![]() Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud. s04e12 - Revisited - Argyll: The Oak-Framed House.s04e11 - Revisited - Walton: The German Huf Haus.s04e10 - Revisited - Clapham: The Curved House.s04e09 - Revisited - Waterloo: The Violin Factory.s04e08 - Revisited - Edinburgh: 19th Century Sandstone House.s04e05 - Sussex: The Modernist Sugar Cube.s04e04 - 19th-Century Sandstone House, Edinburgh.s04e03 - Edinburgh: 19th Century Sandstone House. ![]() s04e02 - Customised German Kit House, Surrey.The crumbling building was hemmed in on all sides and had no views, but Louise had a vision of a spectacular loft-style home that would combine stunning design with utter luxury Grand Designs Season 4 Episodes. Milko's job as a well-paid City banker meant they could think big, so Louise set up her own architectural practice and they bought a disused violin factory in the heart of London's Waterloo. Sadly, Gil died a few years ago, but now Kevin returns to meet with Hillary again and to see whether or not their building has settled into its landscape, whether it's still multi-coloured, and to find out just how life is for her as a British widow living up in the Andalucian hills.Louise and Milko wanted to build the home of a lifetime. ![]() But if they could just finish the build, it promised to be the coolest retirement home Kevin McCloud has ever seen. The local residents didn't like it and the mayor tried to get it re-painted white. The couple put all their trust in a local Spanish builder who had never built a house like this before. Rejecting the coastal sprawl around Malaga they found a virgin plot of land up in the Andalucian hills for just £35,000.īut instead of building a home like the traditional old fincas nearby, their architect son's design was a confrontational, modernist glass box, surrounded by boldly coloured connected rooms, hidden behind a giant citadel wall.Ĭonstruction proved stressful. Ten years ago Gil and Hillary Briffa decided to retire to southern Spain. Kevin catches up with the story of a daring modernist home in the Andalucian hills in southern Spain. The contractors struggle to deliver on an incredibly tight fixed price contract, and Ben and Rachel have to work flat out in their day jobs to pay for everything. Delivery of key elements like the giant glass window panes is massively delayed. Their cutting edge new materials struggle to get past the local planning department and building control. With the help of their architect friend Zac, they decide not to knock it down, but to radically redesign, remodel and transform this unsightly lump it into a sleek, crisp, modernist masterpiece. Only problem is the house itself - an ugly, inefficient and uninspiring red brick property. Phil and Michael's version cleverly combines a vast, white, dramatic open-plan party pad upstairs, with muddy functional farming spaces below.Īs the builders go to work on the extraordinary hand-crafted flint exterior, complete with the largest sliding trapezoid window in Britain, Phil and Michael must juggle construction with farming the land.Īnd in order to make it all work financially they decide to set up a new micro-brewery in the barn.Ī young couple want take on an average 1950s house and turn it into an architectural masterpiece.Īfter a year of searching London for somewhere exciting to live with their young girls Lola and Sylva, Ben and Rachel Hammond stumbled upon a house on a totally unique plot, buried within the leafy depths of a beautiful south London park. Determined to bring a bit of urban glamour to their new home, they want a 21st-century farmhouse unlike anything the area has seen before. They faced two big problems however: first there was an agricultural tie on the land, so Phil and Michael would have to become farmers the second problem was the uninspiring faux-alpine timber chalet serving as a farmhouse - it had to go.īut Phil and Michael have decided they don't want to build a regular brick farmhouse as a replacement. Until they fell in love with Christmas Farm, near Newbury, and took the life changing decision to quit their urban media jobs and move to the country. ![]() Michael Butcher and Phil Palmer were confirmed Londoners, loft-livers in the heart of Soho. Confirmed city dwellers Michael and Phil have moved to the country to run a farm, start a micro brewery and create in a vast, dramatic 21st-century farmhouse to live in.
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