Building Sights

Description: Lavishly illustrated photographic record features a wide range of world famous buildings from the UK, Europe and USA

Based on the BBC TV series "Building Sights", this photographic record features a wide range of buildings from the UK, Europe and USA. First shown in 1989, the programme has now completed five series. A selection of projects from each of the five series is featured, and accompanying essays by well-known artists, actors, architects and writers comment on the architecture of their favourite building and the reasons for it being so. A brief description is also given of the architect's or designer's work. Among the celebrities and projects featured are: Bruce McLean on the Glasgow School of Art; Alan Bennett on County Arcade, Leeds; Philip Johnson on Grand Central Terminal, New York; Jack Travis on the Hoover Dam, Nevada; John Malkovich on the Chrysler Building, New York; Sir Norman Foster on the Boeing 747; and Vaclav Havel on the Mames Building, Czech Republic.


Contents: Piers Gough on the Pumping Station by John Outram; Eva Jiricna on the Schlumberger Research by Michael Hopkins & Partners; Bruce McLean on the Glasgow School of Art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh; Janet Street-Porter on Smithfield House by Piers Gough; Lord Palumbo on Holland House by Hendrik Petrus Berlage; James Stirling on The Katharine Stephen Room by Birkin Haward and Joanna van Heyningen; lwona Blazwick on Boots Factory by Owen Williams; Edward Cullinan on the Royal College of Physicians, 1964, by Denys Lasdun; Michael Craig-Martin on The Lloyds Building by Richard Rogers & Partners; Alan Bennett on County Arcade by Frank Matcham; Richard MacCormac on Boarbank Hall Oratory by Benson & Forsyth Architects; Vaclav Havel on the Manes Building by Otakar Novotny; Philip Johnson on Grand Central Terminal by Warren and Wetmore; Diane Keaton on the Ennis-Brown House by Frank Lloyd Wright; Jack Travis on the Hoover Dam by the US Bureau of Reclamation; Frank Lebovitz on Michael Graves' residence by Michael Graves; John Malkovich on the Chrysler Building by William van Alen; Wil Alsop on The Glass House, 1994, by Future Systems; Norman Foster on the Boeing 747; Jools Holland on Canary Wharf by Cesar Pelli; Marina Warner on Didcot Power Station by Frederick Gibberd & Partners; Germaine Greer on Glyndebourne Opera House by Michael Hopkins.