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Building Sights

Season 4 1996

  • 1996-05-12T23:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 10m
  • 1h 20m (8 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture in Britain

8 episodes

Season Premiere

1996-05-12T23:00:00Z

4x01 Canary Wharf

Season Premiere

4x01 Canary Wharf

  • 1996-05-12T23:00:00Z10m

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.

4x02 The Worsley Medical Building

  • 1996-05-19T23:00:00Z10m

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

1996-06-12T23:00:00Z

4x03 Hauer-King House

4x03 Hauer-King House

  • 1996-06-12T23:00:00Z10m

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

1996-06-09T23:00:00Z

4x04 Humber Bridge

4x04 Humber Bridge

  • 1996-06-09T23:00:00Z10m

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

4x05 Wood Street Police Station

  • 1996-06-16T23:00:00Z10m

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

1996-06-23T23:00:00Z

4x06 Alton Estate

4x06 Alton Estate

  • 1996-06-23T23:00:00Z10m

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.

1996-07-02T23:00:00Z

4x07 Willis Corroon

4x07 Willis Corroon

  • 1996-07-02T23:00:00Z10m

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

1996-07-09T23:00:00Z

4x08 Glyndebourne Opera House

4x08 Glyndebourne Opera House

  • 1996-07-09T23:00:00Z10m

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.

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