Grand Designs (1999)
British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
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Episode 1 - The Timber Frame Kit House, Newhaven
Release Date: 1999-04-29A 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.
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Episode 2 - The English Barn, Berkshire
Release Date: 1999-05-06Kevin 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!
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Episode 3 - The Co-op, Walter Segal Houses, Brighton
Release Date: 1999-05-13This 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.
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Episode 4 - The Water Tower, Coleshill, Amersham
Release Date: 1999-05-20Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks of the surrounding reservoirs.
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Episode 5 - The Eco-House, Suffolk
Release Date: 1999-06-03A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.
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Episode 6 - The Chapel, Cornwall
Release Date: 1999-06-10Kevin 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.
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Episode 7 - The House of Straw, Islington
Release Date: 1999-06-17Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.
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Episode 8 - The Glass-House, Doncaster
Release Date: 1999-06-24Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel house in a suburb of Doncaster.