Series 2

1989-07-11

Janet Abrams reflects on the Arab Institute on Paris's Left Bank (architect Jean Nouvel, 1988), one of President Mitterand's portfolio of buildings designed to change the profile of Paris.

1989-10-04

Architect Nigel Coates delights in Chelsea Football Stadium's East Stand (Darbourne and Darke, 1972).

1989-10-11

Television executive and ex-architecture student Janet Street-Porter asked Piers Gough to design a house for her in London's Smithfield. For the first time on television, she shows the result.

1989-10-18

Peter Palumbo, chairman of the Arts Council, praises Holland House, an office block built in the City of London by the Dutch architect Berlage.

1989-10-25

Writer Gillian Darley examines the new award-winning David Mellor Cutlery Factory in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Designed by architect Michael Hopkins and opened this year, it is extraordinary because it is round.

1989-11-01

Artist and photographer Jenny Okun visits the Blackburn House in London's Hampstead, by architects Peter Wilson and Chassay Wright (1989). She argues that the Blackburn House - part office, part gallery, part flat - is important because really adventurous domestic architecture is such a rarity.

1989-11-08

The Boots factory is a vast glass palace built by Owen Williams in 1932. Iwona Blazwick from London's ICA tours the factory which is acknowledged as a masterpiece of early British modernism.

1989-11-15

Architect Edward Cullinan thinks the best post-war building in London is the Royal College of Physicians in Regent's Park, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun in 1960.

1989-11-22

Internationally renowned architect James Stirling examines the Katharine Stephen Room - rare books library of Newnham College, Cambridge (1988 Birkin Haward/Joanna Van Heyningen).