Terry Farrell (architect) - Definition and Overview

Vauxhall Cross building, better known as the home of MI6

Sir Terry Farrell (born 1939 in Newcastle) is a leading British architect. His typical style is a combination of high tech and post-modernism. His buildings frequently include jokes that are a hallmark of post-modernism: in the TV-am building, the roof has painted egg cups along the roof, a reference not only to the building being used for breakfast tv, but also performing the function that urns would on a classical building.

Farrell graduated with a first class degree from Newcastle University School of Architecture and founded his first practice in 1965.

Selected buildings

• Blackwall Tunnel Ventilation Towers, London - 1962 (The south tower now sits inside the Millennium Dome and is responsible for the hole in the Dome's roof)
• Clifton Nurseries, Covent Garden, London - 1981
• TV-am building, Camden Town, London - 1981 -1982
• MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall Cross, London
• Embankment Place at Charing Cross Station in London - 1990
• The Peak Tower, Hong Kong - 1995
• British Consulate & British Council building, Hong Kong - 1997
• International Centre for Life, Newcastle - 1999
• The Deep aquarium or 'submarium', Hull - 2001
• Inchon International Airport, Seoul - 2002

References

• Article (http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=77652004) in the Scotsman newspaper.

External links

• Terry Farrell and Partners (http://www.terryfarrell.co.uk/)