The Best Episodes of Building Sights Season 2

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   #1 - Arab Institute

   S2:E17/11/1989

   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

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   #2 - Stamford Bridge

   S2:E210/4/1989

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

   Director:Lesley Manning

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   #3 - Janet Street-Porter's House

   S2:E310/11/1989

   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

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   #4 - Holland House

   S2:E410/18/1989

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

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   #5 - David Mellor Cutlery Factory

   S2:E510/25/1989

   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

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   #6 - The Blackburn House

   S2:E611/1/1989

   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

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   #7 - D10 Boots Building, Nottingham

   S2:E711/8/1989

   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

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   #8 - Royal College of Physicians

   S2:E811/15/1989

   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

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   #9 - The Katharine Stephen Room

   S2:E911/22/1989

   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

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