Nicholas Grimshaw, 85, Dies; British Architect Known for High-Tech Designs
He melded his country’s history of engineering and industrial design with a modern sensibility to help shape the face of 21st-century Britain.
Among Mr. Grimshaw’s most idiosyncratic works was the Eden Project, opened in 2001, a building made up of a cluster of domes enclosing vast botanical gardens.Credit...Hufton + Crow, via Grimshaw
In recent decades, Mr. Grimshaw’s firm took on more commissions abroad. In New York, he designed Via Verde, a mixed-use, mixed-income housing complex in the South Bronx that opened in 2012.Credit...David Sunberg, via Grimshaw
Among his final endeavors was a project that embodied his commitment to innovative, sustainable design.
In 1976, he and Mr. Farrell had built a factory for Herman Miller, the furniture company, in Bath, England. At the time, it won praise for its flexible, spacious interiors.
Eventually Herman Miller left the factory, but Mr. Grimshaw wasn’t done. After the Bath School of Art and the Bath School of Design took it over, they commissioned him to remake it as an academic center. The renovated building opened in 2019.
“I’m getting more and more impassioned with sustainability,” he told The Financial Times in 2019. “Architects should be compelled to put in proposals for how their buildings could be converted later, from offices to flats for instance. We need to stop looking at buildings as expensive handbags on shelves.”
Terry Farrell, Whose Buildings Embodied Late 20th-Century Extremes, Dies at 87
Terry Farrell, a British architect and urban designer whose work encompassed the extremes of late 20th-century building styles, swinging from Modernist austerity to postmodernist cheek before landing somewhere in between, died on Sept. 28. He was 87.
Mr. Farrell’s headquarters for the British foreign intelligence service MI6 was described by one critic as a “wonderful paradox: the most conspicuous building in London for the most secretive organization.”Credit...Oli Scarff/Getty Images
Mr. Farrell at home in London in 2019. “My work these last 50 or so years has been heavily involved in creating a kinder, less doctrinaire world than that of the previous era of high Modernism,” he said.Credit...Christopher Owens/Contour by Getty Images 2014年，法雷爾先生發表了由英國政府委託撰寫的《法雷爾建築與建成環境評論》報告。報告提出了多項建議，其中包括建議城市設立一個“城市空間”，讓公眾可以了解並討論那些影響其環境的政策。 （法雷爾中心的設立初衷就是為了提供這樣的資源。） “Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment,”it proposed that cities create an “urban room” where members of the public could learn about and debate the policies shaping their environments. (The Farrell Centre was intended to be such a resource.)
Mr. Farrell designed attention-getting buildings like TV-am (1982), a broadcast center in London decorated with giant egg-cup finials.Credit...Richard Bryant/Arcaid Images
The Embankment Place office building in London was completed in 1990.Credit...Historic England/Heritage Images, via Getty Images
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It sits over the tracks and platforms of the Charing Cross railway station.Credit...Justin Kase/z12z, via Alamy
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