In relation to Sir Terry Farrell's role as a Commissioner for the Westminister Housing Commission, 2005-2008.

Project documents, photogrpahs, transparencies and slides, organised and maintained by the Visuals' team as a library of visual resources about past projects, available to practice staff.

Relating to Sir Terry Farrell's role as member of the Urban Design Group. Sir Terry served as President 1985-1989. He afterwards remained an active member, and served on their Board of Patrons - helping promote the group's goals to a wide audience nationally and internationally. Sir Terry was awarded a UDG Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.

A small collection of correspondence and draft material concerning donations to Newcastle University for the archive and Farrell Centre

This is a government scheme which Sir Terry Farrell was extensively involved with between 2003-2010. Initial ideas came out of government plan to build 60,000 new suburban homes in the Thames Gateway region encompassing Essex and Kent. Numerous studies demonstrated up to 120,000 homes would be needed.

Over the course of 2003-2007 numerous studies were produced about the environmental, social and economic implications for suburban sprawl into the Thames Gateway region. Terry Farrell's masterplan for the area included a linking bridge between Kent and Essex (Shoeburyness in Essex to Isle of Grain in Kent), along with the creation of two or three artificial islands in the Thames with a mixture of homes, a beach, a park and a marina. Farrell thought higher density housing in London would alleviate the pressure to ‘build soulless and endless suburbia into Kent and Essex.’ Addiitonal elements includes the incorporation of the Lea Valley and Medway into an eco-park, acting as a carbon sink and reducing the carbon footprint of new housing by 60%.

Sir Terry's core vision was about high density housing in the more immediate London area with national parks in the wider regions of the Thames Gateway. This vision was at odds with partial schemes underway within the same region which focused on sprawling suburban homes, gardens and increased car usage. Sir Terry's ideas appeared to have gained traction around 2006 and in 2008 he was appointed as Design Champion for the London Gateway, producing a core vision linking the various regeneration schemes. The fullness of Sir Terry's vision was not realised despite there being a wide range of public workshops and events publicising his proposals.

Relating to Sir Terry Farrell's role as a member of the Royal Parks Review Group 1992-1996.

The Royal Parks cover 5000 acres of parkland and provide the setting for Kensington and Buckingham Palaces, London Zoo, and the Albert Memorial. They compromise Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Regents Park, St James’ Park, Richmond Park, Green Park and Bushy Park.

In 1992 Sir Terry Farrell joined the Royal Parks Review Group, a group set up in with the remit of producing a fundamental change and improvement in the Royal Parks and how they were run, aiming for excellence in the way they were kept, quality in what the parks offered, and better management and value for money. Sir Terry Farrell’s particular remit was to look at the large-scale design of landscape and buildings together, and his conclusions were published in 1996.

A core finding was that in the transition from private royal space to public space, the Royal Parks had suffered an identity crisis which benefited neither the Royal family nor the public. He proposed that whilst the royal family did not enjoy them as they used to do, neither did the populace experience them in their full splendour either. His recommendations addressed the way that the public were often funnelled through side entrances and diverted away from original grand entrances and grand routes. He argued that there was poor access in general from the surrounding roads, and a dominance of cars over pedestrian access. Finally, the clumsy dividing of public and private space resulted in the blocking of original vistas and schemes thereby diminishing the splendour of the original design.

Relating to press and media, PR events, and publicity and marketing.

A small collection of files relating to some of the projects undertaken by the Farrell and Grimshaw Partnership.

Relating to specific architectural projects, rather than administrative files associated with the running of the practice.

Relating to the running of the practice, rather than project-specific work.