Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank, respected television presenter, author of many respected books on architecture, and honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, explores what we find irresistable about fine old buildings.

Architectural wonders that define a people or place have been lost and recreated. Warsaw old town, parts of Dresden, the palaces of St. Petersburg; the schloss in Berlin. In the UK the Euston arch - completed in 1837 and the first great monument of the railway age and one of the finest pieces of Greek Revival architecture ever built, was demolished in 1961.

After years of search most of the stones of the Arch have been recovered from a river bed in East London, and the government has recently decreed that the Arch should be rebuilt .