Don't Look Down

Design expert Kevin McCloud secures breathtaking vantage points from which to view impressive feats of architecture as he scales some of Britain's highest structures.

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Documentary
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First Aired on

May 18, 2000

1 seaons till Jun 22, 2000

Popularity: 5.682
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(GB)
Production

Talkback (GB)

Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: The Anglican Cathedral

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 6 episodes

Miniseries

Aired

6 Episodes
  • Episode 1The Forth Bridge30 min

    McCloud challenges his fear of heights with an ascent of the 340ft Forth railway bridge.

  • Episode 2Salisbury Cathedral30 min

    McCloud tackles the walls and then the spire of the oldest building in the series: the medieval Salisbury Cathedral.

  • Episode 3Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope30 min

    Kevin McCloud tackles the Jodrell Bank radio telescope as the designer and architectural journalist continues to scale some of Britain's highest structures. The ascent in Cheshire includes his worst moment so far - a perilous trip across a 1ft girder above a 200ft drop - before he climbs into the famous dish on top of the structure.

  • Episode 4The Lloyds Building30 min

    Kevin McCloud scales one of the City of London's stand-out architectural icons, Richard Rogers 's Lloyds Building, and gauges employees' opinions of the edifice. He also looks into the various structures that have housed the ! institution overthe years and charts the course of Rogers's project, which reached its culmination in 1978.

  • Episode 5Erno Goldfinger's Trellick Tower30 min

    Kevin McCloud ascends the tallest council block in Europe, Trellick Tower in London's Notting Hill. He chronicles the 322ft structure's fortunes, from architect Erno Goldfinger 's original sixties vision of "streets in the sky", through its rock-bottom reputation in the eighties as a vertical slum plagued by drug abuse and crime, to its current English Heritage Grade II Listed status. With the help of long-term occupants and members of the residents' association, he discovers what has caused these radical changes.

Crew & Team

Orla Doherty

Producer

Nicola Moody

Executive Producer

Peter Fincham

Executive Producer

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