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The Best Episodes of Building Sights Season 1

Every episode of Building Sights Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Building Sights Season 1!

The Best Episodes of Building Sights Season 1

Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture.

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  1. Background image for 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 ...

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    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
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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.

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    Director:Paul Tickell
    Writer:Unknown
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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.

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    Director:Terry Flaxton
    Writer:Unknown
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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.

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    Director:Neil Cameron
    Writer:Unknown
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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.

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    Director:Paul Tickell
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for 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.

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    Director:Neil Cameron
    Writer:Unknown
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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.

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    Director:Andy Mayer
    Writer:Unknown

Season 1 Ratings Summary

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