Alexander Fleming House (now called Metro Central Heights)
This collection of television programmes examining the triumphs and failures of post-war architecture, from the BBC archives, is available to watch online.
The collection features a defence of Alexander Fleming House by critic Stephen Bayley, first broadcast in 1988; an introduction by journalist Janet Street-Porter to the house designed for her by architect Piers Gough, first broadcast in 1991; an appraisal of Hauer-King House presented by architect Will Alsop, and a programme about Alton Housing Estate in Roehampton presented by Sir Richard Rogers, both first broadcast in 1996.
For more information on the series, visit BBC Four Collections. For modern properties for sale and to let in the UK, visit The Modern House.