Building Sights - Series 3

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Boeing 747

1 - Boeing 747

Air Date: January 15, 1991

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

Didcot Power Station

2 - Didcot Power Station

Air Date: January 22, 1991

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

Lloyds of London

3 - Lloyds of London

Air Date: January 29, 1991

Artist Michael Craig-Martin marvels at Lloyds of London.

Trellick Tower

4 - Trellick Tower

Air Date: February 5, 1991

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

St Mary's Hospital

5 - St Mary's Hospital

Air Date: February 12, 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.

Michelin Building

6 - Michelin Building

Air Date: March 5, 1991

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

Court House

7 - Court House

Air Date: March 12, 1991

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

Leicester University Engineering Building

8 - Leicester University Engineering Building

Air Date: March 19, 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.'

St Olaf House

9 - St Olaf House

Air Date: March 26, 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.'

Garden House

10 - Garden House

Air Date: April 2, 1991

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

County Arcade

11 - County Arcade

Air Date: April 9, 1991

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

Boarbank Hall Oratory

12 - Boarbank Hall Oratory

Air Date: April 16, 1991

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