George Clarke's Amazing Spaces (2012)
For many the dream of having a bolt hole or a place to escape from their hectic lives can seem unobtainable. Architect George Clarke shows how such big dreams can be achieved in small and affordable places. George delves into the extraordinary world of small builds to meet the highly creative people who are taking tiny, unpromising spaces and creating the most incredible places to live and work and play. There are homes made out of shipping containers, horseboxes, and old buses. Others are building tiny huts or incredible treehouses in the middle of the woods.
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Episode 1 - Sky Cabin and a Viking Longhouse
Release Date: 2024-06-20George has the idea of turning a rusty scissor lift into a cabin in the sky and starts his Denmark trip with a visit to a modern take on the old Viking longhouse. After a bus from a previous series burned in a fire, its owner replaces it with an ambitious new build made of four shipping containers. Plus, a beautician and her daughter create a four-wheeled beauty parlour.
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Episode 2 - Seashell Bar and a Train Carriage
Release Date: 2024-06-27George meets an actor moving up the four-wheel property ladder and visits an underground bar in Denmark covered in seashells. Plus: It's full steam ahead for a dog-friendly holiday let.
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Episode 3 - Wedding Cake Folly and a Circular House
Release Date: 2024-07-04A man pays homage to one of the great modernist homes with his new garden room and George visits the teenager who created a shepherd's hut last year, to follow his latest build. George visits a bizarre garden folly inspired by a wedding cake, a striking beach house inspired by pill boxes and an old RNLI station. In Denmark, the architect checks out a stunning circular house inspired by the owner's car collection.
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Episode 4 - Off-Roader, Luxury Cabin and a Skip
Release Date: 2024-07-11A couple attempt to combine an army lorry and an old caravan to create the ultimate off-roader, and a man returns to his family's farm to build a luxury cabin. Meanwhile, George visits a building in Denmark that was designed to be a work of art and an office, checks out a skip that's been turned into a home, and takes inspiration for his scissor lift cabin from a stunning 18th-century bridge.
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Episode 5 - Water Pump House and a Danish Tree Pod
Release Date: 2024-07-18George meets a couple turning a derelict water pumping station into a luxury holiday home and an outdoor swimmer building a futurist micro camper. Plus: a glamping tree pod in a Danish forest.
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Episode 6 - Tuk-Tuk Camper and a Nuclear Bunker
Release Date: 2024-07-25George follows two eccentric builds, as a couple fit a camper on the back of a tiny Italian Tuk-Tuk and a dad-of-two creates a quirky getaway in an abandoned nuclear bunker.
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Episode 7 - Mini Canal and a Crane Hotel
Release Date: 2024-08-01In an incredibly ambitious build, a man attempts to create a mini canal and lock to house a narrowboat. And in Denmark, George visits a one-bed hotel housed in an old industrial crane.
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Episode 8 - Glamping Pod, Eco-Builds and Sky Cabin
Release Date: 2024-08-08George meets a couple turning a ship's wheelhouse into a glamping pod, revisits a designer from the very first series to see his gorgeous new eco-builds, and finally reveals his cabin in the sky.