11 ducie street piccadilly manchester uk 1 services architecture engineering number of employees 950 website bdp website bdp formerly known as building design partnership is a firm of architects and engineers employing over 900 staff in the uk and internationally . contents 1 history 1.1 professions represented in bdp offices in 1968 5 2 current locations of bdp offices 2.1 building design partnership ltd. uk 2.2 building design partnership ireland ltd. ireland 2.3 bdp.khandekar netherlands 2.4 bdp ltd. china 2.5 bdp ltd. uae 2.6 bdp ltd. india 3 selected projects 4 image gallery of bdp projects 5 people who have worked for bdp 6 notes 7 external links history edit 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 n keith scott and sid tasker . the associates were made full equity partners in 1964 . grenfell baines was the first chairman . bdp was the end 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 30 partners and 700 staff by the time of grenfell baines s retirement in 1974 . the firm has been associated with a variety of large public and private projects such as the controversial bus station in preston lancashire that was designed by bdp s keith ingham and charles wilson and retail projects such as the liverpool one complex . 3 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 rome and johannesburg . bdp ceased to be a partnership in 1997 and became a limited company . citation needed as of 2016 bdp was reported to be the uk s third largest architecture firm with 950 employees . in march 2016 the japanese engineering firm nippon koei bought all of the stock of bdp for a total sale price of 102.2 million . 4 professions represented in bdp offices in 1968 5 edit architects town planners cost consultants civil engineers building services engineers structural engineers electrical engineers heating engineers ventilating engineers landscape architects traffic engineers graphic designers industrial designers sociologists current locations of bdp offices edit building design partnership ltd. uk edit birmingham bristol glasgow london manchester sheffield building design partnership ireland ltd. ireland edit dublin bdp.khandekar netherlands edit rotterdam bdp ltd. china edit shanghai bdp ltd. uae edit abu dhabi bdp ltd. india edit new dehli selected projects edit rebuilding 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 blackburn shopping centre 1965 77 bank house bank of england regional headquarters leeds 1969 71 halifax hq halifax 1973 & refurbishment 2002 channel tunnel terminal folkestone 1973 5 revived 1987 93 brent cross refurbishment london 1994 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 hampden gurney ce primary school london 2002 nominated for stirling prize icesheffield sheffield 2002 tresaguas centre madrid 2002 royal albert hall 30 discrete projects including the south porch 2003 nanoscience centre university of cambridge 2003 bbc mailbox birmingham 2004 olympic tennis centre athens 2004 faculty of education university of cambridge 2005 melbourne city waterfront 2006 aintree racecourse merseyside 2007 liverpool one merseyside 2008 masterplan nominated for stirling prize in 2009 mandi himachal pradesh indian institute of technology mandi 2011 masterplan riverside east building the robert gordon university aberdeen 2013 university of strathclyde technology and innovation centre university of strathclyde glasgow 2015 image gallery of bdp projects edit university of surrey guildford 1965 68 preston bus station 1968 69 halifax hq halifax 1973 & refurbisment 2002 cribbs causeway bristol 1998 manchester piccadilly station 2001 02 bbc mailbox 2004 sir ian wood building formerly riverside east the robert gordon university aberdeen 2011 13 people who have worked for bdp edit leon krier jennifer ross meiring richard saxon michael webb notes edit bdp contacts . bdp . retrieved 2014 08 20 . white bill 1987 the spirit of bdp preston bdp p 22 . owen hatherley 31 july 2012 . a new kind of bleak journeys through urban britain . verso books . pp. 70 77ff . isbn 978 1 84467 909 6 . uk s third biggest architecture firm bdp bought by japanese engineering giant dezeen 3 march 2016 . bdp 1968 experience in industrial building preston bdp . external links edit bdp website bdp.khandekar website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title building design partnership & oldid 737995575 categories architecture firms of the united kingdomcompanies established in 1961hidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history 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