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Grand Designs
Grand Designs is a British television series produced by Boundless and broadcast on Channel 4 which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.
The programme has been presented by Kevin McCloud since it first aired in April 1999, and 198 episodes have been broadcast in nineteen series.
Format.
Episodes generally follow a regular format, with small variations depending on the progress of the build. At the beginning of an episode, McCloud meets the clients embarking on the project; he visits the site with them,
renovated State Opera) and the Burgtheater. Holzmeister's stage designs always respected the requirements of stage productions but never concealed the architectonic background of their creator.
He is buried in St. Peter's Cemetery in Salzburg.
Honours and awards.
- Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture (June, 1953)
- Honorary Ring of Vienna (1955)
- Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1957)
- Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (1981)