Grand Designs at 25: Game-changing designs from the iconic series

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 Lonsdale Foreword by Daisy Goodwin 1999 Water Tower Conversion - Amersham Straw Bale House - Islington Hedgehog Co-op - Brighton 2001 Cruciform - Lambourn Barn Conversion - South Devon 2003 Rustic - Sussex Waterworks - Chesterfield 2004 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 - Leominster 2019 Watershed - Hull Lighthouse - North Devon 2021 Pond House - Chichester Self-heating House - Bletchley Triangle 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 Mentions 2003: Threshing Barn -Surrey 2004: German Kit House - Esher 2005: Modernisation of Elizabethan Farmhouse -Gloucester 2006: Farmhouse Chalet Renovation - Les Gets, France 2007: Gentrified Fourteenth-century Peel Tower -Yorkshire 2008: Contemporary Family House - Bath 2009: Twenty-first-century Farmhouse -Marlborough 2010: Modest Contemporary Home -Woodbridge 2011: Hole in theWall -Kensington 2012: Camden Workshop -Camden 2013: Cob House -East Devon 2014: Cliff Top House -North Wales 2015: Cow Shed - South Somerset 2016: Woodland House - Essex 2017: Box House - East London 2018: Twins Houses - Sheffield 2019: Round House -Lincolnshire 2021: Cemetery Lodge - South West London 2021: Barn Conversion - Sevenoaks 2022: Modular House - Tunbridge Wells 2023: Tree House - Scunthorpe Afterword by Ned Williams Episode List Acknowledgements Index Picture Credits