Did anyone watch Grand Designs last night?

only caught the end. 4 million quid, was it?

plus eight years plus one marriage

minus one house

new series of Australian GD started last night. they do love their Cor-ten steel.

Australian Grand Designs on again nightly. repeats of a series i didn't see at the time.

that thing where they are surveying the plot and the date pops up on screen and it's 7 years ago. and they're still talking about being in before christmas...

(two married bishops, ren fair fans, medieval timber frame building, on a slope, and he's insisting on sanding all the beams himself)

add to that a 5m stained glass window

new series (which'll probably be the usual 4 new buildings and then 'revised repeats')

digging down 6m next to an ancient graveyard, what could possibly go wrong?

at least they're not building on top of it.

has he not watched Poltergeist?

(i'm only 15 minutes in but i can see where this is going)

I hate him

second episode quite impressive

but this series is being hit by covid. they are digging, they are digging, [covid happens], final distanced reveal. they seem to be skipping a lot of the middle of the process.

third episode looks like they are building something very similar to the temporary theatres that went up in w12 - mansard roof, steel skeleton, sips panels.

Is this the guy who was moving his kids, new mrs, new kid, old parent, old ste parent all in?

I quite liked the way it turned out tbh

episode 3, yes

the theatre i was talking about. the making-of video shows the shape better, and not just the square facade.

https://www.troubadourtheatres.com/news/building-troubadour-white-city-theatre

These two deserve each other

This fella really thinks hes a visionary, back-of-fagbox designing hus version of things that have already been commercially available for ages

Genuinely seems like he's not quite there.

Tragic for her she had to get a job filling wrinkles to afford cushions

Right im banning this programme from the house

a caption saying "May 2017", nevr a good sign.

'we'll be in by next christmas...', yeah, right.

was the earth ship he visited a previous GD? looked very familiar, especially the tyres.

(i also think i remember his dad on tomorrow's world)

This is possibly the worst episode I’ve ever seen. I kinda wanna break things because I’ve seen it.

Fuck im glad we left the music on and the tv off so because every episode is that for me

i always absolutely despise the folk in this show. can't bring myself to watch it again, blood-pressure-ruiner.

they saved the mill by ruining the mill. not that you can live in a mill but...

Cool couple mill baby

Love this bothy

i liked the triangular thing from last week, built on an odd plot between a railway line and a main road and bisected by a sewer.

bothy: deems nuts (about it)

Oh dearie me no

Xp yeah that was also a delight

The show is so much better when the problem/constraints are real and not just idiot ambition

big pavilion was nice but I'm sure there was a way of having fewer than 3 spare bedrooms and keeping the favourite tree of the guy who almost single handedly built it for you

Only half watching but this fella is a dolt

Love the result mind

Do you feel the pressure, Fernando

kevin's jeggings

Hes a gangster kevin you can say it

Has it been worth watching recently? I think I hit a point, a few years back, where everyone seemed to be a million quid short and could always find it ... and I stopped caring.

(TBF, I might just have seen one shit episode that put me off for a bit).

I definitely hit that wall, covid era has meant things get at least that interesting again

Def true that the actual designs and builds became less and less interesting or the central focus years ago which made it a far worse show imo

A few of the recent ones definitely had more interesting, challenging builds with very good stuff in them (and quite likeable people) tbf

i think at this point i prefer the Australian and New Zealand ones, they seem more varied. or the various George Clark budget versions.

(also My Floating Home)

5 minutes into yesterday's and the guy seems like a cock

No double entendre but he grew on me

yeah.

nice enough house but fuck a pointless cantilever.

tinie tempah doing a good job on Extraordinary Extensions despite the odd premise - he seems to know his stuff and is affable. quite fetching pink titles too.

Rotten pick for house of the year

watched this last night and, yeah, the winner seemed to be really nothing special.

liked the one in the scottish highlands, or would've if they'd've just left it as the one long part and not added the two other wings.
(wasn't that featured on the short lived show about prefabs that ch4 did, with the presenter who died before the series was finished?)

is this the same one? tamar
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/impossible-builds/on-demand/64660-001

vs assynt:
https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-house-of-the-year/2021/house-in-assynt

It was on at least one other show but im going to haev to check re the specifics

new series tonight.

(australian series on thursday as well, a contiuation of the fashion of more4 showing aus versions of all the english favourites: big brother, bake off, married at first sight, lego challenge...)

watching this now. 5 minutes in: "it'll be a nightmare if it costs that much"...

30 minutes in and the Latvian constructors have taken the money and run.