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Terry Farrell (architect)

{{short description|British architect}}

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{{Infobox architect

| honorific_prefix = Sir

| name = Terry Farrell

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|size=100%|country=GBR|CBE|FRIBA|FRSA|FCSD|MRTPI}}

| image = Terry Farrell.jpg

| caption = Sir Terry Farrell

| nationality = British

| birth_name = Terence Farrell

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1938|05|12}}

| birth_place = Sale, Cheshire, England

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| death_place =

| occupation = Architect

| spouse =

| 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 = [https://farrells.com Official website]

| education = Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
University of Pennsylvania

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File:Secret Intelligence Service building - Vauxhall Cross - Vauxhall - London - from Millbank 24042004.jpg in London, 1994]]

File:Peak Tower 1.jpg in Hong Kong, 1995]]

File:EICC1.JPG in Edinburgh, 1995]]

File:Architecture of The Deep 05.JPG in Hull, 2002]]

File:Beijing South Station.jpg in Beijing, 2008]]

File:深圳“京基100”摩天大楼.jpg in Shenzhen, 2011]]

Sir Terence Farrell {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRIBA|FRSA|FCSD|MRTPI}} (born 12 May 1938), 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 and SIS Building.{{cite web |title=Terry Farrell and Partners |publisher=Resource for Urban Design Information |url=http://www.rudi.net/books/12042 |url-status=dead |accessdate=19 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716022009/http://www.rudi.net/books/12042 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |df=dmy-all}} 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 and Guangzhou South railway station in Guangzhou.

Early life and education

Terence Farrell was born on May 12, 1938 in Sale, Cheshire.{{cite web |title=Terry Farrell is the man with the master plan |date=10 April 2012 |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/terry-farrell-is-the-man-with-the-master-plan-6529384.html |accessdate=1 February 2016}} His maternal grandfather was born in Manchester to an Irish mother who had emigrated to England from Ireland to escape Great Famine. He moved to Newcastle upon Tyne at a young age and attended the St Cuthbert's Grammar School. He graduated with a degree in architecture from the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (then part of Durham University) in 1961, which was followed by a Masters in Urban Planning at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.{{cite magazine |year=2002 |title=Sir Terry Farrell's Vision |url=https://f.hubspotusercontent20.net/hubfs/5025575/Issue%252001%2520-%2520Autumn%25202002.pdf |magazine=Arches |publisher=Newcastle University |page=12 |issue=1}}

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.{{cite news |title=Building up to a role in the city's future? |url=http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=77652004 |work=The Scotsman |location=Edinburgh |accessdate=12 November 2010}}

He has been responsible for regeneration projects in the UK including Newcastle Quayside, Brindleyplace in Birmingham, Edinburgh Exchange District, Greenwich Peninsula and Paddington Basin.{{cite web| url=http://www.sustainable-cities.org.uk/db_docs/masterplan1x.pdf| title=A critique of Masterplanning as a technique for introducing urban design quality into British Cities| publisher=Dr Bob Giddings| work=Paper| accessdate=12 November 2010| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002213759/http://www.sustainable-cities.org.uk/db_docs/masterplan1x.pdf| archivedate=2 October 2011| df=dmy-all}} 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 {{convert|72|acre|ha|adj=on}} area around Earl's Court exhibition centre.{{cite web | url=http://www.regen.net/news/ByDiscipline/Business/1007392/Farrell-picked-draw-Earls-Court-masterplan/| title=Farrell picked to draw up Earls Court masterplan| publisher=Regeneration and Renewal| work=Article| accessdate=5 January 2011}} In 2012 his practice was appointed as masterplanners for Wood Wharf – the next phase of Canary Wharf's development.{{cite web | url=http://www.costar.co.uk/en/assets/news/2012/September/Canary-Wharf-Group-hires-Terry-Farrell-for-Wood-Wharf-masterplan/| title=Canary Wharf hires Terry Farrell for Wood Wharf masterplan| publisher=CoStar UK| work=Article| accessdate=27 January 2013}}

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 development1998 Kowloon Transport Super City Terry Farrell & Partners/Steven Smith, Hong Kong and the British Consulate-General, Hong Kong. His KK100 tower in Shenzhen is the tallest building ever by a British architect.{{cite news |last=Glancey |first=Jonathan |title=The tower and the glory: Terry Farrell's KK100 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jan/31/terry-farrell-kk100-shenzhen-skyscraper |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=31 January 2012 |accessdate=27 January 2013}}

Farrell is on the Design Advisory Committee of the Mayor of London.{{cite web |title=The Mayor's Design Advisory Panel |url=http://www.designforlondon.gov.uk/how-we-work/ |url-status=dead |publisher=Design for London |accessdate=12 November 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125153425/http://www.designforlondon.gov.uk/how-we-work/ |archivedate=25 November 2010 |df=dmy-all}} In 2008 he was appointed Design and Planning Leader for the Thames Gateway,{{cite web |title=Thames Gateway |url=http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.commentview&comment_id=27 |publisher=World Architecture News |accessdate=12 November 2010}} Europe's largest regeneration project.

Farrell was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1978 Birthday Honours,UK list:{{London Gazette |issue=47549 |date=2 June 1978 |pages=6238 |supp=y}} promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1996 New Year Honours for services to architecture,United Kingdom list: {{London Gazette |issue=54255 |pages=8 |supp=1 |date=30 December 1995}} and knighted in the 2001 Birthday Honours for services to architecture and urban design.United Kingdom {{London Gazette| issue=56237 |date=16 June 2001|pages=1 |supp=1}}

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.{{cite web |title=Newcastle University building named in honour of architect |url=http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2019/06/sirterryfarrellbuilding/ |website=Press Office |date=13 June 2019 |access-date=2019-12-17}}

Personal life

Farrell has been married three times, and has five children and seven grandchildren.Jacob Riis Award.{{cite web |title=Worldwide Photography Gala Awards |url=http://www.thegalaawards.net/announcements/2nd-edition-jacob-riis |publisher=The Gala Awards |accessdate=11 January 2012}}

Selected awards

Selected publications

  • 2014 The Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment
  • 2013 The City As A Tangled Bank: Urban Design versus Urban Evolution, John Wiley and Sons London
  • 2009 Shaping London: The patterns and forms that make the metropolis, John Wiley and Sons London {{ISBN|978-0-470-69996-6}}
  • April 2008 Prospect, 12 Challenges for Edinburgh
  • Sept 2007 Architectural Review, Manifesto For London
  • 2004 Place, Terry Farrell's Life & Work: Early Years to 1981 London
  • 2003 Buckingham Palace Redesigned: A Radical New Approach to London's Royal Parks, Papadakis {{ISBN|1-901092-40-2}}
  • 2002 Terry Farrell in Scotland foreword by Dr. Brian Edwards, Edinburgh
  • 2002 The Deep The World's Only Submarium – An Icon for Hull foreword by The Rt Hon John Prescott, London
  • 2002 Ten Years: Ten Cities The Work of Terry Farrell & Partners 1991–2001 foreword by Sir Terry Farrell, Introduction by Hugh Pearman, Text by Jane Tobin, London
  • 1999 PA Pro Architect 13 Terry Farrell, Seoul
  • 1998 Sketchbook 12.05.98 Terry Farrell & Partners with essays by Robert Maxwell and Terry Farrell, London
  • 1998 98:06 World Architecture Review Special Issue: Terry Farrell & Partners Shenzhen
  • 1998 Kowloon Transport Super City Terry Farrell & Partners/Steven Smith, Hong Kong
  • 1994 Terry Farrell Selected and Current Works introduction by Clare Melhuish, Victoria
  • 1993 Terry Farrell Urban Design introduction by Kenneth Powell, London/Berlin
  • 1993 Blueprint Extra 09, Three Urban Projects text by Piers Gough, London
  • 1993 World Architecture Building Profile No 1 Lightweight Classic Terry Farrell's Covent Garden nursery building, London
  • 1992 Vauxhall Cross: The story of the design and construction of a new London landmark, Kenneth Powell, London
  • 1991 Palace on the River Terry Farrell's design for the redevelopment of Charing Cross, Marcus Binney, London
  • 1989 A U special feature: Terry Farrell & Company’ Japan, December pp. 37–132
  • 1987 Terry Farrell in the context of London catalogue by Rowan Moore with an introduction by Deyan Sudjic, published to coincide with the exhibition at the RIBA Heinz Gallery 14 May to 13 June 1987, London
  • 1986 Designing a House Charles Jencks and Terry Farrell, London
  • 1984 Architectural Monographs: Terry Farrell introduction by Terry Farrell, texts by Colin Amery and Charles Jencks, London

References

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External links

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  • [http://www.terryfarrell.co.uk/ Terry Farrell and Partners]

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