architectural videos: Dreamspaces: a documentary series on contemporary Architecture and design by BBC3

video topic: Architecture, Design
entry type: Documentary
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video title: Dreamspaces
video series: Dreamspaces
architect featured: mixed
director:
Presenter: David Adjaye, Justine Frischmann, Charlie Luxton

producer: BBCepisodes: 12
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size: 350 mb each
release date: 2003-2004

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http://www.docs4you.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=12530&hl=architecture
http://www.ovguide.com/tv/dreamspaces.htm
http://idents.tv/blog/2007/10/01/dreamspaces-the-top-gear-of-architecture/

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Dreamspaces was a BBC documentary TV series about architecture and interior design. The series ran for two seasons and had twelve episodes total. The show was broadcast on BBC Three from 2003 to 2004.

Dreamspaces was a high concept architecture and design series that ran to two series of six episodes on BBC3. Presenters David Adjaye, Charlie Luxton and Justine Frischmann (ex lead singer of Elastica) attempted - and largely succeeded - to make architecture and design sexy, helped by stylish subject matter and a contemporary soundtrack. Guest presenters added cameos of their own favourite buildings.

quote from idents.tv:
Dreamspaces was a short lived BBC Three documentary series that I fell in love with a few years back, and like every short lived show, it managed to break my heart. I loosely compare it to Top Gear because for someone not that into architecture it had me enthralled in a way I didn’t think a show about buildings (or cars) could, and because of the brilliant production and beautifully shot stories.

Presented by David Adjaye, Justine Frischmann and Charlie Luxton it was part architecture geek out, part travel show, and always showed the emotional connections we have to our surroundings. To this day I still have high on my list of travel destinations places that were visited by the Dreamspaces team, and no segment from the show changed my thinking more then Justine Frischmann’s look at Brazil’s planned capital; Brasilia.

As a long time resident of a planned city myself, I have this show to thank for my heightened appreciation of the design in which I live, and its a credit to the quality of the show (from its opening sequence in the first video, to the story on Brasilia in the second) that the places presented on it have stayed with me as long as they have.

episodes:
season 1:

Episode	Segments	Presented by
1	Bag It Up	Charlie Luxton
	Destination: Puerto Rico	Justine Frischmann
	Pocket Guide: Mies van der Rohe	Charlie Luxton
	Well Overdue	David Adjaye
	Dreamspace: Dave Gorman	Dave Gorman
2	Urban Choice	Charlie Luxton
	Destination: Bucharest	David Adjaye
	Pocket Guide: Arne Jacobsen	Charlie Luxton
	A River Runs through It	Justine Frischmann
	Dreamspace: Pauline McLynn	Pauline McLynn
3	Tainted Love	Justine Frischmann
	Destination: Miami	Charlie Luxton
	Pocket Guide: Walter Gropius	Charlie Luxton
	All Rise	David Adjaye
	Dreamspace: Jamie Theakston	Jamie Theakston
4	Destination: Antwerp	David Adjaye
	Nuclear Families	Justine Frischmann
	Pocket Guide: Denys Lasdun	Charlie Luxton
	Park Life	Charlie Luxton
	Dreamspace: Natalie Casey	Natalie Casey
5	Clubbed to Death	David Adjaye
	Destination: Brasilia	Justine Frischmann
	Pocket Guide: James Stirling	Charlie Luxton
	The Ambassador's Reception	Charlie Luxton
	Dreamspace: Nick Moran	Nick Moran
6	Destination: Helsinki	Charlie Luxton
	Power Trip	David Adjaye
	Pocket Guide: le Corbusier	Charlie Luxton
	Watercooler Challenge	Justine Frischmann
	Dreamspace: Mark Radcliffe	Mark Radcliffe

episode 2:

Episode	Segments	Presented by
7	Stand up for the new Mexican Wave
	Why buildings don’t look like buildings anymore
	The leading man in Hollywood houses
	The place that rocks Seb Fontaine’s box

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9	New department stores, never knowingly under designed
	On a Moroccan roll in Casablanca
	Will Britians new parliments get your vote?
	Dawson’s Sheek, Pacey’s favourite placey

10	Fear & Loathing in Vegas casinos
	Meet the beatles of architecture
	Why Valencia is the new Barcelona
	Smack the pony, Hit the bar with Doon Mackichan

11	Putting the ‘In’ into Innsbruck
	Buildings in camouflage, So this season!
	Members only, The ace of clubs
	Paul Kay gets a kick from Highbury Stadium

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About the Presenters

David Adjaye

David Adjaye is a graduate of the Royal College of Art. Having started a small practice in 1994, he soon built a reputation in reconstructing cafes, bars and private homes for high profile clients including Chris Ofili, Ewan McGregor and Alexander McQueen. His practice Adjaye/Associates has designed two 'Idea Store' libraries in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and the Bernie Grant Centre in Tottenham, along with a range of other commissions.
Justine Frischmann

Justine Frischmann was half way through an architecture course at the University of London when she met Brett Anderson, dropped out of her course and joined Suede. She then went on to lead the moderately successful band Elastica. She was once one of the judges for the Royal Institute of British Architecture's Stirling Prize.
Charlie Luxton

Charlie Luxton was born in Sydney, Australia, but has lived in England since 1983 and has an MA in Architecture from Oxford Brookes University. He was the creative director of Make Communications, a company producing architecture, events and television. In November 2003 Make opened a new "urban experience" on London's South Bank involving giant wind turbines. In 2004 he presented a series Guerilla Homes. As well as presenting on BBC Three, Charlie has been seen on BBC Four, Channel 4 and Five.

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the episodes can be viewed online from many sources. some are not available in certain countries. click link1 for ficnding different links showing dreamspaces and try different sources for full episodes from your country. click the second link for some selected short clips from the show

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