30/09/2025
First Nick Grimshaw, now his ex-partner has left the tecton building in short order.
Both feature in Bond movies, which says something of their peer status.
Having lived much of my adult life in & around his singular, bespoke buildings in London, Hong Kong & China (including working on an Alban Gate, London Wall phase), I above all, admire his exceptional range, from HiTech, to PoMo & back again, with an expressionist, DeCon-structive flurry.
Another giant of our field rests his tools.
Sir Terry Farrell, the UK’s leading architect-planner and postmodernist, has died aged 87