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Terry Farrell in Scotland: Review:
In the decade since Terry Farrell and Partners founded their architecture
office in
Scotland, three major buildings and two public squares have been designed
and constructed in the capital. This architecture book, illustrated in colour
throughout, explores the philosophy and implementation of responding to
context in creating sensitive, yet innovative and bold, interventions to
the design culture of a capital. The Exchange Financial District master
plan, won in competition in 1989, draws on Terry Farrell's enthusiasm for
"gentle architecture". The distinctive drum-like form of the Edinburgh
International Conference Centre landmarks the site and
forms a set piece within the urban mass.
At the heart of the Terry Farrell project is the triangular Conference
Square, which forms the main public space for the Conference Centre.
Nearby is a diversity of public spaces and walkways that resemble public
rooms and corridors within a building. Terry Farrell and Partners' master
plan
incorporates elements of contrast and surprise. For example, the angular
Sheraton Spa,
squeezed into an uncompromisingly small plot of land, provides a startling
visual juxtaposition with the circular Conference Centre. The driving
forces behind the Edinburgh master plan are historical continuity, the
integration of old and new, pedestrian access, and the quest for richness
and diversity. Terry Farrell and Partners' singular concept of urban
design allows an incremental approach that encourages the area to take
shape in its own way. Confronting the reality of the urban situation -
rather than prescribing utopian visions - is an integral part of Terry
Farrell and Partners's outlook.
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Feb 2004 News:
Terry Farrell: Design Tsar Chosen
Sir Terry began his new role as Edinburgh's 'design champion' on 03.02.04
by calling for a rethink of the city's streetscape
Terry Farrell - architect of some major Edinburgh projects - to be
'figurehead for the city's attempts to improve new architecture':
Riccardo Marini announced as Sir Terry Farrell's (Design Champion) officer
05.02.04; 20.01.04
Current Terry Farrell Building News:
Former Power Station site, London
The Lots Road Power Station development is to contain 821 homes & shops.
Two residential towers have been designed by Terry Farrell & Partners
either side of the redeveloped Lots Road Power Station, which was built
in 1904. In early 2006 Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott over-ruled a
previous planning refusal allowing the development to proceed.
Tallest buildings in Scotland
Office Tower and Flats Tower, Leith, by Terry Farrell & Partners
Edinburgh's Leith docks are set
to become a mini-Manhattan, complete with Scotland's two tallest buildings
and a Guggenheim museum. Forth Ports has revealed plans to build two 35-storey
towers as part of the regeneration of Leith port's Edinburgh Harbour. The
company is also in discussions with the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation
about building a museum at the port. The two towers would stretch 420 feet
into the air, making them three feet taller than the Millennium Tower at
Glasgow Science Centre - currently Scotland's tallest structure. They would
dwarf Scotland's previous tallest buildings, the 31-storey flats in Bluevale
Street and Whitevale Street in Glasgow's Gallowgate, which are both 298
feet tall
Edinburgh Walking
Tours
Edinburgh : back to index
Other buildings by the practice outwith Scotland include the new Home Office
headquarters
Do we need a design tsar?
Such as Terry Farrell? Reported in early 2002: Edinburgh should appoint
a Design Tsar to improve the standard of its new buildings – because much
of the city’s modern architecture is not good enough.
Feb 2002
Architecture Exhibition
25 Nov - 24 Dec 2002: RIAS, Edinburgh
Terry Farrell in Scotland
new book describing TFP's last decade of Scottish projects:
This small book gathers together Terry Farrell & Partners completed Scottish
works with competition entries and forthcoming projects. Many of the images
will be familiar to those who have read 'Ten Years Ten Cities: The Work
of Terry Farrell & Partners 1991-2001' but it was the most recent projects
that captivated me simply due to inclusion of images that have not yet been
aired: Ocean Point and the South-East wedge.
I was struck in 1997 when the Samsung Europe HQ was publicised that Farrell's
are very eclectic and seem refreshingly bereft of a fixed house style (unlike
the colonial signature architects - Frank Gehry et al - rolling depositions).
The Ocean Point however seems so different to the Dean, The Exchange and
the Sheraton Hotel Health Club. The South-East Wedge proposals are encouraging,
a new community based around a railway station. Many have opposed ANY eating
into the Green Belt but this area of plain farmland seems ripe for settlement.
Sitting on the Cockburn Cases Committee I try to encourage density in central
projects: I believe we all have a responsibility to increase populations
in the city, fully utilise brownfield sites and increase heights around
transport nodes. Terry Farrell & Partners's plans propose just this and
I repeat my request for architects to get involved in the proposed New Town
for East Lothian. (see the initial Editorial for December).
I encourage you to visit the Terry Farrell & Partners Exhibition at the
RIAS.
Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Terry Farrell: Inverness
Architect Terry Farrell has been commissioned to create a masterplan for
1,000 homes, shops, marina, hotel, school and leisure facilities at a disused
oil fabrication yard at Arderier, near Inverness.
Terry Farrell: Dundee
Dundee University has engaged Terry Farrell for the redevelopment of its
campus to the next stage. The architect, who designed Edinburgh International
Conference Centre, is taking a personal role in the university project.
Key buildings on the campus like the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
and the Queen Mother Building are almost finished, and work is about to
start on residences and a new faculty and teaching building.
Terry Farrell Architects has been retained to ensure that the redeveloped
campus matches the needs and aspirations of the community. Consultation
will form a big part of that process and the architect will give an open
presentation on the plans to staff, students and the wider community later
this month. Sir Terry has visited Dundee a number of times and is working
closely with Dundee City Council and Scottish Enterprise Tayside.
Sculptor and artist David Mach is developing ideas for a public work of
art based on the life sciences that could be incorporated into the campus
plan.
Sir Terry Farrell's open presentation takes place on 25 Apr in the Cooper
Gallery at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.
Apr 2005
Key Far East Project:
The Peak
Tower Hong Kong
1991-95
Terry Farrell, Architects
English Projects - UK Buildings:
Tobacco Dock
Terry Farrell & Company
1990
Pennington St, London E1
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Farrell
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