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Friday, November 30, 2018

Doll's house by architect of MI6 HQ up for auction

Sir Terry Farrell’s son, who inspired design when he was eight, says he may bid for item

A doll’s house designed in 1981 by Sir Terry Farrell, the architect of the MI6 headquarters, partly to send up the hi-tech architectural style employed by his rivals Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, is to be auctioned.

The 176cm-tall structure is made up of angular platforms, escape hatches and landing pads and features space toys and figures. It was inspired by a sketch by Farrell’s son Max, then eight, who suggested a “space city”.

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