Building Sights Season 2

| # of Episodes : 9

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Seasons: 4

Total Episodes: 37

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Networks: BBC Two

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Nov 1, 1988

Recent Air Date: Jul 10, 1996

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: NR

Website: Link

Production Companies: BBC Elstree

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Episode 1

11 July 1989 - Arab Institute

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. Researcher RUTH ROSENTHAL / Producer CLARE PATERSON / Director PAUL TICKELL / BBC Elstree

Episode 2

04 October 1989 - Stamford Bridge

Architect Nigel Coates delights in Chelsea Football Stadium's East Stand (Darbourne and Darke, 1972). Researcher RUTH ROSENTHAL / Producer CLARE PATERSON / Director LESLEY MANNING / BBC Elstree

Episode 3

11 October 1989 - Janet Street-Porter's House

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. Researcher RUTH ROSENTHAL / Producer CLARE PATERSON / Director DAVID F. TURNBULL / BBC Elstree

Episode 4

18 October 1989 - Holland House

Peter Palumbo, chairman of the Arts Council, praises Holland House, an office block built in the City of London by the Dutch architect Berlage. Researcher RUTH ROSENTHAL / Producer CLARE PATERSON / BBC Elstree

Episode 5

25 October 1989 - David Mellor Cutlery Factory

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. Researcher RUTH ROSENTHAL / Producer CLARE PATERSON / Director TERRY BRAUN

Episode 6

01 November 1989 - The Blackburn House

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. Producer CLARE PATERSON / Director RUTH ROSENTHAL

Episode 7

08 November 1989 - D10 Boots Building, Nottingham

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. Producer CLARE PATERSON / Director TERRY FLAXTON

Episode 8

15 November 1989 - Royal College of Physicians

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. Producer CLARE PATERSON / Director RUSSELL ENGLAND / BBC Elstree

Episode 9

22 November 1989 - The Katharine Stephen Room

Internationally renowned architect James Stirling examines the Katharine Stephen Room - rare books library of Newnham College, Cambridge (1988 Birkin Haward/Joanna Van Heyningen). Producer CLARE PATERSON / Director GEOFF DUNLOP / BBC Elstree

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Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Clare Paterson
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