In this project (1979-1982) Charles Jencks, Maggie Keswick and Terry Farrell worked together on the conversion of the Jencks family home in Holland Park, West London. Sir Terry Farrell was heavily involved in the initial phase of renovation which changed certain internal structural features, building upon his experience of altering an existing property to introduce modern amenities.

The exterior of the existing 19th Century house was largely retained with small alterations. The interior meanwhile was extensively restructured, with the addition of a two-storey annexe, paired interlocking conservatories, a central spiral staircase and mirrored light shaft creating a dynamic space symbolically inspired by the cosmos, the solar system, and the seasons. The structural cylinder of the central staircase, supporting both itself and two adjacent walls, was cut at various points to allow both light and deliberate cross-views, sometimes uniting four rooms in a single vista. The main Solar Stair is complemented by a semi-circular 'Moonwell', which channels natural light over a darker area. The house encompassed Terry Farrell's contemporaneous philosophy that ‘circulation is a structure and form in its own right, and its celebration is the essence of the architectural solution.’

Kowloon Ventilation Building, Hong Kong. For the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC), 1993-1995. A ventilation building for the Kowloon Station on Tung Chung Line.

The ventilation building provided air to the station and the tunnel under the harbour, had a sea-water intake for cooling, and also acted as an electricity substation and emergency evacuation route. The structure was located in a public park, so the challenge of locating a utilitarian structure into such a public space required as much focus as the operational requirements. In the final design only a third of the building was visible with the remainder buried in an excavated pit that extended twenty metres down to the rail tunnels. Above ground was a low-cost reinforced-concrete building finished with grey metal cladding and yellow and grey tiles. The shape was designed as a 'dynamic swooping form' with the building profile changing from different vantage points. The design of the building also mirrored the graphic typology of the Kowloon Station concourse roof so that the two buildings together formed a physical and visual relationship. The commission mirrored Terry Farrell's first built scheme, the now-listed Blackwall Tunnel Ventilation Towers, 1964.

In 1965, the Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership were asked to design a new London hostel for overseas students, to be run by the International Students’ Club Ltd. The brief was to convert a group of six Victorian houses into a hostel for 170 students. The architects’ solved the problem of providing bathroom facilities into a very restricted area by designing an innovative tower in conjunction with the company ‘Integral Plastics’. The result was a tower of glass fibre reinforced plastic compartments providing 30 pods of bathrooms, showers and toilets, plus six additional pods fitted with a washing machine and sink instead of a bathroom. The tower was built behind the row of houses, with connections to each floor of the main building. The innovation avoided the need to retro-fit adequate plumbing into the existing buildings, but had the additional benefit of enabling architects to provide more bathroom facilities than would otherwise have been possible. The arrangement also meant that students could enter the bathroom tower from any floor and then walk up or down the spiral ramp to find an unoccupied pod – an improvement on the traditional grouping of bathrooms at the end of hostel floors.

Interior design features for each bedroom included a multi-purpose trolley storage system, mounted on castors and could be wheeled around. This solved additional space restraints within the building.

This project was initiated in 1988 after purchase by Greycoat Group plc of the freehold interest in the land beneath the Hungerford Rail Bridge incorporating Embankment Tube Station, Embankment Place and Northumberland Avenue. In 1990, the Terry Farrell Partnership submitted a proposed scheme, together with by Michael Manser Associates, and Jestico and Whiles.

The Deep Aquarium (1998-2002) was the central focus of Terry Farrell & Partners wider masterplan for the city of Hull. The objective of the project was to provide a catalyst for the economic regeneration of the city and the location for the aquarium occupied a former shipyard.

In the final design, the building rises at a 30 degree angle to form an angular point directly above the spit of land between the River Hull and the Humber Estuary. Exterior finishes were chosen for their ability to season over time. The base of the building was faced in dark grey render and black aluminium sheeting, whilst above cladding were composed of marine-grade aluminium in irregular rhomboid forms to suggest fissured rock plates. At the next level the walls are clad in reflective ceramic tiles, and finally the upward slope culminates in clear glazing, forming a viewing gallery.

Visitor circulation within the building was also carefully controlled. Visitors entered the building and were elevated to the top floor before zig-zagging down in a continuous ramp through the various aquariums and interactive exhibits. The architectural shell of the visitor experience was designed by Terry Farrell & Partners, with the design of the exhibits passed to exhibition designer John Casky Associates. Terry Farrell and Partners were also responsible for designing the adjoining business centre.

Plans for an extension to the visitor attraction were created in 2002 under project code SAMX1, it is unclear whether this went ahead with the involvement of Terry Farrell and Partners.

Construction Partners:
Client: The Deep Millenium Project
Landscape Architect: Casella

Westminster Hospital Redevelopment, Horseferry Road. St John's Gardens, Horseferry Road, London. This project involved the conversion of the existing hospital buildings into private accommodation. It also incorporated a mixed use planning study of Dean Ryle Street Building, Page Street Building, Neville House and Marsham Street.

The Peak Tower, Hong Kong. 1991-1995.

Terry Farrell & Company’s design for the redevelopment of the Peak was the winning entry in a limited international competition for a landmark building to replace the existing Peak Tower on a dramatic and prominent site in Hong Kong. It provided a total floor area of approximately 85,000 square feet incorporating the pre-existing tram station, retail and restaurant. With Peak Tram arrival at the mid-level, the internal layout was designed to spread movement of visitors throughout the building, in a clear system of vertical and horizontal circulation.

The building form, visible from Victoria Harbour, Kowloon, and the New Territories to the North, was intended to symbolise Hong Kong in the way that the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben symbolise their cities. With a solid base and floating roof it was designed to be reminiscent of traditional Chinese architecture and during the foggy season was designed to appear to be entirely separated from the earth. The building was constructed of a reinforced concrete frame and pre-cast concrete panels, with the podium clad in granite similar in appearance to the many retaining walls on the Peak. In contrast to the rest of the structure, the bowl was clad in silver anodised aluminium panels with areas of planar glazing.

Kowloon Station Hong Kong, for Client Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC), 1992-1997.

Kowloon Station was part of a plan instigated in 1989 by the Hong Kong government to replace its congested airport at Kai Tak with a new £12 billion airport on the artificial island of Chek Lap Kok. Direct links to the city of Hong Kong were integral to the plan - with all of the railway stations along the transport corridor envisioned as new compact city districts which would eventually form a 193 kilometer integrated linear city.

The brief for Kowloon Station, the largest station on the line, was to create a complex transport interchange with a footprint of 75,000 square metres that would, by 2010, be contained within a new town built to sustain a population of 50,000. The site was located on a 13.4 hectare area at the southern edge of West Kowloon reclamation land. It was to include access to the Airport Express, parking lots and bays for buses and taxis, 5126 residential units, a shopping mall, offices, hotels and recreation facilities.

The final design had three principal levels: ground floor was zoned for public transport and road; level one was dedicated to shopping and pedestrian circulation; and the podium level was dedicated to access and open spaces. In European fashion, the station square formed the core of the project, whilst rising from the station square was a more compact 'asian style super-city'. Clad in 3280 square metres of stainless steel, the roof of the station concourse rises east-west from its podium in a low-slung vault that turns upwards at each end. Four columns rise from level one, to make a covered open square and, along the north-south rail axis, escalators and stairs descend 14 metres through a glazed escalator hall to the MTR line platforms. The station was planned to encourage ease of orientation, visual connections and permeability between levels, and to provide maximum convenience for the maximum number of passengers.

Think this porject code may relate to projects from the Hong Kong Office of Farrells instead. So have created project entries based upon findings from boxes with original HKO project code. - Unsure whether we want to keep this code, as an organisation reference for - Material influencing British Consulate, but dates don't match, or Farrell's office in Hong-Kong, or material from the British Consulate office that was the juristication of the UK? -