Building Sights

  • Premiered: Nov 1988
  • Episodes: 37
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
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  • Documentary

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Season 3
3x1
Boeing 747
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 15, 1991
Architect Sir Norman Foster looks at the jumbo jet, a unique 'building' that flies.
3x2
Didcot Power Station
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Air date
Jan 22, 1991
Writer Marina Warner is inspired by Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire.
3x3
Lloyd's Building
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Air date
Jan 29, 1991
Artist Michael Craig-Martin marvels at the Lloyd's of London building by Richard Rogers.
3x4
Trellick Tower
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Air date
Feb 05, 1991
Architect Sand Helsel applauds Trellick Tower, a Brutalist tower block in west London, designed by Erno Goldfinger, and completed in 1972.
3x5
St. Mary's
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Air date
Feb 12, 1991
Sandy Naime , director of visual arts at the Arts Council, looks at St Mary's, a new NHS hospital on the Isle of Wight by Ahrends, Burton and Koralek.
3x6
Michelin Building in London
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Air date
Mar 05, 1991
Tessa Blackstone, Master of Birkbeck College, University of London, praises the Michelin building in London.
3x7
Court House in Truro
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Air date
Mar 12, 1991
Court House in Truro, Cornwall is admired by the artist Deanna Petherbridge.
3x8
Leicester University Engineering Building
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Air date
Mar 19, 1991
Leicester University Engineering Building is one of only a few buildings that have had a powerful effect on structural engineer Tim MacFarlane : 'For me, this building is a work of art.'
3x9
St. Olaf House
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 26, 1991
To Alice Rawsthorn, design correspondent of The Financial Times, St Olaf House (1931) is 'a little island of art deco splendour tucked away between the south bank of the River Thames and .. show full overview
3x10
Garden House
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Air date
Apr 02, 1991
Artist Derek Jarman returns to his former art master's house in Wimborne, Dorset which he helped to build.
3x11
County Arcade, Leeds
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Air date
Apr 09, 1991
Alan Bennett wanders through the County Arcade, Leeds (Frank Matcham 1900). 'As a child I would come down here with my dad and two-dozen or so penguins.'
3x12 Season finale
Boarbank Hall Oratory
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 16, 1991
Architect Richard MacCormac considers the Boarbank Hall Oratory near Grange-over-Sands, in Cumbria. Boarbank Hall has been the home of the Canonesses of St Augustine since 1921, and the Oratory was added in 1986.

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