"Building for People" surveys town planning and architecture, tracing the evolution from village greens to modern urban centers. It contrasts chance-driven designs of the Industrial Revolution with today's systematic approach, following a design team as they create community-focused spaces that m...

Architect Dermot Bannon faces a tough challenge in meeting the design brief and budgetary restraints for the Zambra family who are building an extension in Castleknock.

So far in the series we have seen the ground floors of two homes completely redesigned. This is the first programme with a bui...

Dermot is in Timahoe, Portlaoise with Dolores and Donal O'Connell. Their five children are all grown-up but still live in the area. Dolores loves having them all home regularly for big family get-togethers. However, their children now have partners and there's five grandchildren so when everyone ...

Sally-Ann, her husband Trevor, and their four children live in Sally-Ann’s childhood home – a huge, distinctive 1970s architect-designed home outside Mullingar in Westmeath that they’ve dreamed of renovating for years.

With his clients in full control of the self build, architect Dermot Bannon f...

Go deeper into the architectural world of biophilic design with these extras from Outside In.

A family who rises to the challenge of self-construction.

Thierry and Séverine Thouvenot chose that land, high up between forests and mountains, to ecologically renovate an old barn.

House-hunters Ella & Conor want remote-work capable homes; some good fixer-uppers are found in Westmeath and Longford.

Project: Shangri-la Cabin
Location: Coihueco, Chile
Area: 45m2
Architects: Magdalena Besomi & DRAA

8 architects, 8 houses, 8 stories, 8 paradigms of contemporary living. The diary of an exploration into the houses and private spaces of 8 protagonists of world architecture: Shigeru Ban, Mario Bellini, David Chipperfield, Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Marcio Kogan, Daniel Libeskin...

The film deals with the sediments of the 20th century. Bickels’ buildings are the heart of an idea, an interaction, social and cultural. His architecture reflects a will to create a civilization.

22 buildings by the Kibbutz architect Samuel Bickels, filmed in Israel in 2015. As prologue, the Cas...