A love letter to buildings that'll make you stop and stare at ceilings.
Season 4 • Episode 8
LatestWriter Germaine Greer chooses the Glyndebourne Opera House on the Sussex Downs. The building, which opened in 1994, was constructed in just 18 months and was designed by Michael Hopkins and Patty Hopkins.
Cinematography
Every frame could hang in a gallery.
Production
Access to spaces mere mortals never see.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This series emerged during a late-80s BBC documentary golden age, when public television still believed audiences craved intellectual nourishment.
The show's slow pacing was deliberately anti-MTV, a radical choice that influenced every architecture documentary since. You'll recognize its DNA in modern hits.
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