Terry Farrell Books

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
Featured here are the London-based urban design projects of Terry Farrell. Each chapter presents a series of recent projects which have in common an indentifiable urban design theme, with an accompanying text detailing its history and urban context.
SYNOPSIS:
For Terry Farrell urban design should be based on a number of principles: a notion of continuum with the history and traditions of a specific area, a priority given to the pedestrian and the experience of the street and a desire to create new places with an identity to encourage the return of the diversity of traditional urban life. Each chapter of this illustrated book presents a series of recent projects which have in common an identifiable urban design theme with an accompanying text detailing its history and urban context. They include the City and Cheapside (with the Paternoster masterplan), the Barbican and London Wall, the River Thames, market halls, railway stations (including Charing Cross), large public institutions (the South Bank), London's natural landscape, parks, squares and open spaces, the private world and outer villages.
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION 6
Ken Powell
CHAPTER ONE
THE CITY/CHEAPSIDE 12
Mansion House and Poultry 18
City of London 1984-1987
Paternoster Area, St. Paul's 24
City of London 1989-1992
CHAPTER TWO
THE CITY/LONDON WALL 34
Alban Gate 40
City of London 1986-1992
Moor House 50
City of London 1986-1991
CHAPTER THREE
THE RIVER THAMES 54
Vauxhall Cross 60
London Borough of Lambeth 1982-1992
East Greenwich 72
London Borough of Greenwich 1988
Brentford Dock 76
London Borough of Hounslow 1988
Hungerford Bridge 80
City of Westminster and London Borough of Lambeth
CHAPTER FOUR
MARKET HALLS 84
Tobacco Dock 92
London Borough of Tower Hamlets 1985-1990
Spitalfields Market 100
London Borough of Tower Hamlets 1991
CHAPTER FIVE
RAILWAY STATIONS AND RAILWAY LAND 106
Charing Cross 112
City of Westminster 1985-1990
King's Cross Railway Lands 126
London Boroughs of Camden and Islington 1987
CHAPTER SIX
LARGE INSTITUTIONS 134
South Bank Arts Centre 140
London Borough of Lambeth 1984-1992
Bloomsbury Hospitals 148
City of Westminster and London Borough of Camden 1988
CHAPTER SEVEN
GREEN LONDON: PARKS, SQUARES, GARDENS 154
Comyn Ching Triangle 160
London Borough of Camden 1978-1985
St John's Gardens 168
City of Westminster 1991-1992
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE PRIVATE WORLD 174
Crafts Council Gallery 178
City of Westminster 1980-1981
Lloyds Bank, Pall Mall 182
City of Westminster 1989-199 1
Carlton Gardens 190
City of Westminster 1988
Lombard Street 196
City of London 1991-1992
CHAPTER NINE
OUTER VILLAGES 204
Wimbledon Town Centre 210
London Borough of Merton 1987-1988
Chiswick Park 214
London Borough of Hounslow 1989-1992
CHAPTER TEN
LEARNING FROM LONDON 224
Masterplan and New Conference/Exhibition Centre 244
Lothian Road, Edinburgh 1989-1992
Masterplan for Mixed Uses 256
Brindleyplace, Birmingham 1990-1992
Mixed Use Renovation and Redevelopment Scheme 266
Grey Street, Newcastle 1991-1992
Masterplan for Mixed Uses 270
Quayside, Newcastle 1991-1992
Airport Staff and Administration Centre 274
Frankfurt Airport, Germany 1989
Masterplan for Mixed Uses 278
Quarry Hill, Leeds 1989-1992
Consulate and British Council Offices 288
Hong Kong 1992-
LIST OF BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS 298
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 300

I used this book in a unit teaching on fractured fairy tales. I had my students follow the story of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs. They loved the trial as depicted in this story. It certainly helped free up their minds to write their own alternative ending to the trial. I highly recommend this book for any teacher trying to teach a creative writing lesson

Today's sequels stink. Karen Black and Charlton Heston (R.I.P.) make this one work. John Cacavas wrote a good score as well.

The best of the 1970s disaster films was undoubtedly 1972's THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. It spawned a series of other disaster movies, giving jobs to all kinds of special effects people and half of Hollywood throughout that decade. People loved the mayhem back then.

AIRPORT 1975 didn't have as many Oscar winners or the symbolic storyline that grabbed so many people as POSEIDON did, but it is filled with enough stars to make it worthwhile. Charlton Heston is in a Charlton Heston role. You have two actresses from the classic SUNSET BOULEVARD, Nancy Olson as the mother of the sick girl (Linda Blair!) and Gloria Swanson as Gloria Swanson (that's Linda Harrison, the incredibly hot Nova from the original PLANET OF THE APES as Gloria's assistant--but it's stewardess Karen Black who gets Charlton Heston in this movie). Normal Fell (Mr. Roper from TV's "Three Company") and Jerry Stiller (from "Seinfeld" and "King of Queens") as loud tipsy passengers. Erik Estrada is the navigator and Roy Thinnes ends up literally in "The Outer Limits" as the doomed co-pilot. Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Larry Storch, Syd Cesear, not to mention George Kennedy, Susan Clark and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

But even if you're not a movie buff this particular disaster is fun to watch: you'll recognize many scenes that would end up in the 1980 spoof, AIRPLANE! (I'm laughing right now as I watch it as I see scenes taken directly from the movie).

There are also some great shots of a Boeing 747 flying THROUGH the Rocky Mountains.

I saw this movie first run in 1974 and never get tired of watching it. Karen Black is amazing and very believable as the stewardess that is left to fly the plane. It is rare in disaster films to see such a strong female character that is not nasty or demanding. She really carries the film. Charlton Heston, plays his normal stoic self. The disaster itself and the photpgraphy is very good. Most of the all star cast are passengers; Gloria Swanson looks fabulous in her last film. She's very classy playing herself, Susan Clark, Linda Blair, Sid Caesar, Augusta Summerland (who was Heston's co-star in Planet of the Apes billed as Linda Harrison), Nancy Olson (Miss Swanson co star in Sunset Blvd), Martha Scott, Myrna Loy and Helen Reddy. Also stars George Kennedy (who starred in all 4 Airport films), Dana Andrews, Beverly Garland, Roy Thinnes and Erik Estrada. It is ashame they do not make films with such stellar casts any more.

Somepeople say airport '77 was beter then airport '75 but airport '75 has beter acting beter sotry and the whole story and movie was the BEST. If you are planing on seeing airport '77 it's fine as it self but i'd see airport '75 if i were you. Both are fine but '75 is beter by a lot.

Two nuns watch as silent screen diva Gloria Swanson makes her way through an airport, surrounded by the press. "I believe it's one of those Hollywood persons," observes Sister Martha Scott. "You mean an actress?" asks Sister Helen Reddy. Scott shudders, rolls her eyes and replies, "Or worse." Airport 1975 is proof that nothing's worse than "those Hollywood persons" who grace the bonanza of Bad Movies We Love known as "disaster films," of which this is the funniest example. As the parade of passengers continues--Myrna Loy, Susan Clark, Sid Caesar, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Roy Thinnes, Erik Estrada and Karen Black, just for starters--you keep thinking, it can't get any more cut-rate than this. Then Linda Blair rolls on in a wheelchair!

Once the big bird takes off, the laughs soar too: Sister Reddy takes guitar in hand to serenade the ailing Blair in a high camp sing-along that's even hootier than the scene in Airplane! which was meant to spoof it.

Though Airport 1975 makes a hopeless attempt to appear updated--when a man calls a novice stewardess "a teenager," she shoots back, "It's Ms. Teenager, please. I'm emancipated and highly skilled in kung fu"--it's really just Arthur Hailey's old chestnut about the plane that must be piloted back to earth by--you guessed it--Someone Who Doesn't Know How to Fly! Clearly desperate to give the tired old plot device some added suspense, the geniuses here decided to turn the controls over to Karen Black, who not only has no clue about piloting a jet, she's also cross-eyed. (In a delirious in-joke, it's Dana Andrews who turns up as the pilot of the tiny plane that crashes into our heroine's 747 to set this plot into motion. In The Crowded Sky, Andrews played the pilot whose jet was struck; then, in Zero Hour, he played Black's role.)

When the passengers hear that Black's flying the plane, they prepare to die. Swanson tosses diamonds out of her jewelry case and stuffs the taped notes for her autobiography into it instead, explaining, "It's bomb-proofed, the insurance people insisted upon it." (It's the only "bomb-proof" thing in this movie.) As Black's troubles mount, her boyfriend back on earth, pilot Charlton Heston, knows that someone's gotta go up there and bring that plane down. "You mean to tell me you're going to try to transfer a pilot into a 747 in flight?" asks an incredulous extra. "It's going to be like trying to put a raw egg back into its shell!" Heston, however, seems to know that he's nothing if not a raw egg.

When Heston helicopters by and prepares to, literally, drop in, Black acts and acts as she reaches out her arms to help pull him aboard--and then makes one of those actor's choices that distinguishes her from all the others who've played this part: She sticks out her tongue! Then she tops even that by taking a bullhorn to run amok in the aisles shouting, "There's nothing to be alarmed about, nothing!" You think, it can't get any goofier than this, but it can, and it does. The grand finale? The sight of 69-year-old Myrna Loy hurtling down the emergency slide exit, a high point of unintentional hilarity. Too good to be true, it's exceeded by 77-year-old Gloria Swanson shooting down at warp speed, her dress hiking up high enough to show a tantalizing flash of white undies.

Today's sequels stink. Karen Black and Charlton Heston (R.I.P.) make this one work. John Cacavas wrote a good score as well.

The best of the 1970s disaster films was undoubtedly 1972's THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. It spawned a series of other disaster movies, giving jobs to all kinds of special effects people and half of Hollywood throughout that decade. People loved the mayhem back then.

AIRPORT 1975 didn't have as many Oscar winners or the symbolic storyline that grabbed so many people as POSEIDON did, but it is filled with enough stars to make it worthwhile. Charlton Heston is in a Charlton Heston role. You have two actresses from the classic SUNSET BOULEVARD, Nancy Olson as the mother of the sick girl (Linda Blair!) and Gloria Swanson as Gloria Swanson (that's Linda Harrison, the incredibly hot Nova from the original PLANET OF THE APES as Gloria's assistant--but it's stewardess Karen Black who gets Charlton Heston in this movie). Normal Fell (Mr. Roper from TV's "Three Company") and Jerry Stiller (from "Seinfeld" and "King of Queens") as loud tipsy passengers. Erik Estrada is the navigator and Roy Thinnes ends up literally in "The Outer Limits" as the doomed co-pilot. Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Larry Storch, Syd Cesear, not to mention George Kennedy, Susan Clark and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

But even if you're not a movie buff this particular disaster is fun to watch: you'll recognize many scenes that would end up in the 1980 spoof, AIRPLANE! (I'm laughing right now as I watch it as I see scenes taken directly from the movie).

There are also some great shots of a Boeing 747 flying THROUGH the Rocky Mountains.

I saw this movie first run in 1974 and never get tired of watching it. Karen Black is amazing and very believable as the stewardess that is left to fly the plane. It is rare in disaster films to see such a strong female character that is not nasty or demanding. She really carries the film. Charlton Heston, plays his normal stoic self. The disaster itself and the photpgraphy is very good. Most of the all star cast are passengers; Gloria Swanson looks fabulous in her last film. She's very classy playing herself, Susan Clark, Linda Blair, Sid Caesar, Augusta Summerland (who was Heston's co-star in Planet of the Apes billed as Linda Harrison), Nancy Olson (Miss Swanson co star in Sunset Blvd), Martha Scott, Myrna Loy and Helen Reddy. Also stars George Kennedy (who starred in all 4 Airport films), Dana Andrews, Beverly Garland, Roy Thinnes and Erik Estrada. It is ashame they do not make films with such stellar casts any more.

Somepeople say airport '77 was beter then airport '75 but airport '75 has beter acting beter sotry and the whole story and movie was the BEST. If you are planing on seeing airport '77 it's fine as it self but i'd see airport '75 if i were you. Both are fine but '75 is beter by a lot.

Two nuns watch as silent screen diva Gloria Swanson makes her way through an airport, surrounded by the press. "I believe it's one of those Hollywood persons," observes Sister Martha Scott. "You mean an actress?" asks Sister Helen Reddy. Scott shudders, rolls her eyes and replies, "Or worse." Airport 1975 is proof that nothing's worse than "those Hollywood persons" who grace the bonanza of Bad Movies We Love known as "disaster films," of which this is the funniest example. As the parade of passengers continues--Myrna Loy, Susan Clark, Sid Caesar, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Roy Thinnes, Erik Estrada and Karen Black, just for starters--you keep thinking, it can't get any more cut-rate than this. Then Linda Blair rolls on in a wheelchair!

Once the big bird takes off, the laughs soar too: Sister Reddy takes guitar in hand to serenade the ailing Blair in a high camp sing-along that's even hootier than the scene in Airplane! which was meant to spoof it.

Though Airport 1975 makes a hopeless attempt to appear updated--when a man calls a novice stewardess "a teenager," she shoots back, "It's Ms. Teenager, please. I'm emancipated and highly skilled in kung fu"--it's really just Arthur Hailey's old chestnut about the plane that must be piloted back to earth by--you guessed it--Someone Who Doesn't Know How to Fly! Clearly desperate to give the tired old plot device some added suspense, the geniuses here decided to turn the controls over to Karen Black, who not only has no clue about piloting a jet, she's also cross-eyed. (In a delirious in-joke, it's Dana Andrews who turns up as the pilot of the tiny plane that crashes into our heroine's 747 to set this plot into motion. In The Crowded Sky, Andrews played the pilot whose jet was struck; then, in Zero Hour, he played Black's role.)

When the passengers hear that Black's flying the plane, they prepare to die. Swanson tosses diamonds out of her jewelry case and stuffs the taped notes for her autobiography into it instead, explaining, "It's bomb-proofed, the insurance people insisted upon it." (It's the only "bomb-proof" thing in this movie.) As Black's troubles mount, her boyfriend back on earth, pilot Charlton Heston, knows that someone's gotta go up there and bring that plane down. "You mean to tell me you're going to try to transfer a pilot into a 747 in flight?" asks an incredulous extra. "It's going to be like trying to put a raw egg back into its shell!" Heston, however, seems to know that he's nothing if not a raw egg.

When Heston helicopters by and prepares to, literally, drop in, Black acts and acts as she reaches out her arms to help pull him aboard--and then makes one of those actor's choices that distinguishes her from all the others who've played this part: She sticks out her tongue! Then she tops even that by taking a bullhorn to run amok in the aisles shouting, "There's nothing to be alarmed about, nothing!" You think, it can't get any goofier than this, but it can, and it does. The grand finale? The sight of 69-year-old Myrna Loy hurtling down the emergency slide exit, a high point of unintentional hilarity. Too good to be true, it's exceeded by 77-year-old Gloria Swanson shooting down at warp speed, her dress hiking up high enough to show a tantalizing flash of white undies.

Tons of movies are being made today based on television shows from the recent past. Well, at least it's recent to me. CHARLIES ANGELS, MCHALES NAVY, SGT. BILKO and more have made the transfer over the past few years. And there are more on the way. But for now, let's look at S.W.A.T.

The old show had a hardened veteran in Steve Forest as Hondo, leading an elite team of police officers into harms way, solving situations that regular officers couldn't handle on their own. The group became known and the fans began to love each of their favorite S.W.A.T. team member.

This movie does the same thing, with one exception. Gone are the days when police officers were respected and well liked. They have been replaced with images of police beating men brutally and without mercy. They have been made out to be the bad guys more than the bad guys by the press. And with that in mind, we begin to understand the theme here, the underlying current laid out by the Capt. Fuller (Larry Poindexter). They need a team that is special, that can get the job done, but also a team that can garner the respect and admiration of the whole city.

The main story revolves around an S.W.A.T. member, or ex member, named Jim Street (Colin Farrell). When his partner goes down for disobeying orders and getting a hostage shot, Street stays on the force, being subjected to the lowest duty possible for a man of action, taking care of the cage. There, he cleans boots, checks out guns and waits for the day he'll get a chance to prove himself once more. Had he turned on his partner, he would have walked and stayed with the team. But now....this.

Six months pass and a new team is being assembled. Brought in to shake things up and train the team is Sgt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson). A veteran of the original teams in their beginning, Hondo is brought back to whip into shape a new team, the team that they are looking for to not only get the job done, but to look good doing it.

Hondo recruits his own team, putting his reputation and job on the line for them, and sets out to train his team. Included are L.L.Cool Jay, Josh Charles, Michelle Rodriquez, Brain Van Holt and Farrell. Hondo does get the team up and running and it doesn't take long for them to see action, as does the audience.

A converging storyline follows a foreign mobster who has been arrested for a broken tail light. Once recognized, he is about to be escorted to prison. Along his walk into the jail, with the assistance of the ever anxious press, he calls out that he will give $100 million to anyone who breaks him free. With most of the city contemplating the idea and with gang bangers looking for easy money, the attacks begin.

Does he get rescued? Does he go to prison? Does the S.W.A.T. team gel? Watch and see in this action packed film.

I never saw this movie in theaters, but after watching it on TV i had to buy it, it has a lot of fun scenes and is generally good.

I would have rated this as 5 stars if it was released in the unrated version which what my DVD is. Transfer was very good.

This a better film than what most people will lead you to believe although not spectacular it is very entertaining in its own right. Has some subpar acting and a weak dialouge, but if you like action and colin farell then you should see it.

S.W.A.T. DVD

Samuel L. Jackson stars as the leader of a S.W.A.T team with Colin Farrell as his assistant in a high action, thrill a minute movie with more exotic guns and other weapons than you can count. Supposedly a very realistic movie, I wouldn't know, I`ve never been a member of a a S.W.A.T team and wouldn't want to be either.

The Team escorts an international criminal to prison who has publicly offered a very large reward ($100 million) to anyone who can get him free. Highly recommended to fans of Samuel L. Jackson and S.W.A.T teams.

Gunner March, 2008

First & foremost, let me state that I dislike Post-Modernism as an orthodox style. That said, this book in an interesting walk through both the design process as a whole (sketch to model to house) and the thought patterns of Post-Modernism. Not really for the casual reader. Good illustrations; good text. The title should read "How WE Designed A House".