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A family builds an off-grid home in rural Wales. TV celebrates it as a blueprint for net-zero living. But what if this vision of sustainability simply doesn’t scale up?

The first two homes on this year’s RIBA House of the Year shortlist have been revealed on Grand Designs

Chesil Cliff House destroyed owner’s marriage and left him millions of pounds in debt

The final episode will see the winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) House of the Year unveiled.

INTERVIEW: As he gears up for the annual Grand Designs Live event, the Channel 4 stalwart speaks to Adam White about Margaret Thatcher, Rachel Reeves and Britain’s ‘shameful and appalling’ housing standards, his eagerness to keep his private life private, and how he wishes people didn’t fancy him

Grand Designs team to make show set in wealthy English countryside that promises to be part glittering social whirl and part bloodbath

In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about travel, the Grand Designs Australia host reveals why he always packs a sketchbook, and welcomes things ‘not working out’

You know about Myles Kennedy’s work with Alter Bridge and Slash. You probably don’t know about his love for quaint UK TV programmes, though.

There were no shortage of wacky properties to hit the market this year, including nuclear bunkers, a studio with a cell and a replica of the HMS Endeavour