What happens when the most famous architects in the world stop building banks and office blocks and turn instead to playgrounds, doctors' surgeries and cheap housing? This six-part series looks at whether the top guns of design can transform the neglected bits of Britain.

In the first programme, flamboyant, award-winning architect Piers Gough struggles to persuade developers that he knows best about a cafe and toilets in the middle of Birmingham. Their increasingly uneasy relationship provides a candid insight into the process of commissioning and designing a building.
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