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Maggie's Centre founder Charles Jencks to open his house as a museum

2017-12-27T09:45:00-05:00

Architectural historian Charles Jencks has agreed to turn his house into a museum, according to BD. Located in London's Holland Park, the early Victorian stucco villa has interiors designed by Michael Graves and other alterations by Terry Farrell. An important example of post-modern design, the decision to open it up to the public has support from both Farrell and Norman Foster.

Jencks is best known for his Maggie's Centres. As the founder, Jencks recruits renowned architects to create spaces that offer free comprehensive support for those affected by cancer. Their most recent center, designed by Steven Holl, opened up earlier this month in Central London.

Interior by Farrell. Thematic House.

The Kensigton & Chelsea council have approved the proposal which would allow Jencks' Thematic House to be open to the public, by appointment, from April and December during the week for limited hours. It will remain his residence but visitors will be given access to archives of his own work, a...

Sir Terry Farrell faces off against Renzo Piano over Paddington Place plans

2016-01-13T04:00:00-05:00

...the Paddington Place scheme – a huge development around the eponymous London station intended to include a 72-storey tower designed by Renzo Piano... [has] drawn the ire of Sir Terry Farrell, the famous architect and local resident who was also, slightly awkwardly, previously in charge of the developers’ masterplan for the area. Farrell, known for designing the MI6 building on the Thames and Charing Cross station, made his views known in a dense, 1,500-word objection...

Does London need a 'planning revolution?'

2014-03-31T13:52:00-04:00

Britain’s decades-long planning “chaos” has left London a city of great individual buildings, such as the Gherkin and the Shard, standing in a sea of “woeful” architecture, the Government’s design czar said today. Marylebone-based architect Sir Terry Farrell called for a “revolution” in the planning system, to end the culture of Nimbyism and put the creation of well designed places to live, work and shop at the heart of policymaking.

Farrell 's remarks certainly aren't limited to contemporary architecture in London: “If you dump yourself in any town centre and look at what the end of the 20th century and start of the 21st century has brought, it is woeful.”