Grand Designs at 25

Kevin McCloud is best known for the internationally acclaimed, Bafta award-winning series Grand Designs which has been running on Channel 4 for 25 years. It is now shown around the world along with spin-off series including Grand Designs: The Street and Grand Designs: House of the Year. Grand Designs has grown to encompass Grand Designs Magazine and live consumer event Grand Designs Live. Kevin recently joined forces with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Mary Portas to challenge the government’s commitment to climate change policies for Channel 4’s The Great Climate Fight. Kevin’s other TV work includes two series of Man-Made Home, Kevin’s Supersized Salvage and Kevin McCloud’s Escape To The Wild, as well as his four part Grand Tour of Europe.Kevin has written several books on design and champions sustainable development, context, the historic environment, and ecological construction. He studied History of Art and Architecture at Cambridge, is an Honorary Fellow of both the RIBA and the Society of Light and Lighting, a fellow of WWF and a recalcitrant patron of a handful of organisations. His two ambitions remain to entertain and to make the built environment better – and consequently ‘make people feel better’.He was awarded an MBE in 2014 for his services to architecture.

• Foreword by John LonsdaleForeword by Daisy Goodwin1999    Water Tower Conversion – AmershamStraw Bale House – IslingtonHedgehog Co-op – Brighton 2001    Cruciform – LambournBarn Conversion – South Devon2003    Rustic – Sussex Waterworks – Chesterfield2004    Beach House – Hastings    Norwegian Longhouse – Glasgow    2005    Stealth House – Peckham    White House on a Hill – Belfast    2006    Cedar-clad Box – Stirling    Water Tower – Ashford    2007    Two Timber Houses – London    Straw Bale Roundhouse – Cambridgeshire    2008    Lime Kiln House – Midlothian    Sugar Cube – Bristol    2009    Vaulted Arch House – Weald of Kent    Apprentice Store – Somerset    2010    Recycled Bungalow – Isle of Wight    Passive House – Cotswolds    2011    Artists’ Barn – Braintree    House in the Hills – Herefordshire    2012    Glass House – Brixton    Artists’ Muse – Skye    2013    Flint Farm – Newbury    Hangar House – Strathaven    2014    Container House – County Derry    Engineered Timber House – North Cornwall     2015    Riverside Shed – South Downs    Stilt House – East Sussex    2016    Tree House – Gloucestershire    Shadow Barn – Horsham    2017    Extruded Barn – County Down    Earth-sheltered House – Peak District    2018    Concrete House – Lewes    Expedient House – Leominster2019    Watershed – Hull    Lighthouse – North Devon    2021    Pond House – Chichester    Self-heating House – BletchleyTriangle House – Billingshurst    Gardener’s Bothy – Kinross    2022    Spacesaver – Sydenham Hill    Scandi Villa – South Manchester    2023    House in the Woods – South Herefordshire    Passive House Premium – North Cotswolds    Honourable Mentions2003: Threshing Barn –Surrey2004: German Kit House – Esher2005: Modernisation of Elizabethan Farmhouse –Gloucester2006: Farmhouse Chalet Renovation – Les Gets, France2007: Gentrified Fourteenth-century Peel Tower –Yorkshire2008: Contemporary Family House – Bath2009: Twenty-first-century Farmhouse –Marlborough2010: Modest Contemporary Home –Woodbridge2011: Hole in theWall –Kensington2012: Camden Workshop –Camden2013: Cob House –East Devon2014: Cliff Top House –North Wales2015: Cow Shed – South Somerset2016: Woodland House – Essex2017: Box House – East London2018: Twins Houses – Sheffield2019: Round House –Lincolnshire2021: Cemetery Lodge – South West London2021: Barn Conversion – Sevenoaks2022: Modular House – Tunbridge Wells2023: Tree House – Scunthorpe  Afterword by Ned WilliamsEpisode List  Acknowledgements    Index    Picture Credits