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Season 3

Series 3

Series 3

Season 3

Series 3

  • Air date:1991-01-15
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  • Number of episodes:12
A 12-part series of personal reflections on 20th-century architecture

List of Episodes

Boeing 747
S3E1
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Air date: 1991-01-15

Runtime: min

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

Didcot Power Station
S3E2
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Air date: 1991-01-22

Runtime: min

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

Lloyds of London
S3E3
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Air date: 1991-01-29

Runtime: min

Artist Michael Craig-Martin marvels at Lloyds of London.

Trellick Tower
S3E4
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Air date: 1991-02-05

Runtime: min

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

St Mary's Hospital
S3E5
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Air date: 1991-02-12

Runtime: min

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.

Michelin Building
S3E6
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Air date: 1991-03-05

Runtime: min

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

Court House
S3E7
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Air date: 1991-03-12

Runtime: min

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

Leicester University Engineering Building
S3E8
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Air date: 1991-03-19

Runtime: min

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.'

St Olaf House
S3E9
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Air date: 1991-03-26

Runtime: min

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.'

Garden House
S3E10
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Air date: 1991-04-02

Runtime: min

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

County Arcade
S3E11
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Air date: 1991-04-09

Runtime: min

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

Boarbank Hall Oratory
S3E12
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Air date: 1991-04-16

Runtime: min

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

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