Terry Farrell (architect) explained

Sir Terry Farrell
Nationality:British
Birth Name:Terence Farrell
Birth Date:1938 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Sale, Cheshire, England
Occupation:Architect
Children:5
Practice:Farrells
Significant Buildings:KK100
The MI6 building
Charing Cross station
Edinburgh International Conference Centre
M+
Incheon International Airport
Beijing South railway station
The Home Office building
Peak Tower
Website:Official website

Sir Terence Farrell (born 12 May 1938), known as Terry Farrell, is a British architect and urban designer. In 1980, after working for 15 years in partnership with Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Farrell founded his own firm, Farrells. He established his reputation with three completed projects in London in the late 1980s: Embankment Place, 125 London Wall aka Alban Gate and SIS Building aka Vauxhall Cross.[1]

He garnered a strong reputation for contextual urban design schemes, as well as exuberant works of postmodernism such as the MI6 Building. In 1991, his practice expanded internationally, opening an office in Hong Kong. In Asia his firm designed KK100 in Shenzhen, the tallest building ever designed by a British architect, as well as Guangzhou South railway station, once the largest railway station in Asia.

At the 2013 invitation of Ed Vaizey, the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, his firm commenced the Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment, intended to offer expert guidance on the direction of British architecture.[2]

Early life and education

Farrell was born in Sale, Cheshire.[3] His maternal grandfather was born in Manchester to an Irish mother who had emigrated to England from Ireland to escape Great Famine. As a youth he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, where he attended St Cuthbert's Grammar School. He graduated with a degree in architecture from Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (then part of Durham University) in 1961,[4] followed by a Masters in urban planning at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Career

In 1965, Farrell moved to London to form a partnership with Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. In 1980, he founded his own company, Terry Farrell & Partners. In addition, Farrell lectures at a number of different universities including Cambridge University, the University of London, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Sheffield.

In the early part of his career, Farrell gave emphasis to housing projects. Later, after the break with Grimshaw, he became the UK's principal postmodernist and was best known for the TV-am headquarters in Camden Lock and the redevelopment of Comyn Ching Triangle in London's Covent Garden. In the 1980s and 1990s his projects included Charing Cross Station, the MI6 headquarters building, The Deep Aquarium in Hull and The International Centre for Life in Newcastle. More recent work includes the new headquarters for the Home Office, the conversion of the Grade I-listed Royal Institution of Great Britain and the Great North Museum in Newcastle.[5]

He has been responsible for regeneration projects in the UK including Newcastle Quayside, Brindleyplace in Birmingham, Edinburgh Exchange District, Greenwich Peninsula and Paddington Basin.[6] He has also designed his own buildings within these projects, including the Edinburgh International Conference Centre with the help of Duncan Whatmore, and The Point in Paddington Basin. In May 2010, he was appointed to regenerate the 72acres area around Earl's Court exhibition centre.[7] In 2012 his practice was appointed as masterplanners for Wood Wharf – the next phase of Canary Wharf's development.[8]

In East Asia, projects include Incheon International Airport in Seoul and Beijing South railway station, the largest in Asia. When completed in December 2010 Guangzhou South railway station was for a time the largest railway station in the world. Since setting up his practice in Hong Kong in 1990, he has designed the Peak Tower, Kowloon Station development[9] and the British Consulate-General, Hong Kong. His KK100 tower in Shenzhen is the tallest building ever by a British architect.[10]

Farrell is on the Design Advisory Committee of the Mayor of London.[11] In 2008 he was appointed Design and Planning Leader for the Thames Gateway,[12] Europe's largest regeneration project.

Farrell was named CBE in 1996 and made a Knight Bachelor in 2001.

He was made a visiting professor at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, and also an honorary freeman of Newcastle, in 2016. In 2018, he donated £1 million and his archive to the university.[13]

Personal life

Farrell has been married three times, and has five children and seven grandchildren.[14]

Selected awards

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Terry Farrell and Partners . Resource for Urban Design Information . dead . 19 August 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716022009/http://www.rudi.net/books/12042 . 16 July 2011 . dmy-all.
  2. Web site: The Farrell Review . Farrells . 16 February 2015.
  3. Web site: Terry Farrell is the man with the master plan . 10 April 2012 . 1 February 2016.
  4. Sir Terry Farrell's Vision. 12. Arches. Newcastle University. 1. 2002.
  5. News: Building up to a role in the city's future? . . Edinburgh . 12 November 2010.
  6. Web site: A critique of Masterplanning as a technique for introducing urban design quality into British Cities. Dr Bob Giddings. Paper. 12 November 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111002213759/http://www.sustainable-cities.org.uk/db_docs/masterplan1x.pdf. 2 October 2011. dmy-all.
  7. Web site: Farrell picked to draw up Earls Court masterplan. Regeneration and Renewal. Article. 5 January 2011.
  8. Web site: Canary Wharf hires Terry Farrell for Wood Wharf masterplan. CoStar UK. Article. 27 January 2013.
  9. 1998 Kowloon Transport Super City Terry Farrell & Partners/Steven Smith, Hong Kong
  10. News: Glancey . Jonathan . The tower and the glory: Terry Farrell's KK100 . The Guardian . London . 31 January 2012 . 27 January 2013.
  11. Web site: The Mayor's Design Advisory Panel . dead . Design for London . 12 November 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101125153425/http://www.designforlondon.gov.uk/how-we-work/ . 25 November 2010 . dmy-all.
  12. Web site: Thames Gateway . World Architecture News . 12 November 2010.
  13. Web site: Newcastle University building named in honour of architect . Press Office . 2019-12-17.
  14. Jacob Riis Award.Web site: Worldwide Photography Gala Awards . The Gala Awards . 11 January 2012.
  15. http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/farrell-and-grimshaws-bath-factory-listed/8652553.article "Farrell and Grimshaw's Bath factory listed"
  16. http://www.hrr.co.uk/history-organisation/history-of-regatta/ Henley Royal Regatta: ‘’History of Henley Royal Regatta’‘
  17. Web site: British Council for Offices Awards . Article . British Council for Offices . 5 January 2011.

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