Grand Designs: House of the Year

Every year the Royal Institute of British Architects looks for the best new home in Britain, and this time Grand Designs is along for the ride

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   4. The Final

   Finale 10 years ago

   Kevin visits a timber and steel home in Dungeness, a pink brick house in Belfast and a mill in Scotland, before revealing the overall winner of the House of the Year 2015 award

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   3. House of the Year

   10 years ago

   Kevin visits a luxurious city home, a glamorous Hollywood pad and a picture perfect, white modernist villa in north Wales

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   2. House of the Year

   11 years ago

   Kevin McCloud explores another set of inspiring homes for the House of the Year Award, including one that's clad in bright orange metal and a spectacular hidden home

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   1. Country Living

   11 years ago

   Kevin McCloud visits five homes built for country living, from a farmhouse in Somerset to a stunning modern glass villa with a spectacular jagged roof

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   4. The Winner

   Finale 9 years ago

   Kevin McCloud reveals the winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects House of the Year 2016. First though, there are four extraordinary nominated houses to review, all of which offer a creative response to a tricky site. There is a house stitched into a wall that sits between a Zen courtyard and an English walled garden; a clever, open plan family home built in a former allotment; a house made from a group of red tin pods on a piece of urban wasteland; and a large, glamorous home in Northumberland that creatively pulls northern light through the house.

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   3. Space Makers

   9 years ago

   Kevin McCloud reveals another five homes vying to be crowned House of the Year 2016. These are houses that create space out of the smallest sites. There's an ultra-stylish one bedroom live/work space with an experimental garden roof; the transformation of a dark mews into a light and airy family home; a beautiful blend of beach living and high architecture in Dungeness; a clever extension in Harrogate; and a narrow beachfront garage that's been made over into a stunning home packed with a large art collection.

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   2. Boundary Pushers

   9 years ago

   Kevin, Zac and Damion profile five homes that are testbeds for architectural ideas, pushing the boundaries for residential design: a cool, concealed house built from glass and concrete; an uber-creative Wallace and Gromit-style house in Edinburgh squeezed onto a disused plot; a gorgeous, low-slung modern home in Cumbria camouflaged with stone; an experimental extension in London with a Japanese flavour; and an elegant house in Buckinghamshire that combines sustainability with glamour. Kevin then reveals which one has made it onto the shortlist and is in with a chance of winning House of the Year 2016.

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   1. Country Homes

   9 years ago

   In this first episode, Kevin and co profile five amazing country homes on the long-list for the prize: including a large house camouflaged within a hill; a loving restoration in Wiltshire of a prototype modernist retreat; a Scottish home that blends an agricultural exterior with a sleek modern interior; and a slice of spectacular California modernism in Cornwall. Kevin then reveals which of these homes will make it onto the final shortlist.

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   4. The Minimalists and the Winner

   Finale 8 years ago

   Kevin McCloud reveals the winner of the most prestigious prize for residential architecture, the Royal Institute of British Architects House of the Year 2017. But first, Kevin, the architect Damion Burrows and magazine editor Michelle Ogundehin sift the final category from the long list, all of them homes that share a pared-back, minimal look. Properties include a former caretaker's shed in London, and a small but perfectly formed home with oak panelling and sleek polished concrete floors. Last in the series.

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   3. Homes in the Country

   8 years ago

   Kevin McCloud, architect Damion Burrows and magazine editor Michelle Ogundehin review homes in the country. There's a luxurious tree house in Dorset that shows off the wonder of wood, and an awe-inspiring cantilevered concrete home on the Isle of Purbeck, with floor-to-ceiling glazing. Plus, a property with a cluster of zinc-clad boxes imitating local traditional Scottish farmsteads, and a 17th-century Devon barn that's been sensitively restored for modern living. But which will be shortlisted for the Royal Institute of British Architects House of the Year 2017?

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   2. Water

   8 years ago

   Kevin McCloud, Damion Burrows, and Michelle Ogundehin look at five more inspiring homes in the running for the Royal Institute of British Architects House of the Year 2017. This episode considers homes with a watery connection, including a glamorous, white, curvy, cliff top residence with extensive views over the English Channel.

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   1. Local Materials

   9 years ago

   Kevin McCloud visits homes in the running for the 2017 Royal Institute of British Architects House of the Year. He is joined by architect Damion Burrows and Michelle Ogundehin, editor-at-large of Elle Decoration. In this episode, they visit five properties which draw on local materials and traditions, including a 21st-century shepherd's hut in Scotland.

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   4. The Final

   Finale 7 years ago

   Kevin visits homes on the longlist that use materials in interesting ways, before revealing the overall winner of House of the Year 2018

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   3. Extreme Houses

   7 years ago

   Kevin and his fellow judges visit an awe-inspiring set of cantilevered black boxes, a far-flung crofter's cottage, a curvy concrete property, and a wedge house

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   2. Houses with a Past

   7 years ago

   Kevin McCloud, architect Damion Burrows and design expert Michelle Ogundehin visit five more inspiring homes in the running for the 2018 Royal Institute of British Architects House of the Year, including an old Victorian gin distillery in east London transformed into a remarkable modern home, and a turn-of-the-century farmhouse in Devon given new life mixing the traditional with the contemporary. The team also visit a Grade II listed house in Bath, a derelict farmhouse over 400 years old, and a house with a mirrored library at its centre.

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   1. Houses That Dare to Be Different

   8 years ago

   Kevin McCloud visits homes in the running for the 2018 Royal Institute of British Architects House of the Year, including a magnificent monolithic dark-rendered block in London, a controversial, cutting-edge glass modernist building in Henley, and a north London townhouse filled with Nicaraguan mahogany.

Kevin McCloud, Damion Burrows and Michelle Ogundehin visit the incredible homes competing for 2019 RIBA House of the Year

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   4. The Final

   Finale 6 years ago

   Kevin looks at homes which excel in craftsmanship and materials before the overall winner of the grand prize of House of the Year 2019 is revealed.

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   3. Down to Earth

   7 years ago

   The contenders this time include a stylish property in Devon, designed by a master architect, and a sleek, elegant home in Northern Ireland.

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   2. Surroundings

   7 years ago

   A striking stone property in the middle of a nature reserve, a family home tucked away in south London, and a black timber box in Skye are some of the designs on view.

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   1. Experimental

   7 years ago

   Houses featured include a home in Eton made entirely from cork, an innovative Derbyshire stone cottage, and an extraordinary ultra-low-energy house in Buckinghamshire.

Kevin McCloud presents homes in the running for the 2021 Royal Institute of British Architects House of the Year.

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   4. Houses That Reinvent

   Finale 4 years ago

   Kevin McCloud, Damion Burrows and Michelle Ogundehin visit the final five properties, one of which is added to the shortlist, before the winner is announced. This week they focus on houses that reinvent beloved types of building, including a 21st-century reboot of the classic Kentish oast, a low-key eco-home in Devon which turns the idea of the country house on its head and a cool contemporary reimagining of the suburban family house in Surrey

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   3. Problem-Solving Houses

   4 years ago

   Kevin McCloud, Damion Burrows and Michelle Ogundehin visit five properties that solve problems, including a modernist riverside house designed to withstand extreme floods, a modular timber home that elegantly resolves the challenges of building in a remote environment and a house that deploys discreet camouflage to blend into its overlooked setting. The others are a pared-back barn conversion that neatly sidesteps the pitfalls of restoring agricultural buildings and a Japanese-inspired house that proves a standard budget need not be an obstacle to building a bespoke home

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   2. Materials and Craftmanship

   4 years ago

   Kevin McCloud, Damion Burrows and Michelle Ogundehin visit five properties demonstrating exceptional use of materials and craftsmanship. They include a bold contemporary barn, forged from corten steel and concrete, a small urban house squeezed into a plot the size of a London Tube carriage, and a Scandi-Scottish lochside bolthole, hewn from Highland stone and Danish oak. The others are a wooden wonderland extension in east London and a Surrey home with an extraordinary engineered timber roof

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   1. Houses That Take You by Surprise

   4 years ago

   In the first programme, Kevin and his co-presenters, architect Damion Burrows and design expert Michelle Ogundehin, visit five breathtaking houses competing for a place on the shortlist - a 1960s- inspired water tower in rural Norfolk, a 21st-century addition to a Victorian London street, a sleek beach house beside a busy south coast boatyard, a 14th-century fortress in Cumbria with a radically contemporary interior and a Georgian farmhouse with an angular, space-age extension

Kevin McCloud, Damion Burrows, Michelle Ogundehin and Natasha Huq visit the spectacular homes competing for the 2022 RIBA House of the Year

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   4. Meticulously Crafted Houses & the Result

   3 years ago

   Kevin McCloud looks at a meticulously crafted barn conversion and a timber-framed, timber-clad eco home, before the RIBA House of the Year 2022 winner is announced.

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   3. Pioneering Houses

   3 years ago

   In the pioneering houses category, Kevin McCloud and the experts explore a home that fuses mock-Tudor with industrial chic, and a home with a mountain on the roof.

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   2. Incredible House Transformations

   3 years ago

   Kevin McCloud and the experts visit five homes that have undergone incredible transformations, from a factory reborn to a library hidden within a former cowshed.

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   1. Hard-to-Build Houses

   3 years ago

   Kevin McCloud explores the homes in the running to win the RIBA House of the Year award 2022, starting with five hard-to-build houses, including a pink beach house.

The search for the House of the Year 2025 begins, as Kevin McCloud, architect Damion Burrows and conservation architect Natasha Huq take us inside some of the most extraordinary new homes in Britain.

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   4. Incredible Transformations

   Finale 11 months ago

   In the grand finale, Kevin McCloud explores dramatic re-inventions where barns, bungalows and townhouses are radically transformed. But only one can be crowned RIBA House of the Year 2025.

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   3. Materials and Craftsmanship

   11 months ago

   Kevin explores outstanding craftsmanship in projects created in steel, sandstone and timber. A dramatic new sandstone home rises in Bannau Brycheiniog (the Brecon Beacons). Norwich’s medieval brick tradition is reinvented. And an 18th-century Essex barn is brought back to life beam by beam.

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   2. Homes That Take You on Holiday

   11 months ago

   A Kent beach home blends work space with an endless sense of escape. A plot in east London transforms into a sun-filled sanctuary. And a taste of the Caribbean is conjured in suburban Surrey. Kevin McCloud explores houses that channel vacation vibes, from tropical paradises to Japanese tranquillity. But which will be shortlisted?

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   1. Built Against All Odds

   11 months ago

   The search for the House of the Year 2025 begins. Kevin McCloud reveals homes built against the odds, from a cliff-carved retreat and a storm-lashed abode to a collapsing hillside haven.