I’m sorry to see that Terry Farrell has died, coincidentally in the same month as Nick Grimshaw, with whom he worked closely for fifteen years, but whose paths diverged very radically thereafter, so much so that it was hard to imagine that they had ever worked together.

In finding out more about Farrell for an article about the Farrell Centre (see below), I found a rather touching quotation about how they had first met in 1961:

For the first few days at the LCC, the architect at the neighbouring desk said not a word to me, nor I to him.  Eventually I mentioned my dissatisfaction with the organisation of the office, and he expressed his sympathy and suggested we talk over lunch.  That marked the beginning of my close friendship with Nicholas Grimshaw.  Together we formed a maverick but pretty insignificant unit within the vast bureaucratic set-up of this local government organisation.   Nick was working on the Crystal Palace recreation ground, while I was given a job of my own: the Blackwall Tunnel buildings, which engaged me with the Thames, a new river crossing and the renewal of East London.[1]

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/june-2023/a-bid-to-inspire-future-architects/

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[1] Terry Farrell (London: RIBA Publishing, 2020), p.25.