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Dreamspaces was a short lived BBC Three documentary series that I fell in love with a few years back, and like every short lived show, it managed to break my heart. I loosely compare it to Top Gear because for someone not that into architecture it had me enthralled in a way I didn’t think a show about buildings (or cars) could, and because of the brilliant production and beautifully shot stories.
Presented by David Adjaye, Justine Frischmann and Charlie Luxton it was part architecture geek out, part travel show, and always showed the emotional connections we have to our surroundings. To this day I still have high on my list of travel destinations places that were visited by the Dreamspaces team, and no segment from the show changed my thinking more then Justine Frischmann’s look at Brazil’s planned capital; Brasilia.
As a long time resident of a planned city myself, I have this show to thank for my heightened appreciation of the design in which I live, and its a credit to the quality of the show (from its opening sequence in the first video, to the story on Brasilia in the second) that the places presented on it have stayed with me as long as they have.
UPDATE: FULL EPISODE DOWNLOADS.
The show is yet to recieve a DVD release, however I have managed to track down 10 of the 12 episodes produced in the series and made them available for download below. Episode one is fairly ordinary quality, but the rest are quite respectable.
Episode One: Download (148mb)
- Manhatten, where the shops are cooler than the clothers
- The buildings of Puerto Rico
- Libraries with a novel approach
- Dave Gorman goes off the rails at Canary Whart
Episode Two: Download (188mb)
- City centre living you can actually afford
- Inside the building taste forgot
- Britains new bridges, Get over them!
- Mrs Doyle on why Ireland’s National Gallery is her cup of tea
Episode Three: Download (194mb)
- Get into the groove with the 80’s revival
- Why art deco makes Miami nice
- The fall & rise of the highrise
- Jaime Theakston goes batty for Lords
Episode Four: Download (206mb)
- Antwerp, The hippest city you’ve never visited
- Pull up to the bunker, Baby!
- Parks designed for big kids
- Natalie cases the joint at Lloyds of London
Episode Five: Download (173mb)
- Clear the decks for the DJ bar
- Architecture by the boys of Brasila
- Berlin’s embassies take our breath away
- Lock Stock’s Nick Moran on one smoking tower
Episode Six: Download (175mb)
- Helsinki puts the ‘in’ into Finland
- The future for London’s last power stations
- Offices so cool, they make you want to go to work
- Mark Radcliffe on why the Lowery is better than Lard
Episode Seven: Download (203mb)
- Stand up for the new Mexican Wave
- Why buildings don’t look like buildings anymore
- The leading man in Hollywood houses
- The place that rocks Seb Fontaine’s box
Episode Nine: Download (228mb)
- New department stores, never knowingly under designed
- On a Moroccan roll in Casablanca
- Will Britians new parliments get your vote?
- Dawson’s Sheek, Pacey’s favourite placey
Episode Ten: Download (237mb)
- Fear & Loathing in Vegas casinos
- Meet the beatles of architecture
- Why Valencia is the new Barcelona
- Smack the pony, Hit the bar with Doon Mackichan
Episode Eleven: Download (218mb)
- Putting the ‘In’ into Innsbruck
- Buildings in camouflage, So this season!
- Members only, The ace of clubs
- Paul Kay gets a kick from Highbury Stadium
All videos are encoded in iPod friendly H264, and will also play on your Mac or PC in either Quicktime or VLC. The quality varies between files, which is why some episodes are larger than others.
So glad to hear of someone else who loved that series… I miss it!
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I don’t remember that show, however I wished I had watched it now. That Brasilia segment was very good.
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I’d forgotten about this show – I used to love it
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Thanks for this! I loved the series when it showed on BBC World. It’s what the BBC was all about, for me.
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such a great concept for a show. so well executed love it.
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Wasn’t this one of the first new series on BBC3? I seem to remember it being included in the previews during BBC Choice. Never seen it but it looks great.
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I used to watch this show on BBC World and it was something different. It’s a shame that shows like this don’t get made anymore. Come on BBC, bring it back.
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Love the dynamic nature of the report…
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I’ve been looking for Dreamspaces on DVD, Ebay, and on the torrent sites with no luck. I’m surprised that it’s not available considering all the attention Adjaye has been receiving in the press. I would love to get a copy of this and another series called Rock School with Herbie Hancock. I wish all of the BBC shows were available on DVD.
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Thank you sooo much for this. I have looked far and wide for information on this much-loved series. Why it’s not available is beyond me. All I (we) can do is hope and wait.
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Does anyone know the artist who was in the opening theme/ident or was it just made for the show? Help please.
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Is it possible to have more videos uploaded from this show???
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The artist for the opening theme was a remixed version of “Everyones a loser” by I Monster
If anyone has access to TheBox.bz torrent site there are 9 episodes about to be uploaded including the Brasilia one
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Does anyone have the bit where Adjaye talks to Niemeyer ?
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Listened to “everyone’s a loser” by i monster, doesn’t seem close to the opening theme soundtrack, any clue on who might the artist be? btw, loved the show
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Favio Reply:
November 29th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Hey! I don’t know who the opening theme might be of, but some tracks used in the series belong to Bebel from the disc Tanto Tempo
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Excellent show!!! Very detailed in every aspect…
Looking for the “Clubbed to Death” episode…can anybody upload it?
Thanks
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More please!…. I like Grand Designs with Kevin McCloud on ABC1, but this is much more current and very slick.
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Hi, my name is Boyan. I am a huge fan of your show. Please i wish to get all your episodes on high quality,,, please tell me how can i get them?
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Hey John,
GREAT JOB on uploading the Dreamspaces episodes. Thank you soooo much!!!! You have done me an amazing favour!!!! I am sooo grateful. It’s so refreshing that are people who love Dreamspaces so much. I plan to burn these episodes for the archives!!!!
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I last checked and you only had one episode, and I said to myself, I’ll grab it at work. Now I have ten to download. Kudos! A much-missed program.
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excellent work john!
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Just a random bit of information: this show had two series, one in 2003 (the first six episodes) and another the next year (the last six episodes). Just something for the obsessive-compulsive like me. Hee.
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Thanks so much for uploading these! I’ve never heard of this show before but am really looking forward to seeing it
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Thank you so much for uploading these. When this show stopped airing I felt raped culturally.
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THANK YOU ! THANK YOU !! THANK YOU !!!
Really appretiate your upload!!!
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Great series. Many thanks for uphosting.
Wishing you luck with finding Episode 8.
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you have no idea how thankful i am that you have the episodes available for download. would you know when the dvd version is going to be released?
thanks again!!!
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thanks for the videos. hope you’d be able to collect all the episodes. love this show
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Oh Thanks! Though, do you have the episode 8? That one with the Adjaye’s Fukuoka traveling was the particular one that I wanted to find… but it seems that you don’t have it here… Such an irony! but thanks for all the other precious episodes. (if you have episode 8, please e-mail me…! Thanks)
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Neil Reply:
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Hi, I’ve uploaded the missing 2 episodes of Dreamspaces to thebox.bz
These include the Fukuoka episode that Jinho is looking for
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I’m so thrilled to see this show again! It’s my all time favorite on BBC. It doesn’t only tackle anything architecture, but the way they deliver the show is an art by itself.
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Neil: I can´t seem to create an account at thebox.bz
Can´t imagine why…Could you upload the missing episodes here?
Thanks buddy
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Great show, shame about the female presenter though, I find her to be a little contrived. David Adjaye is one of my favourite architects, and a real inspiration.
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Thank you very much for making these videos available for download. Dreamspaces was the best program on BBC, followed by TopGear. I am really sad that DreamSpaces is no longer on the air though.
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thank you very very much for you …
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Here’s something I bet you didn’t know. In the opening theme of the show the tunnel the trio (Justine, Charlie and David) are in is the entry tunnel from the Bank Station side of the Waterloo and City Underground Line in London. The flourescent lights on either side of the tunnel are a dead giveaway.
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Neil,
I’m with Santiago on this, I can’t access the other two episodes via thebox.bz please load them here if you can. Thank you so much for loading them, architecture via video is hard to come by at my library. I’ve also been looking for the series in the mind of the architect from abc in australia anyone have any suggestions?
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