Proposed site included 43 Farringdon Street, 25 Snow Hill and 29 Smithfield Street. Freehold ownership of site belonged to Corporation of London, however Thornfield Properties had long term lease on the basements which extended the whole of the site.

In August 2001, Thornfield Properties asked Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) to design a grade 'A' speculative building as an investment property. A planning application was submitted in May 2004, following discussion with CABE, English Heritage and the Corporation of London, due to the site being within a conservation area. Proposals focused on improving the ground level pedestrian permeability of the site, creating an 'Urban Market Hall,' along Farringdon street; additionally, the influence of the below ground railway structures created irregular ground for building design and engineering 'bridge' building with steel trusses within the structure needed to be considered.

Material in the collection mainly relates to the resulting public enquiry of 2007. Planning permission was granted subject to certain conditions which the Secretary of State called in to review.

A large collection of slides of building projects inclusive of construction and publicity project phases. Slides also include competition entries and presentation slides.

A collection of correspondence files and message book files accumulated by Sir Terry Farrell's personal secretariat rather than by the Farrell's office. As such they contain items of correspondence to and from personal business contacts, and organisations and interest groups Sir Terry was involved in personally, although they do also contain items related to projects undertaken by the Farrells practice. All items within this filing system are "personal professional", relating to architecture and other business matters.

This project comprised of the design of two twinned developments – a residential development known as ‘The Summit’ and a business development known as ‘The Centre’, located in the district of Xuhui in Shanghai, on metro lines 1 & 2. The Summit development comprised of seven luxury residential buildings – three low rises, one medium-rise, and three high-rise towers. Total floor area: 627000 square metres. The Centre comprised of one high-rise block, 40 storeys high, with a total floor area of 87300 square metres. The column free design and 360 degree glass wall offered panoramic views of the Shanghai skyline.

Project Partners:
Client: Hutchinson Whampoa Properties

The redevelopment of the Comyn Ching triangle in Covent Garden, 1978-1985, was a residential and mixed-use scheme in an oddly-shaped plot, with a mix of sub-standard and single ownership buildings. The main objective of the project was to achieve a balanced development which converted and retained as many existing buildings as possible, and built only as much new development as would make the project commercially viable. The result was an island block, with a courtyard in the centre, which aimed to give the site as a whole a clear single identity. The scheme retained the listed buildings on the perimeter and refurbished them for mixed-use occupation. New corner towers, containing office and residential buildings, defined the edges of the development. The infill buildings at the centre of the site were replaced by the courtyard, in which two new office entrances were located.

Known building project dates are inclusive of the Farrell and Grimshaw Partnership company existence. However project material within the collection is dated within Farrells company operations.

In 1996 Terry Farrell & Partners’ won a £300 million competition to build an integrated transport centre and control tower for the new Seoul international airport in South Korea. Within the context of this project Terry Farrell and Partners operated as part of a consortium consisting of Samoo/Sam Woo Architects and DMJM. The main part of the contract for Terry Farrell and Partners was a 30% detail design submission. The airport had already been masterplanned with a crescent shaped terminal plus four additional oblong shaped terminals, with a train running under the runway to link all five.

The Transportation Centre was considered by the client to be the key element in the new airport’s access system. It was designed to be the primary transition point for the major public and private transportation systems serving passengers, visitors and employees. The centre provided a link between off-airport sites and on-airport facilities, and provided for modal changes between surface motor vehicles, high speed rail systems, Seoul metropolitan transit system and multiple automated people movers.

The Terry Farrell & Partners proposal was for a tower, containing the control room, to sweep up from two curved legs which embraced a glazed great hall. The lower level housed all three types of rail transport, and car parks lay on either side. The shape consciously mirrored the monocoque shape of aircraft which simultaneously provided various structural solutions. The ‘feet’ of the building resolved the crescent-shape of the terminal and dispersed most of the weight of the building; the arches below the feet allowed the rail tracks to run smoothly into the terminal; and the underground parking left the ground floor sufficiently clear for landscaping.

Material in archive also bears project code of NSIA which has been used interchangeably throughout project records.

Construction Partners:
Client: KOACA (Korean Airport Authority)
Architects and Engineers: Samoo; DMJM (Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall); Atelier One

Located on a hill within an existing district in Seoul's Nonhyon-dong, the masterplan was designed to facilitate links and provide unity within a dispersed neighbourhood. Like the practice's other Seoul-based projects, the retail gallery and clinic buildings reflected the Korean urban trend of a complete world within a building, with arts, health, commercial, retail and leisure functions all operating within one space.

The adjacent clinic was devised as a series of stepped plates responding to the natural strata of the surrounding hillside. Each layered series of slabs would support a clinic department.

A small collection of personal and academic items dating from Sir Terry Farrell's time at primary and secondary school.

The site was located at the meeting point of the Great West Road and the M4 elevated motorway, and on the flight approach to Heathrow Airport. In response the design aimed to present a dynamic image from all viewpoints, and a distinctive gateway marker on the approach to London from the west. The result was a single landmark tower of 19 stories, arranged around a central atrium which opened towards Boston Manor Park. The innovative form of the building, eroded oval with the atrium at the heart, was a development of tried and tested plan forms, centralised core and flexible column free space. As well as producing a strong building identity, the form produced an efficient ratio of perimeter wall to floor area and improved journey times between different parts of the building. It also utilised low energy climate controls with a brises-soleil façade.

Symbolic Korean elements were deliberately built into the design, including the conscious relationship with the adjoining park, the eroded oval of the block itself, and the stepped terraces at the top of the building. The design in the Terry Farrell and Partners inspired form was not executed and the project was taken on by McDaniel Woolf.

Sainsbury's Supermarket, Fourth and Fifth Avenue, Harlow, Essex. 1992-1994.

Terry Farrell's 1994 design for the edge of town development in Harlow was given an RIBA award in 1995 for its innovative design. The store, which was linked to the city centre by a pedestrian cycleway, was designed as three large white cubes with arcades beneath. Between the cubes were cylindrical blue towers and a flight of steps leading to the north entrance. The cut out primary-coloured corners of the cubes were illuminated at night.