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Airdate: Grand Designs House Of The Year

Kevin McCloud, Zac Monro and Michelle Ogundehi, are on the hunt to find the Royal Institute of British Architects best home.

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ABC premieres 2015 series Grand Designs House Of The Year, a 4 part series presented by Kevin McCloud with guest reporters Zac Monro and Michelle Ogundehi, on the hunt to find the Royal Institute of British Architects best home.

Every year the Royal Institute of British Architects holds a competition to find the best new home in Britain and this time, Grand Designs is along for the ride. Presented by Kevin McCloud and guest reporters Zac Monro and Michelle Ogundehin, this four-part series explores some of Britain’s most contemporary and cutting edge homes, all of them nominees for the prestigious RIBA House of the Year Award 2015.

Kevin and the team meet the owners and architects who built them, reveal how these exemplary houses were constructed and uncover the secrets of designing and building a truly inspirational home. From a house built over a river in Northern Ireland to a remote, renovated mill in Scotland and a bold, wooden shed in the eerie landscape of Dungeness, we take you behind normally closed doors to see some of the best new architecture in the UK. In the final episode Kevin will reveal the overall winner of the RIBA House of the Year.

In this first episode, Kevin McCloud visits five homes built for country living. Enormously varied in size and style, they include a house disguised as a giant shard of flint; a beautifully crafted timber farmhouse in Somerset; a low budget home made of shipping containers in Northern Ireland; an elegant eco house in Cambridgeshire designed for a passionate birdwatcher, and a stunning modern glass villa with a spectacular jagged roof designed to look like mountain peaks.

Sunday 9 October 7.40pm on ABC.

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