miércoles, 19 de octubre de 2011

Eden Project

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

In the final film in our series celebrating Britain's best buildings, gardening columnist 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

People's favourite building in Britain


Durham Cathedral: Readers' choice for Britain's best building - video

In September, we asked you to vote for the building you thought should be included in our Britain's best buildings series, and you chose Durham Cathedral. We were as good as our word – so, concluding our series celebrating the best of UK architecture, design critic Jonathan Glancey explores this astonishing building's history and looks at what it tells us about architecture today

Booming business


Amnesty TV: Booming business - video

In this excerpt from Episode 03 of Amnesty TV, the lid is lifted on high-street banks indirectly funding supposedly illegal cluster bombs, or 'bombs within bombs'.

Figures show that between a quarter and a third of casualties are children. Chris Atkins visits Laos to talk to 'Buffalo Bob', head of MAG, which has a de-mining programme. He still bares the scars of his near-death brush with a 'bomb-let' as a child

You can watch the full episode at Amnestytv.co.uk

Death penalty

Amnesty TV: Peter Hitchens and the death penalty - video

Rightwing columnist Peter Hitchens insists 'nothing deters killers like the death penalty'. In this clip from Amnesty TV, his reasoning is explored with the aid of animated characters. Plus: compare and contrast water supplies in Israel and the Palestinian territories

Dictators