Big Design Adventure
Big Design Adventure
Two mates, Tim Ross — comedian, broadcaster, and self-described design nerd — and Kevin McCloud — pundit, writer and celebrated host of Grand Designs — have teamed up for a new podcast: Tim and Kev’s Big Design Adventure. In this audio escapade, the architectural enthusiasts embark on a rollicking (and occasionally shambolic) journey, sharing their love of design by visiting buildings that ins…Social links:
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S2 Ep 9 - Marsala House Iwan Iwanoff
Kevin on the dance floor? The ultimate 1970s party house is on the menu as Tim and Kev hit the Perth suburb of Dianella to visit one of the city’s most talked-about homes. Designed by Bulgarian-born architect Iwan Iwanoff in 1976, the Marsala House is a sculptural, concrete-block Brutalist wonder…
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S2 Ep 8 - The Society Architect
Enter stage left: Neil Clerehan, the Melbourne architect who helped bring modernism to the suburbs - and a handsome, charming raconteur who waltzed his way through Melbourne society. A talented writer, his wit found a regular home in newspapers for much of his life. In this very special conversati…
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S2 Ep 7 - Patty Hopkins
What happens when two young architects build their own home with little money but plenty of ideas? Tim and Kev head to London’s Hampstead to visit Patty Hopkins, one of Britain’s most influential architects and the co-founder of Hopkins Architects, the practice she started with her late husband Mi…
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S2 Ep 6 - The Queenslander
Tim and Kev head to Brisbane to meet architect John Ellway, who has quietly built a reputation for transforming one of Australia’s most iconic house types - the Queenslander. Working almost entirely in his own neighbourhood, John carefully adapts these classic timber-and-tin homes so they can hand…
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S2 Ep 5 - Ben Shewry’s Mid-Century Dream
Tim and Kev head to Melbourne to visit Ben Shewry, the chef behind the world-famous restaurant Attica, who lives in the 1966 home designed by émigré architect Ernest Fooks. Ben, who has a deep passion for architecture and design, had long admired the house from afar, but he never thought he’d actu…
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S2 Ep 4 - House for Birds
Tim and Kev head to the Sydney inner-city suburb of Marrickville to visit artist Leila Jeffreys and musician James Roden, who have spent a decade transforming a modest weatherboard cottage into a small but carefully considered home. Their dream? A small sustainable home that works for them and con…
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S2 Ep3 - A Life in the Museum
Can you imagine living in a museum? Tim and Kev head to Surrey to visit The Homewood, the modernist masterpiece Patrick Gwynne designed for his family in the late 1930s. Completed in 1938, The Homewood is one of the most remarkable examples of pre-war modernist architecture in Britain. Gwynne lat…
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S2 Ep 2 - Giuseppe’s House
What happens when you try to fix the housing crisis without destroying the suburbs we love? You get density by stealth. Tim and Kev head to the Perth suburbia to visit Giuseppe’s House, a 1960s home recently restored by local architect Kate Fitzgerald. Beneath the terrazzo floors and colourful cha…
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S2 Ep 1 - Brutiful Birmingham
We’re back with Series Two! Tim and Kevin head to Birmingham to explore a city defined by industry, reinvention and the home of Peaky Blinders, Black Sabbath and ELO. Over tea and biscuits with journalist and campaigner Mary Keating, they examine the fight to save the Smallbrook Ringway Centre,…
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A Christmas Special
In the special festive episode, can you have a room just reserved for Christmas Day? What’s our hot take on the merits of tinsel, and we present our all time favourite Christmas movies and songs. The model makers who create wooden Christmas ornaments of buildings can be found on Instagram here: A…
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