Founders Place, London
2002 - ongoing

Terry Farrell and Partners' vision for Founders Court delivers a vibrant new neighbourhood development in Lambeth. The scheme incorporates affordable housing, nursery facilities for key health workers at St. Thomas' Hospital, short-stay accommodation for parents of sick children and a corner shop.
The mixed use brief provides for separate blocks linked by a unifying public area. Features of the development will be sensitivity to urban problems associated with the existing site, using innovative, workable solutions. Significant elements include: a landmark entrance, landscaped and traffic-calmed areas, measures to minimise noise and provision for car parking.

The Founders Place development is a tremendous opportunity to contribute to the regeneration of Lambeth. Farrell's scheme seeks to create an innovative, contemporary and vibrant new quarter that repairs the existing grain and knits seamlessly into the surroundings with new linkages to the hospital and Lambeth. It will deliver a new neighbourhood, with a central focus, benefiting the staff, patients (and their families) of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust and, just as importantly, the wider community.
As one of the largest employers in the borough, the hospital has been instrumental in influencing development in this part of Lambeth since it was relocated from Southwark in 1871. Following severe bomb damage in the Second World War, the hospital took advantage of the opportunity and expanded and developed. Now, some 60 years later, this groundbreaking development again allows the NHS Trust the opportunity to keep abreast of the challenges and demands it faces in the 21st century by building the very best accommodation and facilities to ensure delivery of first class patient care.