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Sir Terry Farrell portrait © Phil Sayer

Henley Royal Regatta HQ (1986) - Grade II Image © Farrells

SIS / MI6 Building, Vauxhall (1994) Image © ArchDaily

C20 is saddened to hear of the death of Sir Terry Farrell (1938-2025), an architect who traversed myriad styles - from Modernism to High-Tech and PoMo - and was a champion of conservation, urbanism and contextual design.
We’re raising a glass, or perhaps that should be a TV-am eggcup, in his honour.

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Portrait of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw © Phil Sayer

Waterloo International Terminal, Lambeth (1988-93) Submitted for listing (2024)

The Society is saddened to hear of the death of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (1939-2025). An inspirational architect and always a gentlemen, his buildings are beautiful, original and inventive solutions to elegantly analysed briefs. We can think of no finer tribute than listing his Waterloo Int. Terminal.

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A really fine exhibition at @lambetharchives.bsky.social !

10.09.2025 07:42 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

A futuristic model of Lambeth with sweeping clean lines - the future as seen in the past of Waterloo.

The new free exhibition at Lambeth Archives looks at the ambitious world of Ted Hollamby's Department of Architecture and Planning, 1965-1980. Modernism, the future and architectural merit, open until the 26th.

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Architect's drawing of Clapham Manor nursery garden

Architect's drawing of housing for elderly complex

🚨Today's blog post is on the new exhibition 'Building "Homes for Tomorrow": Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980' at @lambetharchives.bsky.social. The images below (a nursery school and a housing scheme for elderly people) capture the era's ideals.
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Hi Nina, you are welcome to drop by Lambeth Archives to research this or send your enquiry to us at archives@lambeth.gov.uk and we can get back to you right away! Thanks!

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The image shows a wedding photo of a bride, Miss B. Mortimer and her wedding party from 1 April 1951 in Kennington Road (to the right the bridesmaid and father of the bride).

Opening on 15 July A Vanishing Kennington, an exhibition of the Manning Photographers studio archive, now passed to Lambeth Archives, it charts the lives of Lambeth residents and businesses over seventy years from nearly half a million photos. #lambetharchives #photography #lambeth #southlondon

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