This project (2003 – April 2007) was based around a collaborative masterplan between the Crown Estates and The British Land Company that aimed to enhance the local environment by improving pedestrian connectivity and enhancing the public realm. The project incorporated the development of a mixed use area comprising office accommodation, residential apartments, a community theatre, retail provision and a new public square. The development was split into two distinct phases that included structures A (No 1 Great Portland Street), B (No 1 Soane Street) and C (Trinity Mews), along with the design of new public spaces and includes an extension of numbers 10 and 20 Triton Street.

Key features of this development are focused around Osnaburgh Street, Euston Road and Triton Street. The footprints of the office blocks were partially determined by viewpoints from public areas, this included reducing the scope of 10 Triton Street to maximise visibility to 20 Triton Street and ensure a frontage view from Euston Road. This also increased the amount of space allocated to the public realm. Additionally, a new pedestrian crossing on the Euston Road, south-east from Triton Street and funded by British Land plc improved access to the site and connected it with the more established commercial districts of Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia, along with Regent’s Park and King’s Cross.

Construction Partners: M3 Consulting; Bovis Lend Lease
Client: British Land
Design and Planning: Cityscape Digital Ltd
Main Contractor: Taylor Woodrow
Building Services: Watkins Payne Partnership
Engineers: WSP

Allied Irish Bank, Queen Street, London. 1982-1985.

This infill office building in the City of London was to provide a banking hall and office accommodation on a very sensitive site in the Garlick conservation area, and close to Wren's St James' Garlickhithe Church. It was designed with two pavilion-type projecting bays at the front linked by the ground-level porch and roof-level boardroom, in order to preserve the existing rhythm of the street. The exterior is clad in pink granite with a heavy rusticated granite plinth, marking Sir Terry Farrell's first venture into stone, and the beginning of a move away from the glass curtain-walling which dominated new buildings in the City during the previous two decades. At the time of construction in 1982, the thin-wall cladding system was new. Internal spaces are virtually column-free, with minimum ceiling heights to confirm with St Paul's Cathedral heights requirements. Lift lobbies and cloakrooms are decorated in granite, marble and stainless steel.

The Preston Tithebarn redevelopment project was a £700 million city centre regeneration initiative in Preston, Lancashire. The project was intended to be developed by Preston Tithebarn Partnership, a 50/50 joint venture between Grosvenor and Lend Lease Corporation in partnership with Preston City Council.

Terry Farrell’s masterplan for the project was submitted in 2000. In October 2005, Preston City Council and Grosvenor signed the agreement to go ahead with the Tithebarn regeneration project as part of Council's broader plans for Preston city, with Terry Farrell’s masterplan as the basis for development. In 2006 Grosvenor asked the architects Building Design Partnership to take forward Terry Farrell’s original masterplan and an updated masterplan was subsequently submitted in 2007. The scheme was finally abandoned in 2011 when the anchor tenant for the scheme, John Lewis, pulled out.

Throughout the scheme’s history, a number of neighbouring councils objected to the development. The scheme also included plans for the demolition of Preston Bus Station, a contentious issue which resulted in a failed application for listed building status by English Heritage in 2000. The Bus Station, was built by Ove Arup and Partners in the Brutalist architectural style between 1968 and 1969, to a design by Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson of Building Design Partnership (interestingly also appointed as architects to the Tithebarn scheme) with E. H. Stazicker. Following the abandonment of the Tithebarn scheme in 2011, a renewed campaign to save Preston Bus Station was initiated and it was finally granted Grade 2 listed building status in September 2013. It was then refurbished and officially re-opened in 2018.

Construction Partners:
Cushman and Wakefield
Client: Grosvenor and Bovis Lend Lease
Engineering Consultant: Arup

This series contains both cuttings and articles, and correspondence with press and media organisations.

A small collection of personal and academic items dating from Sir Terry Farrell's postgraduate studies at Newcastle University.

The Colonnades project, a comprehensive redevelopment for Samuel Properties Ltd of a three-acre site at Porchester Square, London between 1974-1976. The brief was to create a high-density redevelopment of the site prioritising residential accommodation, with limited shopping and commercial use. The resulting proposals consisted of 243 houses, flats and maisonettes, a supermarket, eight shops, offices, a pub and an underground carpark. The Colonnades project was also associated with the development of Paddington Library for the City of Westminster.

The scheme was notable for incorporating much of the existing terraces which bounded the site and knitting together new urban design features with building conservation principles. Buildings at 36-46 Porchester Square were retained and new buildings were staggered to follow the line of the street. New units at the sides of the scheme were limited in height to avoid overshadowing, and allowed natural light through to the central square. The new block in Porchester Terrace North was staggered to follow the line of the street and limited in height to reflect the scale of the adjoining properties. To make use of the large flat roofs covering the library and commercial areas, a new house type was developed in the form of a series of narrow patio houses entered from landscaped walkways. Existing houses were also linked at ground level by an indoor pedestrian street.

Drawing references for this project are divided between phases 01 and 02, with the building they refer to included at the end of the reference (P1/C/ME/PQL).

A large collection of project photographs inclusive of construction and publicity project phases.

Farrells was chosen as architect for three contemporary homes at Courtyards, River Lane, Petersham by Berkeley Homes. Completed in 2004, the design concept created three individual family homes that form part of an architectural grouping, while remaining elements of privacy for each house. Each house was conceived as a linear arrangement of rooms comprising dining room, kitchen, study and bedrooms accessed from a double-height gallery that ran the length of each house.