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Building Sights: Series 2
July 11, 1989
9 Episodes
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Episodes
9
1
Arab Institute
Jul 11, 1989
Janet Abrams reflects on the Arab Institute on Paris's Left Bank (architect Jean Nouvel, 1988), one of President Mitterand's portfolio of buildings designed to change the profile of Paris.
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2
Stamford Bridge
Oct 4, 1989
Architect Nigel Coates delights in Chelsea Football Stadium's East Stand (Darbourne and Darke, 1972).
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3
Janet Street-Porter's House
Oct 11, 1989
Television executive and ex-architecture student Janet Street-Porter asked Piers Gough to design a house for her in London's Smithfield. For the first time on television, she shows the result.
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4
Holland House
Oct 18, 1989
Peter Palumbo, chairman of the Arts Council, praises Holland House, an office block built in the City of London by the Dutch architect Berlage.
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5
David Mellor Cutlery Factory
Oct 25, 1989
Writer Gillian Darley examines the new award-winning David Mellor Cutlery Factory in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Designed by architect Michael Hopkins and opened this year, it is extraordinary because it is round.
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6
The Blackburn House
Nov 1, 1989
Artist and photographer Jenny Okun visits the Blackburn House in London's Hampstead, by architects Peter Wilson and Chassay Wright (1989). She argues that the Blackburn House - part office, part gallery, part flat - is important because really adventurous domestic architecture is such a rarity.
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7
D10 Boots Building, Nottingham
Nov 8, 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.
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8
Royal College of Physicians
Nov 15, 1989
Architect Edward Cullinan thinks the best post-war building in London is the Royal College of Physicians in Regent's Park, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun in 1960.
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9
The Katharine Stephen Room
Nov 22, 1989
Internationally renowned architect James Stirling examines the Katharine Stephen Room - rare books library of Newnham College, Cambridge (1988 Birkin Haward/Joanna Van Heyningen).
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