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'Like a childhood fantasy come to life': Three RIBA award-winning Dorset treehouses for sale for £2m

Carpenter Guy Mallinson indulged a long-held dream in building the Woodsman’s Treehouse in 2016, plus Dazzle and Pinwheel during the pandemic. Now, all three are for sale

Evening Standard

Why Grand Designs-style eco-homes aren’t a good blueprint for sustainable living

A family builds an off-grid home in rural Wales. TV celebrates it as a blueprint for net-zero living. But what if this vision of sustainability simply doesn’t scale up?

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Grand Designs: Tiny island house and feat of 'engineering gymnastics' shortlisted for House of the Year

The first two homes on this year’s RIBA House of the Year shortlist have been revealed on Grand Designs

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Grand Designs house for sale: New Forest haiku house from 2004 series on market for £2.95m

The house first appeared on Grand Designs in 2004 when Lizzie and Michael took their project to build a Japanese-style haiku house — with vineyard — to Kevin McCloud

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Controversial Grand Designs project compared to a ‘prison’ by angry locals

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Grand Designs ‘castle’ sparks local fury after going on the market for nearly £8m

Largest-ever build to appear on programme has locals reaching for their pitchforks

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Famous Grand Designs home finally sells after 10 years

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Grand Designs ‘saddest ever property’ finally sells after a decade of turmoil

Chesil Cliff House destroyed owner’s marriage and left him millions of pounds in debt

The Independent UK

New series of Grand Designs: House of the Year announced

The final episode will see the winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) House of the Year unveiled.

Evening Standard

Kevin McCloud: ‘I never get enraged, though inside I might be seething’

INTERVIEW: As he gears up for the annual Grand Designs Live event, the Channel 4 stalwart speaks to Adam White about Margaret Thatcher, Rachel Reeves and Britain’s ‘shameful and appalling’ housing standards, his eagerness to keep his private life private, and how he wishes people didn’t fancy him

The Independent UK

Gossip, gowns and Agas: could Ladies of the Cotswolds be reality TV’s next big thing?

Grand Designs team to make show set in wealthy English countryside that promises to be part glittering social whirl and part bloodbath

The Guardian - UK

Away with Anthony Burke: ‘We did yoga twice a day and listened to the monkeys and elephants at night’

In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about travel, the Grand Designs Australia host reveals why he always packs a sketchbook, and welcomes things ‘not working out’

The Guardian - AU

“Grand Designs is inspiring – it highlights the human spirit”: Alter Bridge singer and certified Anglophile Myles Kennedy names his favourite British TV shows

You know about Myles Kennedy’s work with Alter Bridge and Slash. You probably don’t know about his love for quaint UK TV programmes, though.

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The most unusual property sales of 2024 — from a lighthouse to a nuclear bunker

There were no shortage of wacky properties to hit the market this year, including nuclear bunkers, a studio with a cell and a replica of the HMS Endeavour

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Grand Designs episode branded ‘best ever’ as viewers ‘left in tears’ over disabled young mother’s dream home

‘We’ve created something beautiful in the eye of the storm,’ said Kara, who now has her dream home

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How to watch Grand Designs Australia online: stream season 11 for free

Here's how you can watch Grand Designs Australia season 11 online, ready for its debut on Thursday, October 10, 2024.

Evening Standard

Kevin McCloud: 'The whole house-building market, and model, is broken.'

The living legend takes on the housing system as Grand Designs Live celebrates 25 years...

The Guardian - AU

‘Our houses are too big’: Grand Designs’ Anthony Burke on the best and worst of Australian architecture

The architecture professor on homes with more bathrooms than occupants – and how the Sydney metro might renew confidence in the benefits of good design

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The Independent UK

Couple’s ‘miracle’ Grand Design renovation leaves Kevin McCloud speechless

The presenter said he couldn’t have pulled it off himself

The Independent UK

Kevin McCloud reveals how AI will affect the Grand Designs of the future

Exclusive: ‘It going to be so much easier’

The Independent UK

‘Painful’ Grand Designs home with four years of plans leaves viewers in disbelief

The owner admits the build, which featured seemingly levitating floors, was ‘more complex’ than anticipated

Evening Standard

Grand Designs: 'I put my life on hold to convert a derelict water tank into a £1.4 million dream home'

Rob Hunt endured living in a mobile home and a broken leg while working on this unique project featured on the next series of Grand Designs

The Independent UK

Grand Designs’ best, worst and downright disastrous builds as the show celebrates 25th anniversary

The show first aired in 1999

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Grand Designs: 25 Years And Counting — release date, trailer, interview and everything we know

Grand Designs: 25 Years And Counting will revisit some of the most memorable builds - the fabulous, the outlandish and the disasters!

The Guardian - UK

Grand Designs: 25 Years & Counting – people enduring hell for a slightly nicer house? It’s TV made in heaven

Give us another 50 years of this strangely moving, often harebrained show. After watching this celebratory episode, it’s hard not to love Kevin McCloud’s series seven times more than you already do

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