Building Design Partnership

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Building Design Partnership (BDP) is a firm of architects employing over 800 staff in the UK and over 140 more internationally. It designs "2% of all the new, non residential building (and some of the housing) in the UK each year".^[1]

1 History
- 1.1 Foundation
  - 1.1.1 Professions represented in BDP offices in 1968[3]
- 1.2 Limited Company
2 Current locations of BDP Offices
3 Selected Projects
4 Image Gallery of BDP Projects
5 People who have worked for BDP
6 Notes
7 External Links

[edit] History

[edit] Foundation

The firm was founded in 1961 by George Grenfell Baines with architects, Bill White and John Wilkinson, quantity surveyor Arnold Towler and eight associate partners: Brian & Derek Cobb, Keith Ingham, Peter Renninson, David Rock, Lorrie Rossant, Keith N Scott and Sid Tasker. The associates were made full equity partners in 1964. Grenfell Baines was the first chairman. BDP was end the result of a series of experiments in profit sharing and multidisciplinary working begun by Grenfell Baines in 1941 with the Grenfell Baines Group. A 1962 policy statement committed BDP to “the principle of equal status for all professions”^[2]. The firm expanded rapidly over the following decades and had thirty partners and 700 staff by the time of Grenfell Baines’s retirement in 1974.

BDP’s principal offices, inherited from Grenfell Baines & Hargreaves, were in London, Manchester and Preston. By 1970, there were branch offices in Belfast, Glasgow and Guildford plus international offices in Memphis and Rome.

[edit] Professions represented in BDP offices in 1968^[3]

Architects
Town Planners
Cost Consultants
Civil Engineers
Structural Engineers
Electrical Engineers
Heating Engineers
Ventilating Engineers
Landscape Architects
Traffic Engineers
Graphic Designers
Industrial Designers
Sociologists

[edit] Limited Company

BDP ceased to be a partnership in 1997 and is now a limited company.

[edit] Current locations of BDP Offices

[edit] Selected Projects

Rebuiding of Aldershot Military Town (1961-69)
University of Surrey, Guildford (1965-68)
University of Bradford (1965-71)
Preston bus station (1968-69)
Blackburn Central Area Redevelopment (1965-77)
Halifax HQ, Halifax (1973 & refurbisment 2002)
Brent Cross, London (1976)
Channel Tunnel Terminal, Folkestone (1973-5, revived 1987-93)
Ealing Broadway Centre (1979-85)
Kingston upon Hull Crown Court (1988-90)
All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon (1992-2000)
Reconstruction of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (1996-2000) with Dixon Jones
Cribbs Causeway, Bristol (1998)
Adam Opel Campus, Ruesselsheim, Germany (1998)
Niketown, London (1999)
Connolly Station, Dublin (1999)
Vasco da Gama Centre, Lisbon (1999)
Olympic Tennis Centre, Sydney (2000)
Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow (2001)
Manchester Piccadilly Station concourse (2001-02)
Sao Gabriel & Sao Rafael Towers, Lisbon (2001-04)
iceSheffield Sheffield(2002)
TresAguas Centre, Madrid (2002)
Royal Albert Hall, South Porch (2003)
Nanoscience Centre, University of Cambridge (2003)
BBC Mailbox, Birmingham (2004)
Olympic Tennis Centre, Athens (2004)
Melbourne City Waterfront (2006)
Aintree Racecourse, Merseyside (2007)

[edit] Image Gallery of BDP Projects

University of Surrey, Guildford (1965-68)	Preston bus station (1968-69)	Halifax HQ, Halifax (1973 & refurbisment 2002)	Cribbs Causeway, Bristol (1998)
Glasgow Science Centre (2001)	Manchester Piccadilly Station (2001-02)	BBC Mailbox (2004)