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Kevin McCloud

Kevin McCloud

British designer and writer

Jun 17, 2026

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37 MINS LATER

37:29
Yes, final piece to camera, please.
10:01
[laughs]
10:01
Yeah.
10:02
No, I think it's, it's a really, really interesting thing 'cause I was in Germany recently and, and, and in Germany, there's a thing called Kerwe, which happens every month.
10:10
And when you buy a house or you rent a place, you sign up to, um, volunteer and give a day a month of your time to sweep the streets and look after the bit of public realm that's outside your building.
10:20
And it's why German villages and towns are so extraordinarily beautifully kept.
10:25
Um, and I think it does come down to people.
10:27
It doesn't matter how beautiful the setting, doesn't matter how, you know, intentionally magical the architecture is.

16 MINS LATER

26:03
Yeah, so when it, uh, comes to Australian architecture, Kevin, you haven't had the Tim Ross tour yet, so maybe this is, uh, jumping the gun a bit, but do you have a favorite Australian style of architecture, and why is it the Queenslander? [laughs]
10:03
[laughs]
10:04
Yeah.
10:04
No, I think it's, it's a really, really interesting thing 'cause I was in Germany recently and, and, and, and in Germany there's a thing called Kerwe, which happens every month, and you, when you buy a house or you rent a place, you sign up to, um, volunteer and give a day a month of your time to sweep the streets and look after the bit of public realm that's outside your building, and it's why German villages and towns are so extraordinarily beautifully kept.
10:27
Um, and I think it does come down to people.
10:30
It doesn't matter how beautiful the setting, doesn't matter how, you know, intensely magical the architecture is.
10:35
Frankly, if, if people aren't happy in a place, um, and if the place doesn't make them happy, and if they don't connect to it, I think, um, th- that, that's sort of fundamental.
10:44
I, I went to Christchurch, you know, shortly after the e- earthquake and, and, and then to the, um, the, the, the, the rebuilt, you know, the cardboard cathedral, and that was one of the first buildings to go, to go up and, and, um, and I just think that the, the, it is sometimes it takes crisis and it takes, you know, a realization and a, a desire from people to kind of take control of their public realm and take control of their spaces, and to want to, to take... you know, to sort of pr- properly do democracy in action for, for places to spring alive.

17 MINS LATER

28:24
Yeah, so when it, uh, comes to Australian architecture, Kevin, you haven't had the Tim Ross tour yet, so maybe this is, uh, jumping the gun a bit, but do you have a favorite Australian style of architecture? And why is it the Queenslander? [laughs]

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