Building Sights
Building Sights is a TV show on BBC4. Personal reflections on the best of 20th-century architecture in Britain. The most recent episode is from 11 November 2026.
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Architect James Stirling examines the Katharine Stephen Room, a rare books library at Newnham College, Cambridge, designed by Joanna van Heyningen and Birkin Haward.
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Architect Sir Norman Foster looks at the jumbo jet, a unique 'building' that flies. First broadcast in 1991.
October 2026
Architect Sand Helsel applauds Trellick Tower, a brutalist tower block in west London, designed
Writer Alan Bennett wanders through the architecturally exotic County Arcade in Leeds, designed by Frank Matcham in 1900.
Artist Derek Jarman returns to his former art master's house in Wimborne, Dorset, which he helped to build.
September 2026
First transmitted in 1996, the poet Simon Armitage finds inspiration in the Humber Bridge.