The Best Episodes of Building Sights Season 1

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   #1 - Water Authority Pumping Station

   S1:E111/1/1988

   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

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   #2 - Marsh Court

   S1:E211/7/1988

   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

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   #3 - Schlumberger Building

   S1:E311/8/1988

   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

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   Director:Paul Tickell

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   #4 - Byker Wall

   S1:E411/15/1988

   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

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   Director:Terry Flaxton

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   #5 - Alexander Fleming House

   S1:E511/23/1988

   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

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   Director:Neil Cameron

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   #6 - Glasgow School of Art

   S1:E611/29/1988

   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

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   #7 - De La Warr Pavilion

   S1:E712/6/1988

   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

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   Director:Neil Cameron

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   #8 - Creek Vean

   S1:E812/13/1988

   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

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   Director:Andy Mayer

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