Autumn 2026 | Grand Designs

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Grand Designs 2024

St Minver

Bryony and Matt build their perfect North Cornish family beach house, complete with surfboard room and a state of the art laundry delivery system. With two young children and Matt working two days a week in London, the pressure is on

East Edinburgh

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In the East of Edinburgh, artists Jana and Rory want to replace an old driving test centre with a sleek contemporary slipped box house with upside down living to capture a view of the sea.

Kentish Town

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Architect Peter and TV Producer wife Emily try to build twin ‘Cloud Houses’, three-storey structures covered in arches, painted strawberry ice-cream pink and complete with turquoise-rimmed windows and matching metalwork. But things don’t go to plan.

North West London

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Thirty-two-year-old architect Seb has the rare opportunity to build his own house on a site he knows well - his grandparents’ back garden. No ordinary building, his ambitious design will challenge many of the conventions of traditional construction.

Huddersfield Revisited

Bletchley Revisited

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In 1999 Chris and Gill converted a 19th-century wool mill near Huddersfield, restoring the building’s historic exterior but creating a super high-tech minimalist interior. Twenty-five years on Kevin returns to find out how life in the house has been.

In 2017 Andrew and Margretta started building a radical self-heating home, storing the warmth of the summer sun into earth banks around the house. 6 years since his last visit, Kevin returns to see if this ground breaking experiment has succeeded.

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