Grand Designs
TV-PG
8.5
1999
Documentary
British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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- Cast:
- Kevin McCloud
Episode 8 : The Glass-House, Doncaster
June. 24,1999
Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel house in a suburb of Doncaster.
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Episode 7 : The House of Straw, Islington
June. 17,1999
Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.
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Episode 6 : The Chapel, Cornwall
June. 10,1999
Kevin McCloud travels to Cornwall to visit Gavin Allen and Jane Fitzsimons, who are trying to convert a chapel into a home and a teleworking office for Jane.
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Episode 5 : The Eco-House, Suffolk
June. 03,1999
A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.
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Episode 4 : The Water Tower, Coleshill, Amersham
May. 20,1999
Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks of the surrounding reservoirs.
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Episode 3 : The Co-op, Walter Segal Houses, Brighton
May. 13,1999
This project was a co-operative venture - 10 young families each put in 30 hours of construction work per week.
Kevin travels to Brighton to meet a co-operative of ten young families, including ex-travellers and single parents, who are building both their own and each others homes.
A housing association bought the land from the council for £58,000. Paul then worked with the association to put the co-operative together. All the members were people on the council's housing list.
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Episode 2 : The English Barn, Berkshire
May. 06,1999
Kevin travels to Oxfordshire to meet the Randolphs, who built their first house 10 years ago and now, in their 70s, have decided to do it all again!
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Episode 1 : The Timber Frame Kit House, Newhaven
April. 29,1999
A couple in Newhaven face a race against time as they build their dream home on windswept cliff-top site in time for the birth of their baby.
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