Building Sights — Season 1, Episode 4: Byker Wall
Documentary • 30 min • 4 seasons, 37 episodes
Episode synopsis
Writer Beatrix Campbell visits the successful Byker housing estate in Newcastle, designed by Ralph Erskine in the early 1970s. It's an epic development - both monumental and modest, and Beatrix Campbell describes why it is such an ingenious design solution.
About Building Sights
Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture.