Building Sights

Jools Holland's love of panoramic views takes him to Britain's then tallest tower, Canary Wharf in London. From a vantage point atop the 50-floor structure Jools looks out over the capital city.

The artist Damien Hirst revisits the Worsley Medical Building in Leeds, where he used to do anatomical drawings as a student.

The poet Simon Armitage finds inspiration in the Humber Bridge, then the longest suspension bridge in the world.

Architect Will Alsop visits Hauer-King House in Islington, an unconventional private house built with glass walls.

Cartoonist Posy Simmonds discovers a remarkable police station in the City of London.

Architect Sir Richard Rogers praises the Alton Housing Estate, in Roehampton, south London. Built in the 1950s by London County Council as a modern utopia, Rogers describes it as one of the best estates of its kind in the world.

Architect Zaha Hadid looks at Sir Norman Foster's Willis Corroon building in the centre of Ipswich, Suffolk.

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.