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The architect extraordinaire is back for another tour of offbeat small builds, from space-saving retreats to reconditioned vehicles, at home and abroad. He begins by meeting a father and son building an ambitious clifftop retreat and a young architect embarking on his first commission - a garden pavilion for his gran. Master craftsman Will Hardie sets out to transform the humble beach hut into the most unlikely of holiday getaways, and in Germany, George visits a modern house in a medieval town
George meets a father-of-three building a campervan for less than £700, made from old CDs and vinyl records, and a single dad who is renovating an oil-rig escape pod to make a home for himself and sons on the water. The presenter also continues his German road trip with a visit to the Tyrolean mountains, where he finds a house that looks like a cross between a large bird and a UFO, and he and Will Hardie save a decrepit old wartime lookout shed to use as the basis for their floating beach hut
George meets a young man looking on an internet dating site for a shipmate to help turn an old boat into a home. There's also a cricket-mad granddad building a mini pavilion in his garden.
George finds a hearse that's been made into a family camper van, with a pop-out kitchen in a coffin. There's also a floating book shop, and a Victorian bathing machine in Margate.
George visits a river barge conversion, an ingenious swimming pool restoration and a futuristic lakeside house in Germany
George meets a couple transforming their garden air-raid shelters. There's also 12-year-old Guinnie, who hopes to create the ultimate party shed, and some luxury beach houses.
George meets a couple so desperate to get onto the housing ladder that they're making their own home out of scrap. And there's drama in the workshop with the beach hut project.
George and Will's floating beach hut goes to sea. There's also a festival campervan made from an American school bus and a family home in Germany built in an old grain silo.
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.
