Architect Terry Farrell, who designed the Mi-6 building, died

from the UK, Sir Terry Farrell, died at the age of 87. He was considered the best among professionals.

The Farrells architectural bureau, founded by him, announced his death «with deep sadness.» The management said that Terry was often called an individualist, radical and non-conformist, and he liked it.

The typical style of his buildings is postmodern, pretentious and playful. Among his well-known projects are the building of the Mi-6 London Intelligence and the headquarters of the morning of the ITV of the 1980s of TV-am, with giant eggs for eggs, which are filed for breakfast installed on the roof.

Sir Terry was born in 1938. Like many architects of his generation, he was amazed at America's modernist buildings. He encountered them when he traveled to the United States in a scholarship in the 1960s.

In 1965, he began to work with the deceased now Nicholas Grimshw, which became another international superstar of architecture. At first, the couple’s practice was concentrated on elegant, minimalistic buildings with a small number of or without jewelry, in which the function of building dictated its shape.

One of their first projects was a residential building with aluminum facing in the north of London. Built for the housing association. He was known to the taxi drivers as “a bank from Sardin”, and both architects and their families rented apartments there.
In 1980, they broke up, and Farrell founded his own workshop.

The breakthrough happened in 1982, when the TV-Am headquarters was converted into a warehouse on the shore of the channel in the Kamen region in the north of London. Style = «Text-align: Justify;»> He was colorful and extravagant, full of witty links to the architecture of the past, as an imitation of the Japanese temple, a Mesopotamian zikguard (a temple tower) and a huge castle stone carved from a multi-shaped arch from a brightly colored trumpet steel entrance.

But the most attention of the public attracted giant eggs for eggs, which could be used as breakfast installed on the roof with a view of the channel. He described the project as a “grandiose achievement”, and the Royal Academy called it “pop, thanks to the abundance of metaphors.”

Xrust, architect Terry Farrell, who designed the Mi-6 building, died.