Building Sights★ 0.019884 seasonsEndedDocumentaryPersonal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture.Watch NowNetworkBBC TwoLanguageEnglishEpisodesSeries 1Series 2Series 3Series 4EP 1E1Water Authority Pumping StationArchitect Piers Gough looks at the brand new Water Authority Pumping Station on London's Isle of Dogs, designed by John Outram , that's good enough to eat in ...1988-11-01EP 2E2Marsh CourtWriter Jonathan Meades revisits Marsh Court, a private house-turned-prep-school designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1904 and with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll. Meades finds the place an ever-changing maze.1988-11-07E3Schlumberger BuildingEva Jiricna -- the architect responsible for designing interiors for Harrods, Joseph and parts of the Lloyds building -- visits Schlumberger Cambridge Research (architect, Michael Hopkins 1984) and is enchanted by its modernity.1988-11-08E4Byker WallWriter Beatrix Campbell visits the successful Byker housing estate in Newcastle, designed by Ralph Erskine in the early 1970s. It's an epic development - both monumental and modest, and Beatrix Campbell describes why it is such an ingenious design solution.1988-11-15E5Alexander Fleming HouseStephen Bayley, curator of the Conran Design Museum opening in 1989 argues, in the face of popular opinion, that Alexander Fleming House (Erno Goldfinger, 1962) in London's Elephant and Castle is a building worth preserving in its original design.1988-11-23EP 6E6Glasgow School of ArtArtist Bruce McLean attended Saturday morning classes at the Glasgow School of Art from the age of 6, and went on to study there in the 1960s. But it is only recently says McLean, that he has realised the influence Charles Rennie Mackintosh's building (1897-1909) had on him.1988-11-29EP 7E7De La Warr PavilionFirst-year architecture student Sophie Hicks delights in the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, Sussex. 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