Biota! was a proposed aquarium in the Silvertown Quays redevelopment, on the site of Millennium Mills adjacent to the Royal Victoria Dock. It formed part of the wider Thames Gateway regeneration project for East London. Biota! would have formed one of the main public attractions in the 60-acre (24 ha), £1.5 billion development, along with Silvertown Venture Xtreme an extreme sports and surf centre.

Biota! was to be operated by the Zoological Society of London and would have been the world's first aquarium entirely based on the principles of conservation. The design for the aquarium incorporated four biomes, each representing an entire ecosystem. The £80 million aquarium building designed by Farrells was given outline planning permission in March 2005 and was initially expected to be completed in 2008, but the project was cancelled in 2009.

Project Partners:
Client: Silvertown Quays Limited
Main Contractor: Quintain
Engineers: WS Atkins, Hoare Lea, ARUP
Architects: Patel Taylor

Brindley Place, Birmingham. Master Plan 1990.

Farrell was responsible for the Masterplan and also designed the Crescent Theatre within the Brindley Place site, on Sheepcote Street (completed 1998 with John Chatwin).

Landowners of Railtrack PLC wanted to appoint a masterplanner/architect to develop a disused railways goods yard. It is unclear whether Terry Farrell and Partners were appointed or if the project was eventually executed.

Project Partners:
Faulkner Brown
Hoare Lea

A third ‘new town’ masterplan for the outskirts of Edinburgh in addition to calderwood and south east wedge.

Project Partners:
Engineers: Faber Maunsell
Consultants: Wardell Armstrong

Material for this project is also known by the title ‘Bloomsbury Urban Realm Analysis’. The known project dates cover 2005-2006. In terms of chronology, it coincides with UCL’s development of the hospital site, but is a separate project. Farrells were employed to deliver a ‘strategic vision’ aimed to assist in identifying future masterplan proposals for the area, and provide a context for various initiatives pursued by interested parties.

The brief was to examine options for improvements to the urban realm in the area bounded by Euston Road, Tottenham Court Road, New Oxford Street / Bloomsbury Way and Southampton Row / Woburn Place. The scope of the brief also included the re-assessment of patterns of traffic, pedestrian and public transport movement. The resulting vision was required to take into account work already commissioned on traffic flows around the Euston underpass, specifically the re-introduction of two-way working along part of Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street, the introduction of a bus contra-flow along sections of Tottenham Court Road and the re-design of the main Euston Road junctions. The resulting scoping study produced the ‘Strategic Urban Realm Plan.’

Construction Partners:
Project Managers: M3 Consulting

From c. 1998 to 2000, Terry Farrell and Partners with client, Lend Lease, worked together to develop a masterplan for a mixed use development in the Bluewater Valley west site, a quarry to the east of the Bluewater shopping centre. The client’s brief was to bring forward development plans for the initial phases of Bluewater Valley West, taking into account plans for further development at Bluewater shopping centre.

Construction Partners:
Building Materials Supplier: Blue Water Industries Plc

In May 1978 BMW began negotiations with Wiltshiers for the design and construction of their new UK headquarters and parts distribution centre. It was decided that Bracknell New Town fulfilled the requirements for the new BMW headquarters, made even more attractive by Wiltshier’s property development experience in the area.
To meet BMW’s brief for a high quality building reflective of their corporate identity to be built within a short timeframe, Wiltshiers invited Farrell Grimshaw Partnership to re-unite the design team responsible for the earlier Herman-Miller factor building project at Bath. Full occupation of the building by December 1979 was essential to allow full operation from 1st January 1980.

In view of the time-scale, and to minimise any delays arising in industries fringing the construction area, it was decided to adopt a structural solution based on a dry envelope, with a high element of offsite fabrication. Steel was therefore chosen for the structural frame and the cladding support framework. An economic design was arrived at for all the buildings using one basic column size and two beam sizes for the warehouse and link block, and one beam and one column for the office block. A single cladding system using white pre-finished, maintenance-free, and interchangeable Alucobond panels was used for the whole development.

In the final design the offices overlooked two landscaped courtyards, bordered by a mixed used area which included the restaurant, showroom, car workshops and computer room.

Consists of letters and proofs relating to the published poetry works of Brendan Cleary.