Architectures

  • Premiered: Sep 1996
  • Episodes: 71
  • Followers: 4
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Season 2
2x3
Satolas TGV
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 10, 2001
An astonishing concrete and steel structure designed for an open field in the Lyon countryside. An astonishing feat undertaken by Calatrava, which sees trains race through at speeds of 190mph.
2x1
The Johnson Wax Building
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 17, 2001
These famous office buildings were designed and built between 1936 and 1939 for the wax manufacturer Johnson by one one of the 20th century's greatest architects Frank Lloyd Wright.
2x5
The Paris Fine Art School
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 24, 2001
In the heart of Paris, architect Duban's École des Beaux-Arts provides its students with an architectural "temple" representing a 19th century style widely copied throughout the world.
2x12
The Faculty of Architecture in Porto
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 14, 2001
The Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza built Porto's Faculty of Architecture, a mediation on space and light in a futuristic "agora". Alvaro was once a student and still teaches there today.
2x4
The Stone Thermal Baths
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 21, 2001
The Spa of Vals-les-Bains, designed by Peter Zumthor, redefines the very concept of public bathing, a mise en scène of water in all its aspects.
2x7
The Galleria Umberto I
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Air date
May 19, 2001
Built in Naples, this is one of the last and largest covered passageways to be constructed in Europe, providing the swan song for a grand invention of 19th century architecture.
2x8
Saint Pancras Station
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 02, 2001
In the 19th century in London, the Midland Company had Saint Pancras and a luxury hotel built. Engineer W.H. Barlow carried out a major feat, creating a 73 metre single-span hall, with .. show full overview
2x13 Season finale
The Wind Box
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 09, 2001
The Fort de France Education Authority is the only example of a contemporary architectural building in Martinique. It is also the only official building to be naturally ventilated by .. show full overview
2x10
The Garnier Opera
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Air date
Jun 16, 2001
The Garnier Opera by Charles Garnier This is Paris's most prestigious 19th century building, the pinnacle of the "Beaux Arts" style with its ornamented facade, transfigured by the excesses of a theatre-mad architect in the mid-1800s.

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