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The Best Episodes of Building Sights

Every episode of Building Sights ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Building Sights!

Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture.

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    Building Sights Season 1 Episode 1 - Water Authority Pumping Station
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    #1 - Water Authority Pumping Station

    S1:E1

    Architect Piers Gough looks at the brand new Water Authority Pumping Station on London's Isle of Dogs, designed by John Outram , that's good enough to eat in ...

    Director:Russell England
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Building Sights Season 1 Episode 2 - Marsh Court
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    #2 - Marsh Court

    S1:E2

    Writer Jonathan Meades revisits Marsh Court, a private house-turned-prep-school designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1904 and with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll. Meades finds the place an ever-changing maze.

    Director:Russell England
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Building Sights Season 1 Episode 3 - Schlumberger Building
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    #3 - Schlumberger Building

    S1:E3

    Eva Jiricna -- the architect responsible for designing interiors for Harrods, Joseph and parts of the Lloyds building -- visits Schlumberger Cambridge Research (architect, Michael Hopkins 1984) and is enchanted by its modernity.

    Director:Paul Tickell
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Building Sights Season 1 Episode 4 - Byker Wall
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    #4 - Byker Wall

    S1:E4

    Writer Beatrix Campbell visits the successful Byker housing estate in Newcastle, designed by Ralph Erskine in the early 1970s. It's an epic development - both monumental and modest, and Beatrix Campbell describes why it is such an ingenious design solution.

    Director:Terry Flaxton
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Building Sights Season 1 Episode 5 - Alexander Fleming House
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    #5 - Alexander Fleming House

    S1:E5

    Stephen Bayley, curator of the Conran Design Museum opening in 1989 argues, in the face of popular opinion, that Alexander Fleming House (Erno Goldfinger, 1962) in London's Elephant and Castle is a building worth preserving in its original design.

    Director:Neil Cameron
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Building Sights Season 1 Episode 6 - Glasgow School of Art
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    #6 - Glasgow School of Art

    S1:E6

    Artist Bruce McLean attended Saturday morning classes at the Glasgow School of Art from the age of 6, and went on to study there in the 1960s. But it is only recently says McLean, that he has realised the influence Charles Rennie Mackintosh's building (1897-1909) had on him.

    Director:Paul Tickell
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Building Sights Season 1 Episode 7 - De La Warr Pavilion
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    #7 - De La Warr Pavilion

    S1:E7

    First-year architecture student Sophie Hicks delights in the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, Sussex. Designed in 1933 by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, the building is one of the finest examples of modern seaside architecture in Britain.

    Director:Neil Cameron
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Building Sights Season 1 Episode 8 - Creek Vean
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    #8 - Creek Vean

    S1:E8

    Editor of Blueprint magazine Deyan Sudjic examines Creek Vean in Cornwall. It is a house built in 1966 by Team 4, a group of young unknowns. Two of them are now Britain's best known architects, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.

    Director:Andy Mayer
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Building Sights Season 2 Episode 1 - Arab Institute
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    #9 - Arab Institute

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Paul Tickell
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Building Sights Season 2 Episode 2 - Stamford Bridge
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    #10 - Stamford Bridge

    S2:E2

    Architect Nigel Coates delights in Chelsea Football Stadium's East Stand (Darbourne and Darke, 1972).

    Director:Lesley Manning
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Building Sights Season 2 Episode 3 - Janet Street-Porter's House
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    #11 - Janet Street-Porter's House

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:David F. Turnbull
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Building Sights Season 2 Episode 4 - Holland House
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    #12 - Holland House

    S2:E4

    Peter Palumbo, chairman of the Arts Council, praises Holland House, an office block built in the City of London by the Dutch architect Berlage.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Building Sights Season 2 Episode 5 - David Mellor Cutlery Factory
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    #13 - David Mellor Cutlery Factory

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Terry Braun
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Building Sights Season 2 Episode 6 - The Blackburn House
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    #14 - The Blackburn House

    S2:E6

    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.

    Director:Ruth Rosenthal
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Building Sights Season 2 Episode 7 - D10 Boots Building, Nottingham
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    #15 - D10 Boots Building, Nottingham

    S2:E7

    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.

    Director:Terry Flaxton
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Building Sights Season 2 Episode 8 - Royal College of Physicians
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    #16 - Royal College of Physicians

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Russell England
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Building Sights Season 2 Episode 9 - The Katharine Stephen Room
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    #17 - The Katharine Stephen Room

    S2:E9

    Internationally renowned architect James Stirling examines the Katharine Stephen Room - rare books library of Newnham College, Cambridge (1988 Birkin Haward/Joanna Van Heyningen).

    Director:Geoff Dunlop
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Building Sights Season 3 Episode 1 - Boeing 747
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    #18 - Boeing 747

    S3:E1

    Architect, Sir Norman Foster, looks at the jumbo jet.

    Director:Patrick Uden
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Building Sights Season 3 Episode 2 - Didcot Power Station
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    #19 - Didcot Power Station

    S3:E2

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

    Director:Paul Bryers
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Building Sights Season 3 Episode 3 - Lloyds of London
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    #20 - Lloyds of London

    S3:E3

    Artist Michael Craig-Martin marvels at Lloyds of London.

    Director:Ruth Rosenthal
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Building Sights Season 3 Episode 4 - Trellick Tower
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    #21 - Trellick Tower

    S3:E4

    Architect Sand Helsel applauds Trellick Tower, a 1967 tower block in north London by Erno Goldfinger.

    Director:Paul Bryers
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Building Sights Season 3 Episode 5 - St Mary's Hospital
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    #22 - St Mary's Hospital

    S3:E5

    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.

    Director:Terry Braun
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Building Sights Season 3 Episode 6 - Michelin Building
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    #23 - Michelin Building

    S3:E6

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

    Director:Terry Braun
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Building Sights Season 3 Episode 7 - Court House
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    #24 - Court House

    S3:E7

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

    Director:Christopher Hale
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Building Sights Season 3 Episode 8 - Leicester University Engineering Building
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    #25 - Leicester University Engineering Building

    S3:E8

    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.'

    Director:Sue Sudbury
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Water Authority Pumping Station" is the best rated episode of "Building Sights". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Russell England and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/1/1988. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Marsh Court".