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Building Sights

Season 3 1991

  • 1991-01-15T00:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 10m
  • 2h (12 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture in Britain

12 episodes

Season Premiere

1991-01-15T00:00:00Z

3x01 Boeing 747

Season Premiere

3x01 Boeing 747

  • 1991-01-15T00:00:00Z10m

Architect Sir Norman Foster looks at the jumbo jet, a unique 'building' that flies.

1991-01-22T00:00:00Z

3x02 Didcot Power Station

3x02 Didcot Power Station

  • 1991-01-22T00:00:00Z10m

Writer Marina Warner is inspired by Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire.

1991-01-29T00:00:00Z

3x03 Lloyd's Building

3x03 Lloyd's Building

  • 1991-01-29T00:00:00Z10m

Artist Michael Craig-Martin marvels at the Lloyd's of London building by Richard Rogers.

1991-02-05T00:00:00Z

3x04 Trellick Tower

3x04 Trellick Tower

  • 1991-02-05T00:00:00Z10m

Architect Sand Helsel applauds Trellick Tower, a Brutalist tower block in west London, designed by Erno Goldfinger, and completed in 1972.

1991-02-12T00:00:00Z

3x05 St Mary's

3x05 St Mary's

  • 1991-02-12T00:00:00Z10m

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.

3x06 Michelin building in London

  • 1991-03-05T00:00:00Z10m

Tessa Blackstone, Master of Birkbeck College, University of London, praises the Michelin building in London.

1991-03-12T00:00:00Z

3x07 Court House in Truro

3x07 Court House in Truro

  • 1991-03-12T00:00:00Z10m

Court House in Truro, Cornwall is admired by the artist Deanna Petherbridge.

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.'

1991-03-26T00:00:00Z

3x09 St Olaf House

3x09 St Olaf House

  • 1991-03-26T00:00:00Z10m

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 the railway arches of London Bridge. It's one of those quirky places, where everything down to the tiniest detail was designed in a very particular way.'

3x10 Former art master's house in Wimborne

  • 1991-04-01T23:00:00Z10m

Artist Derek Jarman returns to his former art master's house in Wimborne, Dorset which he helped to build.

1991-04-08T23:00:00Z

3x11 County Arcade, Leeds

3x11 County Arcade, Leeds

  • 1991-04-08T23:00:00Z10m

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.'

1991-04-15T23:00:00Z

3x12 Boarbank Hall Oratory

3x12 Boarbank Hall Oratory

  • 1991-04-15T23:00:00Z10m

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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