Grand Designs

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Grand Designs
Genre	Property
Starring	Kevin McCloud
Opening theme	"Grand Designs" by David Lowe
Ending theme	as above
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Running time	1 hour (with adverts)
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Links
Official website

Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud and produced by Talkback. The properties featured in the series vary wildly from homes underground to converted water towers, with the only common factor being that they're all rather unusual or extravagant in some way. An example project from the series was Ben Law's woodsman cottage which was built largely with wood harvested from the surrounding woodland and using few commercial materials and predominantly free labour.

A series on properties outside the UK, called Grand Designs Abroad, was broadcast in Autumn 2004.

Another spin-off show began in February 2007 called Grand Designs: Trade Secrets, which was broadcast immediately after the main Channel 4 show each week. This gave hints and tips about building and showed some "behind the scenes" material from the week's show.

There is also a magazine of the same name published by Channel 4, and an annual exhibition, "Grand Designs Live", both derived from the success of the TV series.

Contents 1 Episode list 1.1 Series One 1.2 Series Two 1.3 Series Three 1.4 Series Four, 2004 1.5 Series Five, 2005 1.6 Series Six, 2006 1.7 Series Seven, 2007 2 Grand Designs Abroad episode list 2.1 2004 series 3 External links

[edit] Episode list

[edit] Series One

• The Water tower, Coleshill, Amersham
• The English barn, Berkshire
• The co-op, Walter Segal houses Brighton [1]
• The chapel, Cornwall, with interior garden and suspended staircase
• The glass-house, Doncaster
• The house of straw, Islington (architects: Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth)
• The timber frame kit house, Newhaven
• The eco-house, Suffolk

[edit] Series Two

• The cruciform house, Berkshire
• The self-build, Birmingham
• The derelict barns, Devon
• The jewel box, London
• The Regency villa, Surrey
• The New England house, Sussex
• The isolated cottage, Brecon Beacons, Wales
• The wool mill, Yorkshire

[edit] Series Three

• The underground house, Cumbria
• The water-works, Derbyshire, also known as Chesterfield
• The traditional cottage, Herefordshire
• The terrace conversion, Hackney
• The wooden box, Peterborough
• The Victorian threshing barn, Surrey
• The woodsman's house made by Ben Law, Sussex
• Inverted V roof, Cloud 8, Buckinghamshire[2]

[edit] Series Four, 2004

• An idiosyncratic home Dorset
• The oak-framed house Argyll
• Modernist sugar cube, Sussex
• Glass-fronted house, Clapham
• 19th-century sandstone house, Edinburgh
• Customised German kit house, Surrey
• The violin factory, Waterloo
• Return to Cloud 8, Buckinghamshire

[edit] Series Five, 2005

• A family home built out of Finnish logs, Kent
• A 21st century answer to the Roman villa, Belfast
• The 16th century farmhouse, Gloucester
• The sliding glass roof house, Peckham
• Shaped like a curvy seashell, Devon
• The Miami-style beach house, Devon

[edit] Series Six, 2006

• The Loch House, Killearn
• The Contemporary Barn Conversion, Ross-on-Wye
• The Contemporary Cedar Clad Home, Stirling
• Water tower conversion, Ashford
• Revisited: 19th Century Manor House, Creuse
• Revisited: Les Gets chalet, Les Gets, France (From Abroad, see below.)
• Garden House, Mies van der Rohe inspired house, Exeter

[edit] Series Seven, 2007

• The 15th Century Castle, Skipton (extended 90-minute episode)
• The Thatched Cottage, Hampshire
• The Eco-Barge, Medway
• The Bournemouth Penthouse, Bournemouth
• Revisited: Wales, the isolated cottage, Brecon Beacons
• 17th Century church, Tipton

[edit] Grand Designs Abroad episode list

[edit] 2004 series

• Florida Villa, Alicante, Spain
• 300 year old chalet, Les Gets, France
• House from straw, Lot, France
• Modernist Villa, Málaga, Spain
• Olive farm into a Roman-style country estate, Puglia, Italy - Il Collegio
• 19th century French farmhouse, Creuse, France - Chez Jallot
• Church conversion, Ireland
• Derelict 1,000-year-old castle, Tuscany, Italy

[edit] External links

• Grand Designs at channel4.com
• Grand Designs Live website
• The Woodland House a book describing Ben Law's House.
• Peckham House Monty shows how they transformed a derelict piece of land into the name famous Peckham House with the sliding glass roof.