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Britain's best buildings

A series of Guardian videos celebrating the best in the UK's architecture
  • Durham Cathedral: Readers' choice for Britain's best building - video

    Guardian readers voted Durham Cathedral as their favourite British building. Jonathan Glancey explores its dark history and what it can tell us about architecture today

  • Durham Cathedral

    The votes are in: your favourite British building

    The results of our readers' vote for Britain's best building are in. Did your favourite win?

  • Eden Project: 'More than just architecture, it's about relationships' - video

    Alys Fowler discovers how Cornwall's Eden Project took over a disused clay pit to create and preserve the largest rainforest in captivity. Learning its lessons from nature, the project used sustainable building techniques and was a catalyst for economic regeneration in the region

  • De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea: 'A dash of foreign innovation' - video

  • Manchester town hall: 'A building that understands its place in history' – video

  • Sir John Soane's Museum: 'A crazy labyrinth of art, architecture and history' – video

    In the fourth of our series celebrating the best British architecture, Jonathan Jones gets lost in the Georgian maze that Sir John Soane designed as both a house and a setting for his art collection

  • Castle Howard: 'A stage set for us to strut on' – video

    Jonathan Glancey celebrates one of the most theatrical family homes in England – the baroque Castle Howard in Yorkshire

  • Hampton Court Palace: 'A potent symbol of political intrigue and violence' - video

    In the second of our series of films celebrating the best British buildings, political commentator Michael White retraces the steps of monarchs in Hampton Court Palace

  • The Riverside Museum

    What's your favourite British building?

  • King's College Chapel, Cambridge: 'A gravity-defying hall of light' - video

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