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Episode 5: A West Coast Monument

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Why a landmark building in Oban by John Stewart McCaig never got finished.

Jonathan Glancey visits Oban to discover why grander plans for the hill around McCaig's Tower never materialised. From July 2012.

In the last in the series, Jonathan Glancey visits the west highland town of Oban to find out why a remarkable landmark building never got finished. High on the hill above Oban is McCaig's Tower, built by John Stewart McCaig. It's an impressive sight, with a shape like the Coliseum in Rome. But McCaig planned to build much more than we can see today, and Jonathan sets out to find out why the plans were never followed through.

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Jonathan Glancey looks at the great building projects of Britain that never made it

Architectural writer and historian Jonathan Glancey looks at the great building projects of Britain that never made it off the drawing board

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