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George Clarke's Amazing Spaces

Specials 2012 - 2022

  • 2012-12-20T20:00:00Z on Kabel 1 Doku
  • 47m
  • 1d 16m (32 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
For many the dream of having a bolt hole or a place to escape from their hectic lives can seem unobtainable. Architect George Clarke shows how such big dreams can be achieved in small and affordable places. George delves into the extraordinary world of small builds to meet the highly creative people who are taking tiny, unpromising spaces and creating the most incredible places to live and work and play. There are homes made out of shipping containers, horseboxes, and old buses. Others are building tiny huts or incredible treehouses in the middle of the woods.

32 episodes

George returns for a Christmas special, visiting Christmas-themed builds including a gingerbread house, an underground grotto decorated with shells, and a beach hut advent calendar

In this festive special, George visits a stalactite crystal grotto in Surrey and a small-spaces enthusiast who has rebuilt a Victorian flat-pack tin chapel in Shropshire

In this compilation series, George Clarke looks back over some of his favourite projects from across five series of Amazing Spaces, starting with George Clarke's Amazing Treehouses. There's the farmer building a caravan-inspired treehouse in the highlands of Scotland; a mirror-clad cube in Sweden; and a UFO construction nestled amongst the branches. There is also a trip to Tuscany and George's own star gazing treehouse in Kielder National Park, Northumberland.

George looks back over some favourite treehouses from Scotland to Sweden and Tuscany to Northumberland

George Clarke continues his look back at some of the best builds over five series of Amazing Spaces. This time he focuses on how nature and architecture can work harmoniously together in the glorious world of cabins in the wild. There's a mountain-top ski lodge in Italy only accessible by helicopter; a hobbit-inspired cob house in Oxfordshire built for only £150; and a concrete dome-home built under a man-made hill in a Texan hurricane valley. And George reflects on his own wilderness cabin that he built in the Sussex woodlands.

George looks back at some amazing back gardens, from a cliff-top stargazing retreat to the country's most multi-functional shed

George Clarke looks back across five series of Amazing Spaces and some of the amazing houseboats people have built for the Great British waterways. There's a seaplane from World War Two transformed into a bachelor pad; a 1960s pleasure cruiser refurbished as a marital home; and a hand built custom designed writers retreat created in the shape of an egg. George also looks further afield to an amazing holiday apartment on a lake in Germany and a Danish waterside home kept afloat by polystyrene and water bottles.

A second look at some incredible feats of engineering, from the scrap Learjet turned into a luxury garden studio to a mobile cinema and a Jeep made into a cocktail bar

George looks at some of his best builds by the sea, including a multifunctional beach hut in Bournemouth and a 21st-century update of a Victorian bathing machine in Margate

George Clarke looks back at some of the most ingenious Amazing Spaces builds where people have transformed the most unlikely of spaces into incredible places to live and work. From a toilet converted into a luxury home to a tube carriage transformed into a cutting edge office. George also reflects on an air ambulance remodelled into a campervan, an old army truck turned into a family getaway as well as a double decker bus transformed into a Japanese style pod hotel.

Special 11 World War II Special

  • 2016-12-13T20:00:00Z45m

George and Will Hardie help Jan Fursier bring to life her dad's dream for a caravan, taken from plans found in his secret wartime diaries during his time as a Japanese prisoner of war

This Amazing Spaces festive special takes a trip across the snow-capped mountains of western Canada, visiting remote herders' lodges, far-out snowboarder chalets and designer igloos

George and Will Hardie head for Norway, a country with some of the harshest weather
on Earth, visiting ingenious builds including a snow hotel, an epic mountain home and a
geodesic aluminium dome

Special 14 24 Hour Build Special

  • 2018-05-23T19:00:00Z45m

George Clarke, Will Hardie and a special Amazing Spaces team take on a 600-year-old
Welsh legend, attempting to build a house from scratch in less than a day. And it's
raining.

2018-06-08T19:00:00Z

Special 15 Off-Grid Special

Special 15 Off-Grid Special

  • 2018-06-08T19:00:00Z45m

George looks back over some of the best off-grid projects from Amazing Spaces: from a wooden yurt in a Devonshire quarry, to a medieval summerhouse in a suburban Kent garden made out of cob. George also sees the stunning results of a VW campervan restoration in Shropshire and visits a Victorian shepherds hut in Worcester.

Special 16 Great British Builds

  • 2018-06-15T19:00:00Z45m

George Clarke looks back over some of the best projects from Amazing Spaces. This time, he celebrates the Best of British and Britain's rich history and traditions, including a pair of bunkers from World War Two in a Surrey garden, and a Victorian railway carriage containing rare mahogany from the 1600s. There's a doghouse in Devon being converted into an extension. There's also the ex-cop launching a cream tea business in a camper van.

2018-06-22T19:00:00Z

Special 17 Shoestring Special

Special 17 Shoestring Special

  • 2018-06-22T19:00:00Z45m

This episode showcases the ingenious builds done on a shoestring; designs which demonstrate that big things can be achieved on small budgets – from a shed transformed into a Tardis to a home in Herefordshire built without any budget at all. In Texas, George visits a family home made out of ‘earth bags’ as well as one of the smallest homes ever seen on the show.

Special 18 Young Designers Special

  • 2018-06-29T19:00:00Z45m

This episode features some of the youngest small space designers around. In Somerset, 12-year-old Gwynnie wants her own luxury party shed. In south west London, Marcus attempts a boat restoration project with a young woman he's just met internet dating. In North Wales, George revisits a pair of newlyweds who converted an old army truck into a mobile campervan rather than go on honeymoon. And in New Zealand, George visits a sky sphere with a device that delivers chilled beer to your chair.

Special 19 European Design Special

  • 2018-07-06T19:00:00Z45m

In this special episode, George revisits some of the finest builds from across Europe. There’s an epic mountain-top retreat in the Italian Alps and a glass-walled lake house in Lugano. There is also an ingenious bed in Gelnhausen, Germany and a floating home in Denmark partly made out of recycled debris. And in Barcelona, George visits possibly the smallest city home he’s ever seen – a 24-square-metre roof top studio apartment where everything is hidden in the walls.

2018-07-15T19:00:00Z

Special 20 Tree House Special

Special 20 Tree House Special

  • 2018-07-15T19:00:00Z45m

In this tree house special, George rediscovers some of the best tiny builds to be found up in the treetops across the world. In Tuscany, George visits a romantic treehouse. There's a tree hotel in Sweden shaped like a UFO. The show also features a tree house designed like a mirrored cube. And there's a look back at the epic tree house George and master carpenter Will Hardie built together in Kielder Forest Park.

In this special episode of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, George and master-craftsman Will Hardie explore the ingenious small-space wonders hidden away among the snowy peaks of the Swiss, French and Italian Alps. Starting an epic road trip from an observation point 4000m above sea level, they set out on an adventure spanning mountain ranges, which takes in a secret ski lodge disguised as a boulder; a tree house resembling a giant acorn; a traditional Swiss cabin made almost entirely from concrete; and a tiny hamlet made up of eight 200-year-old chalets brought together from all over the Alps. And before heading home, George and Will visit a breathtaking mountaintop restaurant resembling a spaceship, before competing in a toboggan race.

In this snowy special, George Clarke and Will Hardie explore the many architectural gems of Finland, including a caravan on skis, and a city built underneath Helsinki.

2020-12-18T20:00:00Z

Special 23 Winter World Tour

Special 23 Winter World Tour

  • 2020-12-18T20:00:00Z45m

George Clarke and Will Hardie visit Norway, Finland, the Alps and Canada to check out some amazing winter designs, from ice hotels to stunning modern homes.

2021-12-21T20:00:00Z

Special 24 Icelandic Adventure

Special 24 Icelandic Adventure

  • 2021-12-21T20:00:00Z45m

George and his friend, master craftsman Will Hardie, explore the best of Iceland's architecture: from a cool, contemporary lake house and a traditional home made out of turf, to a treetop hotel room inspired by a Christmas bauble.

2019-08-11T19:00:00Z

Special 25 Small-space Builds

Special 25 Small-space Builds

  • 2019-08-11T19:00:00Z47m

George reviews his global search for the world's most ingenious small-space builds, from Canada to Japan, Norway to New Zealand, and from minimalist glass cabins to an epic beach house

George rediscovers some the most ingenious vehicle projects he's seen, including a helicopter, a camper van and the cockpit of a passenger jet

George looks back at his most ambitious big build - a 360-degree, gravity defying rotating house! In search of inspiration, George goes to Holland, Germany and the local fairground.

2014-11-20T20:00:00Z

Special 28 Christmas Spaces

Special 28 Christmas Spaces

  • 2014-11-20T20:00:00Z47m

George visits a flat-pack tin church. There's also a luxury converted chapel, ice carving in a Liverpool wonderland and a catch-up with some of George's best builds of the year.

2015-11-12T20:00:00Z

Special 29 Floating Homes

Special 29 Floating Homes

  • 2015-11-12T20:00:00Z47m

In a special edition of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, the architect follows his friend, eco-designer Max McMurdo, as he works on his own project. Having sold his house, he plans to use the £50,000 profit to build a custom-designed floating home in a 40ft shipping container, mooring it in a local marina and beginning a new life on the water. As well as following Max's progress, George gets a taste for the lifestyle, visiting a cutting-edge wraparound glass house near Canary Wharf in London's Docklands and travelling to Denmark, a nation responsible for some of the most ingenious floating homes in Europe.

George and Will Hardie aim to build a beach hut that can sleep four and float, but they only have six square metres. They seek inspiration from a high-end hut in Dorset, an ingenious space-saving houseboat in Germany and a 'half house' in London.

George and Will Hardie take inspiration from an 1830s camera obscura and a futuristic planetarium to create an observatory in honour of George's star-loving late father

George and Will discover some out-of-this-world hotel pods, an abandoned igloo hotel and a quirky family ski chalet, before trying their hands at ice fishing and building their very own dog sledge.

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