EP 1AvailableNow playingThe Timber Frame Kit House, Newhaven, East Sussex
45m·4/29/1999·0.0
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.
Grand Designs
Season 1 · Episode 1IMDb7.1
- Released
- 4/29/1999
- Duration
- 0h 47m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Cast
- Kevin McCloud
Overview
British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
Episodes
EP 1AvailableNow playingEP 2AvailableThe English Barn, Oxfordshire
45m·5/6/1999·0.0
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!
EP 3AvailableThe Co-op, Walter Segal Houses, Brighton
45m·5/13/1999·0.0
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.
EP 4AvailableThe Water Tower, Coleshill, Amersham
45m·5/20/1999·0.0
Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks of the surrounding reservoirs.
EP 5AvailableThe Eco-House, Suffolk
45m·6/3/1999·0.0
A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.
EP 6AvailableThe Chapel, Cornwall
45m·6/10/1999·0.0
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.
EP 7AvailableThe House of Straw, Islington, North London
45m·6/17/1999·0.0
Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.
EP 8AvailableThe Glass-House, Town Fields, Doncaster
45m·6/24/1999·0.0
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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