Sir Terry Farrell: 'I have always struggled from crisis to crisis'
Maverick architect Sir Terry Farrell on humble beginnings, championing social mobility and living in a factory loft 13 December 2020 • 5:00am ‘I was brought up in Newcastle in a council estate. It influenced me a lot: I learnt to use the class system’ Internationally acclaimed architect Sir Terry Farrell is renowned for his exuberant post-modernist buildings such as the MI6 headquarters, the TV-am studios in Camden – declared Britain’s most maverick building – and Hong Kong’s Peak Tower. An urban planner with a reputation for contextual and inclusive design, he also created th...