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September 29, 1999

British architect wins $150 million aquarium job

Journal staff

The Deep
"The Deep," an aquarium now under construction in England, was designed by Terry Farrell & Partners, who was chosen on Tuesday by the Seattle Aquarium Society board to design the new $150 million Pacific Northwest Aquarium in Seattle.

Farrell, whose firm is based in London, has teamed up with local firms Mithun Partners, Weinstein/Copeland and Streeter & Associates for the project. For exhibit design, the aquarium society selected the Boston-based firm of Lyons Zaremba.

The other teams competing for the aquarium project were NBBJ and San Francisco-based EHDD in association with Hewitt Architects. The other exhibit design finalists were BIOS and The Portico Croup, both from Seattle.

The new aquarium will stretch from Pier 59 to Pier 63 and expand from its current size of 68,000 square feet to 200,000 square feet. Construction will start in 2002 and the first two phases will open by 2005.

Farrell won the American Institute of Architects urban design award in 1994. His other recent projects include the British National Aquarium in London (which has not been constructed yet) and a genetics lab for the University of Newcastle, England.




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