Spies, eggcups and penthouses: Sir Terry Farrell’s best buildings – in pictures

Terry Farrell was a British architect and urban designer, here photographed at his home in London – a converted factory that originally housed his architectural practice

In 1965, he set up in practice with his longtime friend Nicholas Grimshaw. During the next 15 years they had some notable successes but progressively their interests diverged. Farrell and Grimshaw’s Herman Miller Factory in Bath, completed in 1976, was a landmark of British hi-tech architecture

125 Park Road, Regent’s Park, London, by Farrell and Grimshaw, 1970

In 1980, he founded his own company, Terry Farrell & Partners, and had early success as a forerunner in the postmodern movement with buildings such as the TV-am studios by Camden Lock, London. As a reference to the breakfast television filmed there, the building is topped with a dozen eggcups

Embankment Place, City of Westminster, London, 1990

The Secret Intelligence Service (or MI6) building, Vauxhall Cross, London. It is blown up at the end of the James Bond film Spectre

125 London Wall, AKA the Alban Gate office development, one of the key buildings of the postmodernist movement, opened in 1992

During the 1990s recession, Farrell found work in east Asia and set up an office in Hong Kong. This is his Peak Tower project, 1995

Hong Kong’s West Kowloon station, 2018

The Deep Submarium, Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, 2002

Guangzhou South station in China, 2010

An aerial view of the KK100 skyscraper in Shenzhen, China, completed in 2011

The Kennedy Town public swimming pool, Hong Kong, 2011

2 Marsham Street, Home Office building, London, completed 2005

Built in 1904, Lots Road power station in London has now been converted into luxury apartments, part of the Chelsea Waterfront residential development designed by Farrell