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What’s on today: Grand Designs Live Grand Theatre
What’s on today: Grand Designs Live Grand Theatre (Sun 2nd May, 2011)
MEET TV’s GRAND DESIGNERS
11.00 – 11.45
Lincoln Miles and Lisa Traxler, the Isle of Wight Grand Designers who built a timber-clad bungalow in the recent series, share the trials and tribulations of their build with George Clarke.
SPEAKER: Lincoln Miles and Lisa Traxler, Grand Designers
Chair: George Clarke, TV architect
EAT ECO, DESIGN ECO
12.00 – 12.45
‘Green chef' Arthur Potts Dawson and his architect Andrew Waugh discuss the challenges and delights of making Arthur's two restaurants - Acorn House and Water House - live up to his demanding green standards.
SPEAKERS: Arthur Potts Dawson, chef; Andrew Waugh, Waugh Thistleton
Chair: Aidan Walker
THE big debate - GRAND URBAN DESIGNS - CITIES OF THE FUTURE 13.00 – 14.00
George Clarke, himself an urban designer, gathers an impressive collection of architects and visionaries to discuss the way the design of our cities will evolve. Do we, for example, really need all our buildings to grow food?
SPEAKERS: Sir Terry Farrell, Farrell and Partners; Steve Smith, Urban Narrative; Blanche Cameron, RESET Development and Graduate School of the Environment, CAT
Chair: George Clarke, TV architect
WOODWORKS
14.30 – 15.15
Not that it ever went away, but tried and trusted timber is being used as a building material in a huge variety of forms and functions. From green oak to engineered timber panels, we explore the possibilities with architect Andrew Waugh.
SPEAKERS: Andrew Waugh, Waugh Thistleton; Bill Bradley, Talisman Manufacturing, cabinetmaker and Grand Designer; Cameron Scott, Timber Design
Chair: Aidan Walker, Grand Designs Live Grand Theatre Programme Producer
BUILDING DOWN - GEORGE CLARKE'S BASEMENT DIARIES
16.00 - 16.45
It's not easy and it's not cheap - but you can almost double the size of your home by digging out under it. George talks us through the transformation of his own Edwardian house and takes us downstairs to his newly created ‘third space'.
SPEAKERS: George Clarke, TV architect
Chair: Aidan Walker, Grand Designs Live Grand Theatre Programme Producer
Posted: 02 May 2011