Win 'The Best of Grand Designs' by Kevin McCloud

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In 25 words or less, Why do you love Kevin McCloud and Grand Designs?


I have entered 17 December as close date as that is when the other new contest finishes, but there are no T&C's available.

Thanks to HarperCollins and The LifeStyle Channel, we have 24 copies of Kevin McCloud's new book 'The Best of Grand Designs' to give away. This beautiful book is a complete celebration of everyone's favourite architectural show.

Grand Designs is broadcast in over 130 countries and regularly gleans 5 million viewers in the UK. Its success, says Kevin, is due to 'good old-fashioned story telling; of joy and sorrow, torment and triumph, expressed tangibly in the making of a building'.

To celebrate 14 glorious years of film-making, 100 editions of Grand Designs Magazine, 100 separate programmes and ten years of hosting the Stirling Prize, Kevin now delves into the archives to highlight his favourite projects. The Best of Grand Designs charts where domestic architecture has come from, and is moving to, in the first decade or so of a new millennium. And it places people at the centre of the stories of these buildings.

Each project is supported by beautiful photography, building plans and Kevin’s own personal analysis, together with commentary from his long-time collaborator, Isabel Allen.

From the off-grid ecological approach of woodsman Ben Law in Sussex to the quirky experimentalism of Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till’s straw bale house in London, Kevin demonstrates how Grand Designs continues to contribute to television history and why it provides an important legacy for good house design.

Best of Grand Designs by Kevin McCloud, in bookstores from 1st November, RRP $45. Published by HarperCollins.

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