In 2005, TFP submitted a series of Masterplans for the city of Newcastle, connecting a series of quarters with a 'Geordie Ramblas,' a pedestrian route connecting Exhibition Park, Newcastle University, Newcastle City Centre and the East Quayside. As part of this design TFP were appointed to develop the Ouseburn Gateway Housing scheme on Newcastle's East Quayside. The brief was set out by Newcastle City Council, which delineated the proposals for the regeneration of the Ouseburn Gateway site to be a mixed-use scheme, combining residential and commercial components. With George Wimpey, Terry Farrell and Partners were recruited in to design a 32 storey tower block which was widely criticised. The plan was revised to incorporate a reduced scale tower block of 12 storeys known as the Northern Light which was also subject to criticism. Following a public enquiry into the criticisms of this proposed development, which focused on the existing water pumping station on the site, and traffic access difficulties, the planning submissions were withdrawn.

Project codes within correspondence and plans for this series of projects are: NH3, NH5.

Project Partners:
Consultants - Nathaniel Lichfield

Main active project dates: 1991 - 1998.

The Tyne and Wear Development Corporation was established in 1987 to develop land on the banks of the River Tyne and River Wear. From the beginning much emphasis was given to a mainly vacant 20 acre site called 'East Quayside' to the east and outside the conservation area of central quayside, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. In 1987 a design competition for prospective developers was launched and in 1988 Shearwater and Rosehaugh's were appointed to develop the site with their scheme based around 'festival shopping'. The scheme had a problematic journey, with initial objections from the City Council and occupiers of the site and then further impacted by the collapse of the property market between 1998 and 1990.

In 1990 the Development Corporation accepted that the Shearwater and Rosehaugh scheme was impractical for the Newcastle market and the vision for the site was forced to change. In 1991 Terry Farrell and Partners' masterplan was chosen as the basis for the development of Newcastle's East Quayside, and in 1992 the construction company and property developer AMEC was appointed to develop the area based on the TFP masterplan. The masterplan was developed in a number of phases and was completed in 1998. In 1995, the project focused on residential housing on the quayside, focusing on a number of City Road Villas, and then additional terracing on Horatio Street. Part of the masterplan also included a 'crescent' residential building around the confluence between the Ouseburn and the Tyne known as the Ouseburn village. The crescent building may have influenced the future designs for the 2005 Ouseburn Gateway masterplan, but was never executed. More information about the continuation of masterplan design features can be found under Newcastle 2005 Masterplan Scheme project material.

Construction Partners:
The Napper Partnership
CZWG Architects
Faulkner Brown
Ryder
Arup

It is likely this project came under the remit of the 'Civic Boulevard' project which included the regeneration of the Laing Art Gallery under Farrells. The overarching aim of this project was to bring definition to the city with a mix of cultural activities that extended beyond a retail space.

In 2003 Farrells was commissioned to re-plan Newcastle University’s campus on the north side of the city, and integrate it with a cultural quarter anchored by the Great North Museum. Building on this strategy, the architect proposed another large-scale plan: a linear promenade route dubbed ‘the Geordie Ramblas’, linking this emerging cultural quarter to the Millennium Bridge, and following existing routes for two miles uphill to the museum site.

The International Centre for Life building project (1995-2000) was designed to house a University centre of excellence for genetic research, a bioscience centre housing commercial research and development, and a public attraction intended to promote interest in genetics. It was also intended to aid the regeneration of the run-down West End district and the decayed hinterland of Central Station. The genetic research institute, bioscience centre and public attraction were designed as separate buildings but arranged in a curved layout around a central open space, which contained the grade II listed market keepers house.

Architecturally, the building aimed to respond to its surroundings, with the curved forms of the layout mirroring the layout of the railway lines from Central station, and also drew inspiration from the form of an embryo in-utero. The L-shaped Bioscience Centre forms phase one of the development and was completed in 1998, securing EU funding. Additional Lottery Funding was used for the non-commercial elements of the project, with construction of the genetics institute, external services and public areas forming phase two of the development. The Bioscience Centre was constructed as a relatively simple concrete framed building, faced in sandstone on its piazza elevation and rendered on the street front.

The Institute of Human Genetics was designed as colourful new addition to the city whilst lettable shop units were provided at piazza level and were designed with an eye-catching colour scheme. The LIFE public attraction was designed as the visual centre point. It consisted of two distinct elements – a steel framed box-like exhibition hall which wraps around the back of the site, and a more complex ‘global garden’ structure with a free form curving roof and clad with bright green prepatinated copper cladding. The form of this roof, which was shaped initially by Sir Terry Farrell shaving bits off a polystyrene block, had no recognisable mathematical shape and was the most challenging structural element of the project.

Working drawings and project documentation for this project are split into two main groups. References for ICLB are for phase one of the building project, whilst references for ICLV refers to the International Centre for Life Village which comprised the Genetics Institute, external services and public attractions. There are also plans for further development south of the International Centre for Life which were never fully realised.

Client: International Centre for Life Trust;
Architect: Terry Farrell & Partners;
Project Manager: BDP Project Management;
Structure and Building Services Engineer: Mott MacDonald;
Quantity Surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald;
Main Contractor: Laing

52-78 Grey Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne was refurbished during 1991-1995 as part of an urban regeneration project. Grey Street (c 1836) was a listed Grade II streetscape designed by John Dobson for Richard Grainger. This stretch of Grey Street included a small corner pavilion and a large seven-window-wide pavilion section that was originally four houses.

In 1993-1994, Newcastle City Council approved a scheme by Terry Farrell & Company in which Numbers 52-60 (plot 2) were restored and extended to the rear, and the facade of Numbers 62-78 (plot 1) was retained to provide a frontage to a new open plan office space. Plot one covered regeneration of No's. 62-78 Grey Street and the top north-west corner of Highbridge Street. Plot 2 makes up No's. 52-60 Grey Street and the extension back onto Market Lane and Pilgrim Street. While the principle of facadism was not generally permissible under Council policy, it was concluded that the scheme ensured the successful long-term use of the property and retained the rhythm and harmony of this section of the townscape along Grey Street.

This project ran from 2005-2009 and was one element of a vision to form a cultural quarter within Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Hancock Museum was a natural sciences museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne housed in a Grade 2 listed building. It occupied an elevated position at the northern entrance to the city centre, on the edge of Newcastle University’s campus. Occupying a prominent site on the Great North Road the brief was for the building to address its setting in relation to the city, and to maximise exhibition space with a reinterpretation of the varied collection by exhibition designers, Casson Mann. Also central to the scheme was a vision to unite three separate but important collections within the city - the natural history collections of the former Hancock Museum, the Greek and Etruscan artefacts from the Shefton Museum, and the collection of the Museum of Antiquities, with some fine and decorative art from the Hatton Gallery.

The project aimed to conserve and enhance the original historic building. As such, there were two distinct project phases - the refurbishment of the existing Hancock Museum, and an extensive internal restoration. The project included a new three storey extension at the rear of the original building to house special exhibitions, along with council and social rooms, a library, archives and an education zone. The new museum was re-named The Great North Museum and opened in May 2009.

A collection of project dayfiles consisting of reports and correspondence and plan drawings, divided into new work documentation and plan drawings.

A vision of a North-South route through Central London. Linking the vantage point of Primrose Hill to the Thames and other strategic walking routes in the capital. This route was to be named the Nash Ramblas, as it follows Regents Street and connects through Portland Place, into Regent's Park key creations of Nash during the 1920's. Key concepts within the Nash Ramblas included moving London Zoo, creating a new canal station, direct pedestrain access and crossings at Marylebone Road, part pedestrianisation from Regents Street to Waterloo Place. The concept was launched by Sir Terry Farrell, English Heritage and The Crown Estate in June 2004, and a related steering group was formed.

Redevelopment of Moor House, London Wall, London.

The site was previously home to a 1960s modernist office block. In January 1987, planning consent was granted for a major redevelopment of Moor House to a design by Terry Farrell and Company. In the Autumn of 1987 Greycoat Plc acquired Moor House and began to consider a different approach to its development, still working with Terry Farrell and Company on the redesign, and a revised planning application was submitted in April 1990. However, the project in the revised form did not go ahead.

The development of Moor House was finally completed in 2004, designed by Foster and Partners.

Client: Greycoat Group Plc