Architectures
Architecture, often referred to as "the mother of all arts" can be scrolled below and includes the work of many of the great contempory architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Nathaniel Kahn and Le Cobusier. Now more than ever do Christchurch folk need to be exposed to the rebuild possibilities. Prepare to be inspired...
The Human Scale (2012)
7.4/10
Director: Andreas M Dalsgaard
Starring: Jan Gehl
Based on the work of famed Danish architect and urban planner Jan Gehl and his visionary work transforming urban environments from traffic-congested s... Read more
Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home (2012)
7.6/10
Starring: Kevin McCloud
Kevin McCloud wants to buy himself a beautiful piece of woodland, roll up his sleeves and build a cabin in the woods. Hes decided that everything has... Read more
Grand Designs: Series 11 (2011)
8.5/10
Starring: Kevin McCloud
Kevin McCloud returns for an eleventh series to follow more stories of some of Britain's most ambitious self-building projects, as intrepid individual... Read more
Restoration Man: Series 2 (2011)
7.7/10
Director: Lionel Mill
Starring: George Clarke
All over Britain, thousands of old buildings lie forgotten and neglected, tangled up with red tape and development restrictions. Many of these propert... Read more
Eames: The Architect and the Painter (2011)
7.2/10
Director: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey
Design history was born in a cavernous warehouse on a gritty street in Venice Beach, California, where Charles and Ray Eames set up their Renaissance-... Read more
Grand Designs: Series 10 (2010)
8.5/10
Starring: Kevin McCloud
Grand Designs will celebrate 100 episodes as the show returns with a brand new series. Designer and writer Kevin McCloud is back to follow the structu... Read more
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? (2010)
7.1/10
Director: Norberto Lopez Amado, Carlos Carcas
Starring: Norman Foster
Norman Foster is one of the world's most celebrated architects, a designer whose buildings combine a striking visual style with a conscious desire to... Read more
World's Greenest Homes: Season 1 and 2 (2010)
8.3/10
A visually stunning, all access tour of some of the most extraordinary houses ever built. From temples of glass and steel, to palaces made from presse... Read more
Mansion: Great Houses of Europe - The Complete Series (2010)
5/10
They were the jewels in the European Crown. Built from the most splendid designs by the greatest architects of their time, the great houses of Europe... Read more
Art Deco Icons: The Complete Series (2009)
Starring: David Heathcote
Architectural historian David Heathcote takes a fascinating look at the glamorous art deco design movement which arrived in Britain in the 1920s. Sele... Read more