Best Of Grand Designs

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A complete celebration of Britain's favourite architectural show. Grand Designs is broadcast in over 130 countries & regularly gleans 5 million viewers in the UK. Its success says Kevin is due to 'good old-fashioned story telling; of joy & sorrow torment & triumph expressed tangibly in the making of a building'. To celebrate fourteen glorious years of film-making 100 editions of Grand Designs Magazine 100 separate programmes & ten years of hosting the Stirling Prize Kevin now delves into the archives to highlight his favourite projects. The Best of Grand Designs charts where domestic architecture has come from & is moving to in the first decade or so of a new millennium. & it places people at the centre of the stories of these buildings. Each project is supported by beautiful photography building plans & Kevin's own personal analysis together with commentary from his long-time collaborator Isabel Allen. From the off-grid ecological approach of woodsman Ben Law in Sussex to the quirky experimentalism of Sarah Wigglesworth & Jeremy Till's straw bale house in London Kevin demonstrates how Grand Designs continues to contribute to television history & why it provides an important legacy for good house design.