Allied Irish Bank, Queen Street, London. 1982-1985.

This infill office building in the City of London was to provide a banking hall and office accommodation on a very sensitive site in the Garlick conservation area, and close to Wren's St James' Garlickhithe Church. It was designed with two pavilion-type projecting bays at the front linked by the ground-level porch and roof-level boardroom, in order to preserve the existing rhythm of the street. The exterior is clad in pink granite with a heavy rusticated granite plinth, marking Sir Terry Farrell's first venture into stone, and the beginning of a move away from the glass curtain-walling which dominated new buildings in the City during the previous two decades. At the time of construction in 1982, the thin-wall cladding system was new. Internal spaces are virtually column-free, with minimum ceiling heights to confirm with St Paul's Cathedral heights requirements. Lift lobbies and cloakrooms are decorated in granite, marble and stainless steel.