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- Season 0 2003-03-22
- Season 1 1999-04-29
- Season 2 2001-07-17
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- Season 13 The 1920s Cinema
- Season 13 North London: The miniature Hollywood mansion
- Season 13 York: The Giant Farm Shed
- Season 13 Devon
- Season 13 South Lanarkshire
- Season 13 Monmouthshire: Japanese House
- Season 13 South London: Modernist Masterpiece
- Season 13 East Devon: Cob Castle
- Season 13 Newbury: Christmas Farm
- Season 13 Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
- Season 13 Revisited: Woodbridge: The Modest Home
Grand Designs - Season 13 Episode 10 Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
7.10 45 minutes Kevin catches up with the story of a daring modernist home in the Andalucian hills in southern Spain..
Ten years ago Gil and Hillary Briffa decided to retire to southern Spain. Rejecting the coastal sprawl around Malaga they found a virgin plot of land up in the Andalucian hills for just £35,000.
But instead of building a home like the traditional old fincas nearby, their architect son's design was a confrontational, modernist glass box, surrounded by boldly coloured connected rooms, hidden behind a giant citadel wall.
Construction proved stressful. The couple put all their trust in a local Spanish builder who had never built a house like this before. The local residents didn't like it and the mayor tried to get it re-painted white. But if they could just finish the build, it promised to be the coolest retirement home Kevin McCloud has ever seen.
Sadly, Gil died a few years ago, but now Kevin returns to meet with Hillary again and to see whether or not their building has settled into its landscape, whether it's still multi-coloured, and to find out just how life is for her as a British widow living up in the Andalucian hills.
