reflections on the best of modern 20th-century British architecture. 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.