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Cook’s Camden: London’s Great Experiment in Urban Housing (2010)

Subject

Architecture

The housing projects built by Camden when Sydney Cook was borough architect (1965-73) constitute not just the last great output of social housing in the UK but also arguably the most substantial...

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Kochuu: Japanese Architecture / Influence & Origin (2006)

Director

Jesper Wachtmeister

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £14.99 (QL) £145.00 Artfilms)

KOCHUU is about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future and traditional concepts,...

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Hayes on Saturday (1983)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report; Non-fiction

Brian Hayes presents this edition of Hayes on Saturday revisiting the week’s stories on LBC. Includes Len Murray on ten years as TUC General Secretary. Times Educational Supplement Editor Stuart McClure...

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Jim Helsinger (2019 Audio)

aka: Gertrude and Claudius

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

An interview with Helsinger, an actor and the artistic director of the Orlando Shakespeare Festival. He discusses his stage adaptation of John Updike’s ‘Gertrude and Claudius,' a prequel to Hamlet.

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New Town (2016)

Subject

Architecture; History

In 1752 Edinburgh launched a competition to design a ‘New Town’ for the Scottish capital. The city desperately needed an upgrade - it was overcrowded, filthy and crumbling. With Scotland a partner in the...

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Gothic Cathedral (1998)

Subject

Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £65.00

Discusses the construction and design of Gothic Medieval Cathedrals. Most of our Cathedrals and Abbey Churches were built during the Middle Ages. In the years following the Norman Conquest a huge rebuilding...

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Angus Vail (2019 Audio)

aka: Falstaff: Henry IV, Part I

Series

State of Shakespeare, The

Vail, a New Zealander based in New Jersey who works in the rock music industry, is building what is known as ‘The Container Globe,' a modern replica of Shakespeare’s theatre using shipping containers. In...

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House 1905 (2007)

Subject

Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £75.00

The film, in two parts, provides an introduction to the construction of an early Edwardian terraced house and also examines some of the defects present in the house 100 years later. It explains how the house...

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Architect and the Old Village, The (2006)

Director

Catarine Alves Costa

Subject

Anthropology; Architecture; Development studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 70 minutes), $195.00

Álvaro Siza Vieira, a famous visionary Portuguese architect, is called to coordinate the rehabilitation of the monuments and architectonic heritage of Cidade Velha (Old Village) in Santiago, one of the...

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Timber Frame Repairs (2004)

Subject

Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £65.00

This film on timber framing complements an earlier film which concentrated on the evolution, design and construction of traditional timber framed buildings. This film concentrates on their failure, repair...

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