The site was located at the meeting point of the Great West Road and the M4 elevated motorway, and on the flight approach to Heathrow Airport. In response the design aimed to present a dynamic image from all viewpoints, and a distinctive gateway marker on the approach to London from the west. The result was a single landmark tower of 19 stories, arranged around a central atrium which opened towards Boston Manor Park. The innovative form of the building, eroded oval with the atrium at the heart, was a development of tried and tested plan forms, centralised core and flexible column free space. As well as producing a strong building identity, the form produced an efficient ratio of perimeter wall to floor area and improved journey times between different parts of the building. It also utilised low energy climate controls with a brises-soleil façade.

Symbolic Korean elements were deliberately built into the design, including the conscious relationship with the adjoining park, the eroded oval of the block itself, and the stepped terraces at the top of the building. The design in the Terry Farrell and Partners inspired form was not executed and the project was taken on by McDaniel Woolf.

The original building for this project had many uses and began as a conglomeration of buildings dating to the 1920’s, when it originally used for the Palmer Tyre Company. It had also been a factory for building components used in Britain's famous landmark spitfire aircrafts. This project by Terry Farrell and Partners incorporated the conversion of an office building ‘The Wallis Building,’ to 21 self-contained flats 65 Penfold Street, St John’s Wood, London. and the project was sometimes known as the ‘Spitfire Works,’ referencing its commercial history.

Project Partners:
Glanville and Associates Consulting Civil and Structural Engineers

In 1996 Terry Farrell & Partners’ won a £300 million competition to build an integrated transport centre and control tower for the new Seoul international airport in South Korea. Within the context of this project Terry Farrell and Partners operated as part of a consortium consisting of Samoo/Sam Woo Architects and DMJM. The main part of the contract for Terry Farrell and Partners was a 30% detail design submission. The airport had already been masterplanned with a crescent shaped terminal plus four additional oblong shaped terminals, with a train running under the runway to link all five.

The Transportation Centre was considered by the client to be the key element in the new airport’s access system. It was designed to be the primary transition point for the major public and private transportation systems serving passengers, visitors and employees. The centre provided a link between off-airport sites and on-airport facilities, and provided for modal changes between surface motor vehicles, high speed rail systems, Seoul metropolitan transit system and multiple automated people movers.

The Terry Farrell & Partners proposal was for a tower, containing the control room, to sweep up from two curved legs which embraced a glazed great hall. The lower level housed all three types of rail transport, and car parks lay on either side. The shape consciously mirrored the monocoque shape of aircraft which simultaneously provided various structural solutions. The ‘feet’ of the building resolved the crescent-shape of the terminal and dispersed most of the weight of the building; the arches below the feet allowed the rail tracks to run smoothly into the terminal; and the underground parking left the ground floor sufficiently clear for landscaping.

Material in archive also bears project code of NSIA which has been used interchangeably throughout project records.

Construction Partners:
Client: KOACA (Korean Airport Authority)
Architects and Engineers: Samoo; DMJM (Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall); Atelier One

Terry Farrell and Partners began masterplanning the redevelopment of the Lots Road Power Station site for Hong Kong developer Hutchison Whampoa in 1996, in partnership with Circadian developers and Taylor Woodrow.

The final proposals involved converting the red-brick power station for residential use (Site A) and introducing a 37-storey tower, a 25-storey tower and several lower-rise blocks on the 4.6ha site (site B), which straddled the boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham.

Representatives of Kensington & Chelsea borough – as well as local residents – opposed aspects of the scheme, but deputy prime minister John Prescott granted it consent in 2006, following a public inquiry. The project finally broke ground in 2013 following further delays prompted by the 2008-9 financial crisis and preparatory work for the Thames Tideway Tunnel.

The first phase was completed in 2018. Formation Architects is targeting completion in 2024 for the power station itself.

Construction Partners:
Planning Consultancy: DP9
Building Consultancy: TGA
Engineering Consultant: Arup
Main Contractor: Taylor Woodrow
Landscape Design: Randle Siddeley Associates

Material in the collection also has the project code of LRTW.

In 1994/1995, Terry Farrell & Company submitted a scheme for an addition to a series of converted Robert Adam townhouses in Charlotte Square, with the aim to provide speculative office accommodation. The scheme, developed for Scottish Widows, proposed retaining numbers 15-17 Charlotte Square in their entirety, but to replace the buildings in the ‘backland’ behind the townhouses with a new grouping of low rise-office blocks and a basement carpark. These were of the same massing as the existing buildings and were to be joined to the townhouses by a new glass link. The areas around the new buildings were to be landscaped, and the interior and exterior of the original buildings cleared of accretions and restored (including the reinstating of the original roofscape). Inside the building units the plan allowed for a number of letting arrangements, with the new building linked to numbers 15 and 16, and 17 remained a self-contained unit.

Construction Partners:
Client: Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society
Engineer: The Carl Fisher Sibbald Partnership; KJ Tait and Associates
Quantity Surveyor: CBA

Cambourne was a projected new village in Cambridgeshire, on 400 acres of agricultural land 14 km east of Cambridge, planned and approved to relieve the pressure on Cambridge and its green belt. An outline consent for the scheme was granted in 1994 and the masterplan published in 1995. Planning permission for the final scheme was granted in 1996 and construction began in 1998.

The final masterplan was created by Terry Farrell & Partners. The masterplan divided development into 10 distinct phases with defined numbers of house quotas per phase, along with phased incorporation of access routes, schools, convenient retail establishments and infrastructure facilities. However the architectural style was deliberately pluralist, and seven firms of architects contributed to different parts of the scheme, including CZWG, Weston Williamson, Robert Adam, and Panter Hudspith. The plan created 3300 homes, a third of which would be social housing, plus schools, shops, offices, a church, library, and manor house hotel.

The scheme responded to both landscape and environmental factors, and a published landscape assessment demonstrated how the firm had determined the suitability of different parts of the site for development and areas of landscape of greatest potential as open space.

Construction Partners:
Building Company: Countryside Properties PLC

Located on a hill within an existing district in Seoul's Nonhyon-dong, the masterplan was designed to facilitate links and provide unity within a dispersed neighbourhood. Like the practice's other Seoul-based projects, the retail gallery and clinic buildings reflected the Korean urban trend of a complete world within a building, with arts, health, commercial, retail and leisure functions all operating within one space.

The adjacent clinic was devised as a series of stepped plates responding to the natural strata of the surrounding hillside. Each layered series of slabs would support a clinic department.

Likely also called the Alfred Place Project, bulding area consisted of 209-226 Tottenham Court Road and 1-17 Alfred Place.

This project mostly includes elements of The Exchange Financial District masterplan. This was a 1989 competition winning masterplan submitted by Terry Farrell & Partners for the area adjacent to Edinburgh’s West End. This site had previously been occupied by the Caledonian Railway Station which had formed a rift between the New Town and the triangle of land between Lothian Road and Morrison Street. A fundamental aim of the design strategy was to ‘heal’ this divide by re-establishing links across the former railway land towards the New Town. Further land acquisition prompted a shift in focus so that Morrison Street was established as the key spine for urban renewal with the Conference Centre established as the ‘front door’ to the development.

Construction Partners:
Interior Design: Skakel and Skakel
Landscape Architects: Ian White Associates
Engineering Consultant: Arup

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.