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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] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A partnership is a type of business entity in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business undertaking in which all have invested. ... An architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ...

History

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. Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Professor Sir George Grenfell-Baines OBE DL (30 April 1908 to 9 May 2003) was an English architect and town planner. ... for building and structual design see; Architect Architects are a metal band from Brighton in southern England. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... David Rock, born 1929, is an English architect and graphic designer, twice RIBA vice-president (1986-87 & 1995-97) and RIBA president (1997-99). ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Interdisciplinary work is that which integrates concepts across different disciplines. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...

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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

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Limited Company

BDP ceased to be a partnership in 1997 and is now a limited company. For the band, see 1997 (band). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Limited liability company. ...

Current locations of BDP Offices

Building Design Partnership Ltd., UK

• Belfast
• Birmingham
• Bristol
• Glasgow
• Liverpool
• London
• Manchester
• Sheffield
• Winchester

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Building Design Partnership (Ireland) Ltd., Ireland

• Dublin

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Groupe 6, France

• Paris
• Grenoble

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BDP Advanced Technologies Ltd.

• Manchester

BDP Advanced Technologies (Asia Pacific) Ltd.

• Singapore

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)
• Channel Tunnel Terminal, Folkestone (1973-5, revived 1987-93)
• Brent Cross, London (1976)
• 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)
• Scottish Widows, Edinburgh (1998) Number 93 of Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings
• 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)

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Image Gallery of BDP Projects

People who have worked for BDP

• Leon Krier
• Michael Webb of Archigram

Leon Krier (born 1946) is an architect and urban planner from Luxembourg. ... Archigram was an avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s and based at the Architectural Association, London that was futurist, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical projects. ...

Notes

1. ^ BDP website retrieved 2 March 2007
2. ^ White, Bill (1987), The Spirit Of BDP, Preston: BDP, p 22.
3. ^ BDP (1968), Experience in Industrial Building, Preston: BDP.

External links

• http://www.bdp.co.uk