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Wood Green

The commission for six factory units at Wood Green in North London was won by the Terry Farrell Partnership in a developers' limited competition. A strategy of combining renovation with piecemeal redevelopment was adopted and the most run-down and least re-usable existing properties were cleared to create six sites. These were developed as a single scheme of speculative industrial units each ranging in size from 4,300 square feet to 21,500 square feet with considerable flexibility for subdivision into different factory sizes. A common solution was developed and adapted for each site where each building was built up to its site boundaries, whatever the plan profile, around partially enclosed courts. One of the characteristics of this specific type of urban planning was that the design of open space became as critical as the design of the buildings themselves. At Wood Green each courtyard was a tightly designed formal arrangement of the turning circles and unloading positions of large vehicles, staff and visitor car parking, and entrance points of all vehicles and pedestrians.

Where access was limited or non-existent, the external boundary walls were constructed of brick. This provided fire protection, reduced vandalism, and minimised maintenance requirements. The front and courtyard elevations had a glazed modular curtain wall system, which used reflective glass to increase the apparent size of the courtyards, improved lighting, and gave interest in the many reflections.

Known building project dates are inclusive of the Farrell and Grimshaw Partnership company existence. Project material overlaps between the Farrell and Grimshaw Partnership and the Terry Farrell Partnership company operations.

Westoe Hill

In the late 1990s, English Partnerships and their consultants Urban Villages Forum (UVF) invited architect / design consortia to prepare a comprehensive master plan for the redevelopment of the former Westoe Colliery site. The Westoe Colliery site is one mile south east of the South Shields town centre, adjacent to the South Shields foreshore, with dramatic views of the foreshore and the North Sea beyond.

English Partnerships were seeking to procure a mixed-use development on this site and required consortia to adopt design criteria which utilised and promoted the urban village approach in the establishment of new neighbourhoods. When the Westoe Colliery closed in 1993, the South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council were keen to replace traditional industry with modern industrial units. However, given the nature of the site, there was general agreement by the Local Authority and English Partnerships that residential development should be the predominant use of the site. Terry Farrell and Partners submitted a masterplan in February 1999; however, the eventual development contract went to the Princes’ Foundation.

Waterloo Place

This project involved the refurbishment and development of properties owned by Lloyds Bank plc at 6-8 Pall Mall, 1-6 Waterloo Place, and 25-27 Charles II Street, London. This included the Lloyds Headquarters at Pall Mall. In July 1989 Terry Farrell and Company were appointed as architects to the project.

The initial proposals for the scheme were to partially demolish the existing Pall Mall building. The external elevations were to be retained, the basement was to be enlarged, and there was to be the construction of new enclosures and an arcade/lightwell wall. New internal spaces included the Long Room, Charles II Street Entrance, Pall Mall Entrance and the Grand Room.

There was also to be repaving in 'York Stone' at the front of the development to provide urban improvement.

It is unclear if this project went ahead, at the time of the scheme proposal a cost-reduction procedure was in place, so not all proposals could be carried out as specified in the initial design scheme.

Vauxhall Cross (MI6)

The Secret Intelligence Services Building, more commonly known as the MI6 Building, is the headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service, situated on the Albert Embankment section of the River Thames in London. The site on which the building stands had been the location of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and along with various industrial buildings after the demolition of the Pleasure Garden's in the 1850s. In 1983, the site was bought by property developers Ragalian Properties, and a competition to develop the site was won by Terry Farrell and Partners, with an urban village as Farrells' original proposal. Following the decision of the British Government to purchase the site and building as a new headquarters for the SIS, a scheme of office blocks was subsequently developed for the site with the government agency as the occupier. The building was completed in 1993-1994.

Vasteras Railway Station

Vasteras Railway Station, Sweden. New railway station and associated master plan. 1993-1995. Winning competition entry but not executed.

Terry Farrell and Company were invited to submit a competition proposal to design Vasteras’ main railway station in 1993. The central urban design concept was to address the fact that the town had been substantially cut off from the lakeside edge when the railway track had first been built. The station was therefore conceived as a bridge between the lake and the town as well as an access point to the train services. It was desirable to form links to pedestrian and bicycle routes, and create formal public spaces at street level as a new district around the station with a distinct identity. A pedestrian bridge route was to be integrated into the scheme to provide general public access at all times, linking the town centre and the Eastern Dock.

The most visually striking part of the station design was a curved glass arch 72 metres long and 13 metres high, resembling an ancient Viking helmet in silhouette, supported by a series of timber ribs reminiscent of the frames of Viking longboats.

Undergraduate

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

TVam

The Breakfast Television Centre was the former headquarters for TV-AM, located in Camden Town, London. The project ran from 1981-1983. It was converted from a former car showroom to a design by Sir Terry Farrell. The brief called for reception and hospitality areas, two television studios, control rooms, technical facilities and office space for 350 employees. The production facilities were on the ground-floor level and the administration on the first-floor level. Linking these two floors was the central stair. Sitting in a sea of blue carpet, and in the form a of a Mesopotamian ziggurat, the central stair at half-floor level became a platform from which the activities of the first floor could be seen, and which was designed to function as an informal meeting place. This stair was also regularly used as a stage set for the studio's programmes from 1983 until 1992 when the programme ceased production. // The majority of records for TV-AM are located at RIBA, the majority of material relating to TV-AM at Newcastle University Special Collections consists of magazine publications about the building.

Travel Files

A collection of administration files relating to business travel including tickets and itineraries.

Transparancy Library

A large collection of project photograph transparencies inclusive of construction and publicity project phases.

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