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Building Sights

Building Sights Series 3: Episode Guide & Ratings

Series 3 Plot

A 12-part series of personal reflections on 20th-century architecture

Building Sights Series 3 aired on January 15th, 1991.

Series 3 Episodes

1. Boeing 747

January 15th, 1991

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

2. Didcot Power Station

January 22nd, 1991

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

3. Lloyds of London

January 29th, 1991

Artist Michael Craig-Martin marvels at Lloyds of London.

4. Trellick Tower

February 5th, 1991

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

5. St Mary's Hospital

February 12th, 1991

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.

6. Michelin Building

March 5th, 1991

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

7. Court House

March 12th, 1991

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

8. Leicester University Engineering Building

March 19th, 1991

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.'

9. St Olaf House

March 26th, 1991

To Alice Rawsthorn, design correspondent of The Financial Times, St Olaf House (1931) is 'a little island of art deco splendour tucked away between the south bank of the River Thames and the railway arches of London Bridge. It's one of those quirky places, where everything down to the tiniest detail was designed in a very particular way.'

10. Garden House

April 2nd, 1991

Film director and artist Derek Jarman visits Garden House in Wimborne, Dorset, built by his art master Robin Noscoe.

11. County Arcade

April 9th, 1991

Alan Bennett wanders through the County Arcade, Leeds (Frank Matcham 1900).

12. Boarbank Hall Oratory

April 16th, 1991

Architect Richard MacCormac marvels at the Boarbank Hall Oratory near Grange over Sands, Cumbria.

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