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  • čas přidán 18. 06. 2019
  • Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth tries to build a house out of sandbags and straw in Islington.
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    BAFTA winning Grand Designs is widely recognised as the pre-eminent series on modern architecture and design in Britain. It was originally conceived as a documentary series presented by designer and writer Kevin McCloud that takes us into the heart of life’s great unfolding human stories, where ordinary families risk all to experiment with architecture, technology, and their own lifestyle.
    Now in its 17th year, Grand Designs is one of Channel 4’s biggest returnable factual series and has grown into a global phenomenon, selling in over 100 territories. Apart from the TV series, the Grand Designs brand has also expanded to include books, a monthly magazine, architectural awards and a biannual exhibition, Grand Designs Live.

Komentáře • 131

  • @NJ-in6es
    @NJ-in6es Před rokem +9

    I know this couple personally and there house is amazing! Best house I've ever seen in my life. Looks like it belongs by the beach in Australia! Lovely couple and very down to earth too so all your horrid comments are non valid!

    • @TheGreatDigitalism
      @TheGreatDigitalism Před 6 měsíci

      Wonderful reply. This was an amazing episode and I absolutely respect these two for building such an innovative house. True masters of their craft!

    • @amyschneidhorst1384
      @amyschneidhorst1384 Před 2 měsíci

      Thanks for the update!

  • @jody024
    @jody024 Před 3 lety +8

    My left speakers loved this video.

  • @udalimb384
    @udalimb384 Před 2 lety +5

    Studio is a perfect example of sustainability. Loved it.

  • @danglybit1
    @danglybit1 Před 9 měsíci +2

    I have seen this building from her portfolio.... as an architect..lovely to find this episode!

  • @birdolla4441
    @birdolla4441 Před 2 lety +18

    I find it interesting that 2 university trained architects, who also teach this type of building, would have to redesign so much in order to complete their project.
    Especially considering straw building is popular in colder climes of Europe and has been for many years

  • @U4EA2007
    @U4EA2007 Před 4 lety +15

    When he mentioned rat invasions in the beginning the look on the wife's face made me laugh.

  • @Rick-se5qm
    @Rick-se5qm Před 4 lety +16

    On a business trip I rented a Mews house, very near London Paddington station. The rail tracks ran behind and below the stone house. The rumbling and brake screeching starting at 4am was unnerving. After 3 weeks thankfully it was time to return to the US. I cannot imagine building a home next to tracks like this.

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety +2

      www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/isthisthemostinfluentialhouse-inageneration/8677581.article

    • @andreaandrea6716
      @andreaandrea6716 Před 2 lety

      @@Scorpionturtle Thank you!!

  • @bravobravus
    @bravobravus Před rokem +3

    so SMART idea to post old episodes of GD.. thanks!

  • @hander9929
    @hander9929 Před 3 lety +5

    its call delusion, game over when it hit you

  • @emsilverman2
    @emsilverman2 Před 3 lety +18

    The husband and Kevin talk over the wife and ignore her comments ceaselessly. It’s really hard to watch. Hope you’ve learned to do better, boys.

    • @jonathanbennetts2632
      @jonathanbennetts2632 Před 3 lety +2

      Take it from me, Collin is and always has been an are sole.

    • @stephenrohaim382
      @stephenrohaim382 Před 3 lety +1

      ofcourse the guys have to talk over women, how else is there going to be any sense talking.

  • @towelam2421
    @towelam2421 Před 3 lety +6

    Me a young student of architecture looking at the rotating design graphic and laughing in 2020 CGI/ realistic rendering.

  • @nigisha03
    @nigisha03 Před 4 lety +24

    They should have a warning - house not finished by end of program.

    • @IndepenisDay
      @IndepenisDay Před rokem

      Yeah, and wet floor signs, caution tape, hazmat suits, and gas masks. It's a dangerous world out here. I hope you made it okay

    • @IndepenisDay
      @IndepenisDay Před rokem

      You should have a warning for this comment, "heres how the episode ends". Thanks chief

  • @SK-lt1so
    @SK-lt1so Před 4 lety +22

    Proving, once again, that when "academia" meets "reality", reality always wins.

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety +1

      NOPE. the building went on to win the biggest prize in English architecture and it was feature in series 2. oh and the architect was made a dame of the realm by the Queen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Wigglesworth

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety

      does this look like he academics lost? www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/isthisthemostinfluentialhouse-inageneration/8677581.article

    • @SK-lt1so
      @SK-lt1so Před 4 lety +6

      @@Scorpionturtle
      "Did they lose"? Yes!
      Did you read the article? Apparently not!
      "Straw bales...are not more widely used to the fears of the industry and a general misperception that they are wasteful of space...
      future of the composting toilet. ‘We love it, but it needs turning twice a year and it’s hard work; it’s not really something you would want to get someone else to do for you,’
      The house has too many messages to be that influential in the world of sustainable design...
      I don’t want to knock it but the house is too dense with messages.
      She bemoans the state of sustainable design today. ‘When we designed this house, the sustainability debate was quite live and open. Today it’s really closed down..."
      English aristocrats fawning over themselves doesn't prove anything!

    • @davidjenson7773
      @davidjenson7773 Před 2 lety

      Amen

  • @imari2305
    @imari2305 Před 4 lety +27

    What a monstrosity!!! They should've let Kevin build their home. His little straw bale studio turned out perfect!! I wonder if they ever finished building it? A waste of money!!

  • @dianneedwards2491
    @dianneedwards2491 Před 5 lety +6

    I love the music!

  • @wanderingohm
    @wanderingohm Před 3 lety +1

    The evil laugh in the background at 37.59 😂

  • @janridout2715
    @janridout2715 Před 4 lety +6

    Architects are they...? I wouldn’t want them building a chook house for me......!

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety +3

      well they don't do charity work. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/isthisthemostinfluentialhouse-inageneration/8677581.article

  • @swannvictor1388
    @swannvictor1388 Před 3 lety +7

    The building is still there and can be seen on Google Earth. Frankly, I think they wasted a valuable site as I believe the finished product, while creative, is actually rather ugly.

  • @BooBooKittyFuzzyBritches
    @BooBooKittyFuzzyBritches Před 5 lety +5

    The husband looks like if Michael Keaton and Donnie Osmond had a 90s baby.

  • @michaellockwood4351
    @michaellockwood4351 Před 4 lety +9

    Do not use these two architects. They could not design a chicken coop.

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety +1

      oh is that your expert opinion. I guess the entire architecture community was wrong. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/isthisthemostinfluentialhouse-inageneration/8677581.article

    • @purewildflowerhoney6802
      @purewildflowerhoney6802 Před 2 lety

      ​@@Scorpionturtle just shut up you blowhard windbag. why do you care so much?

  • @thierrytalon8600
    @thierrytalon8600 Před 2 lety

    Nice to see people adventurous with a new building!

  • @Norfolk250
    @Norfolk250 Před 4 lety +2

    I can appreciate the masculine sexy jazz music playing in the midground during Kevin’s build (35:58). HA!!

  • @mikebrison1838
    @mikebrison1838 Před 3 lety +6

    I think I'll build an experimental house. The floors will be dried dung. The roof will be cotton candy with toothpicks. And I'll build the walls out of little round marbles picked up at thrift shops. I'll pull the wiring out of old slot cars. Any ideas for plumbing?

    • @maryearll3359
      @maryearll3359 Před 2 lety +2

      @ Mike Brison..... I'm saving used plastic drinking straws for your drainage., 😂😘

  • @WambaAlice
    @WambaAlice Před 2 lety +3

    It's everything that's wrong in contemporary architecture put together. No thoughts about where the building is, so it had to be redesigned to avoid trains?! WTF? Oh, let's use this thin steel web that won't stand a fire and will make the building collapse, what could go wrong?

  • @user-rg6wi1bv2y
    @user-rg6wi1bv2y Před 5 měsíci

    Love The background Music😂😂

  • @jaomwtoptd
    @jaomwtoptd Před 3 lety +6

    I think its nice to have imagination and try new ideas, theory is one thing, practice is something else. They sometimes behaved like teenagers, I think they should have had a responsible adult watching over them.

  • @SODtv
    @SODtv Před rokem

    I'm pretty sure this is the one, but a revisited episode of this is being aired on Channel 4 (in the UK) on 9th November 2022.

  • @johnallen7807
    @johnallen7807 Před 2 lety +2

    A site that probably provided 6 or 7 local jobs and a lifetime of skill and experience has been destroyed.

  • @brendatajik6150
    @brendatajik6150 Před 4 lety +3

    He says at 10:52 . . . "You could have filled this whole thing up with nasty little naughty houses" . . . WTH?

    • @jbernstein
      @jbernstein Před 4 lety +6

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy_housing
      Since the lot size was so large, he remarked he could have made some money off developing it by cramming in cheap houses instead of a large piece of architecture as he did.

  • @katsleggsful
    @katsleggsful Před 4 lety +4

    Skipping this one. So not interested in homes that take decades to complete. 😤

  • @niklar55
    @niklar55 Před rokem

    The entrance door to his little ''cubby hole'' is as insulated as a sieve!
    As for architects! Enough Said!
    .

  • @peterkompter2417
    @peterkompter2417 Před 4 lety +2

    straw not England maybe but you know you could look at the way the rest of the world has used them for years already. You should maybe check them out first.

  • @user-lb1eh8hn8s
    @user-lb1eh8hn8s Před 8 měsíci

    After watching this, would you seriously use an architect? I don’t think so.

  • @tylerjones6239
    @tylerjones6239 Před 4 lety +4

    Unfinished by the end of the episode. Cliff hanger. Where's the finished project?

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety +1

      shown in the second series.

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety +1

      www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/isthisthemostinfluentialhouse-inageneration/8677581.article

    • @momasu
      @momasu Před rokem

      czcams.com/video/_Y76m8qrr10/video.html

  • @ekaos5099
    @ekaos5099 Před 5 lety +3

    This is very late in the progress of this project but, has anybody thought about the degradation effects of Ultra Violet radiation upon the straw.

    • @goofyleo3869
      @goofyleo3869 Před 5 lety +4

      Or from a match??

    • @gladitsnotme
      @gladitsnotme Před 3 lety +2

      Looks good to me: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/07/return-sarah-wigglesworth-straw-bale-house-stock-orchard-street

  • @pechaa
    @pechaa Před 5 lety +3

    I didn’t quite catch the purpose of the springs.

    • @richardwebb2348
      @richardwebb2348 Před 5 lety

      Sarah explained the use of springs, and Kevin later in the show

    • @henkolivier3503
      @henkolivier3503 Před 4 lety +6

      To soften the vibration of the passing trains on the structure of the house

    • @pechaa
      @pechaa Před 4 lety +1

      @@henkolivier3503 Thank you!

  • @philrogers2406
    @philrogers2406 Před 3 lety +1

    You said it Kevin. . No democratic planning consent. .

  • @pauljames9393
    @pauljames9393 Před 2 lety

    Temporary Housing has two meanings then. I bet the NHBC would never touch that with a barge pole ! 😧.

  • @tkivi1
    @tkivi1 Před 4 lety +6

    WAY too many commercials.

  • @kastironwoman6009
    @kastironwoman6009 Před 3 lety

    "If it's built this Century!!" LOL!

  • @purewildflowerhoney6802
    @purewildflowerhoney6802 Před 2 lety +1

    "never get high on your own supply"...

  • @fredygump5578
    @fredygump5578 Před 5 lety +11

    Is that steel worker trying to be a poet? Or does he always talk that way?

    • @baoboumusic
      @baoboumusic Před 4 lety +2

      It felt like impromptu theatre to me :)

  • @rudimunk7030
    @rudimunk7030 Před 4 lety +21

    Imagine being so inept as an architect and project manager that a TV-host has to step in and show how it's done in the end.

    • @niklar55
      @niklar55 Před 4 lety +6

      In my experience, as a builder, the architects that I've had contact with were arsetects!
      They're great at drawing pretty pictures, and ''making statements'' but dont have a f'ing clue about building.
      One had designed FOUR steel columns (instead of rsj's) with a total weight of one and a half TONNES, for a roof extension. (The loading on the Victorian brickwork would have been impossible.) Two were in the apex of the roof, doing NOTHING!
      I deleted all of them, replaced with just one RSJ, weighing about 100 Kg. and did the calculations to keep the building inspector happy.
      There were more, many more.

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety +5

      hardly, they finished it and it won many awards and Sarah has gone on to being an award winning architect. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Wigglesworth

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety +3

      @@niklar55 as a builder of any note it's interesting you have no idea who these architects are. where's your wikipedia entry and MBE from the queen? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Wigglesworth

    • @niklar55
      @niklar55 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Scorpionturtle What does the queen know about building, and architecture?

    • @niklar55
      @niklar55 Před 4 lety +4

      @@Scorpionturtle
      As a builder of any note, I earned my living at it for thirty years, how many years have your earned your living as a builder?
      In addition, you should learn to read, AND understand.
      _''In my experience, as a builder, the architects that I'VE had CONTACT with were arsetects!''_
      Also, there's a lot of difference between drawing pretty pictures, and 'making a statement' and actually building their damn fantasies. That takes engineers.

  • @robertcrawford6727
    @robertcrawford6727 Před 5 lety +4

    do we know what happened to these people? like this is 20 years later......

    • @robertcrawford6727
      @robertcrawford6727 Před 5 lety +18

      asked and answered, i guess:
      www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/isthisthemostinfluentialhouse-inageneration/8677581.article

    • @KNESES1
      @KNESES1 Před 5 lety +2

      @@robertcrawford6727 thanks for this info

    • @scalare70
      @scalare70 Před 4 lety +3

      @@robertcrawford6727 Thank you - found the house in Google maps, and it looks so cool :)

    • @imari2305
      @imari2305 Před 4 lety +2

      @@robertcrawford6727 Thanks for posting the link. It does look way better, but I still think it's a monstrosity.

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety +2

      she's one of the most famous architects in Britain and he is the head of Central Saint Martin. not bad for all these internet warrior mocking them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Wigglesworth

  • @maryjarvis4245
    @maryjarvis4245 Před rokem

    Those who can, do. Those who can't, live in straw towers and work in acadamia.

  • @tomjohnson3878
    @tomjohnson3878 Před 5 lety +1

    too many ads

    • @fredygump5578
      @fredygump5578 Před 5 lety +2

      try a browser with ad blockers. I don't see a single ad.

  • @ianmorris7485
    @ianmorris7485 Před 4 lety +6

    "Desperately overcomplicated" says Jeremy, changing things on the fly, no final design before they started... who on earth would employ these two as architects? Pretentious shit seems to be their speciaiity, great on paper, impractical in reality. No wonder they are mostly working in academia.

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety +1

      She consider one of the best architects in the UK. Here's the result. Funny how ignorant people can be. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/isthisthemostinfluentialhouse-inageneration/8677581.article

    • @Onward1969
      @Onward1969 Před 4 lety +3

      I used to know 2 architects, husband and wife. They both became teachers at a university. They told me is was too hard to practice as an architects. I found out, that all the teachers in this big faculty only one was practicing. So now we have architects teaching students how to be architects that have never been practicing architects. That is why, it becomes apparent that this couple have no idea what there doing. You summed it up. I have a feeling after this they went right back to teaching and lecturing around the world to bright eyed and bushy tailed students.

    • @yadiracamacho499
      @yadiracamacho499 Před 3 lety +2

      They were experimenting with their own money, not building something for a client. I think it's one of the ugliest houses I've seen on this kind of shows, but I get that it's just them playing and testing boundaries. It's not meant to be practical, it's the architectural equivalent of the weird clothes you can see on a high fashion runway

  • @jennistone364
    @jennistone364 Před 2 lety

    why so unprepared having had 4 years to plan it>?? and was it a sign of the misogynistic times that the woman was mostly ignored by kevin in conversations ..

  • @3r1creations
    @3r1creations Před 3 lety

    02/07/21 - Only hearing audio on the left. (headphones) Tested other videos from the series, and from other sources and works fine. This issue caused me to read down through some other comments. Seeing one that reads the house is NOT finished by the end has caused me to just abandon this episode. Wasted time to me, to not see a finished product.

  • @victoriariviere9503
    @victoriariviere9503 Před 4 lety

    In America they build straw house,s ,but first they dip the bails in liquide cement.

  • @goofyleo3869
    @goofyleo3869 Před 5 lety +2

    So, what you're trying to say is that weed was legal in the UK in '99?
    Also, from the side; they look like brothers. 😆

  • @rwhitehead6551
    @rwhitehead6551 Před 5 lety +6

    Kevin is too kind with his evaluation. I would not hire these two to build a dog house. No plan, new age crap, no budget, and to think they design for others is scary. Why do all the construction workers do it all by hand? Must be union stuff. I haven't seen this many hand saws since 1950.

    • @richardwebb2348
      @richardwebb2348 Před 5 lety

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Wigglesworth

    • @rwhitehead6551
      @rwhitehead6551 Před 5 lety +2

      @@richardwebb2348 Looks like she produced 8 notable works in about 20 years and mainly an academic. Still would not hire them to build a sustainable doghouse, much less a residence. Way too new age to be practical, but looks good in the academic world where theory is much more important than function or practicality.

    • @rudimunk7030
      @rudimunk7030 Před 4 lety +1

      Also, did you notice that it was 5 years of planning? Years, not weeks or months. It's quite strange how things where so loosie-goosie and all over the place. The builders didn't even know how the finished product was going to look to start with.

    • @imari2305
      @imari2305 Před 4 lety

      @S Win remember this was back in 1998-99. Building practices have changed since then.

    • @Scorpionturtle
      @Scorpionturtle Před 4 lety

      they don't do charity cases so you don't have to worry. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/isthisthemostinfluentialhouse-inageneration/8677581.article

  • @kevinmcgrath3591
    @kevinmcgrath3591 Před 2 lety +1

    finished job here czcams.com/video/RY5-s28YbGw/video.html

  • @Hendrik-jan-de-tuinman

    god they couldn't have made it more ugly

  • @roberte5057
    @roberte5057 Před rokem

    In my opinion it is ugly.