Grand Designs
Season 13 Episode 10 - Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
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.
Episodes in Season 13
The 1920s Cinema
45 min
North London: The miniature Hollywood mansion
45 min
York: The Giant Farm Shed
45 min
Devon
45 min
South Lanarkshire
45 min
Monmouthshire: Japanese House
45 min
South London: Modernist Masterpiece
45 min
East Devon: Cob Castle
45 min
Newbury: Christmas Farm
45 min
Revisited: Malaga, Spain: Modernist Villa
45 min
Revisited: Woodbridge: The Modest Home
45 min
