Design
We are architects, engineers, designers and urbanists.
Placemaking for a Modern World We design at every scale and at every stage in the process of placemaking, from visioning to briefing, design, delivery and operation. The places we create are distinct; social, natural, useful and beautiful – a reflection of humanity. The practice has grown to over 1,200 people operating from a collaborative network of global studios, all creative hubs connected to the cities and regions they serve. BDP has an enviable track record of delivering innovative, sustainable projects in a number of sectors and for a diverse range of clients – both public and private, they include Google, AstraZeneca, Netflix, PwC, The Royal Albert Hall, IKEA, Berkeley Homes, Great Ormond Street Hospital and many more.
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Our People
We employ talented people at every level. Our unique position as a truly interdisciplinary design collective, our scale and culture of collaboration means our people can work on projects across a wide range of sectors and locations; exceptional opportunities to inspire the designers of the future. People are placed not only at the centre of our design philosophy but also at the core of our practice. Our practice diversity ensures that any barriers to equality are removed through active engagement and unqualified support.
Our Portfolio
The diversity and range of our portfolio across a variety of sectors is one of our key strengths, allowing us to connect with our clients in an informed and unique way. This diversity is extremely important to us and is further enhanced by the wide range of our projects from small specialist fit-outs to large complex corporate headquarters, educational establishments and healthcare facilities.
Each client and project is different and we work with a passionate diligence to ensure the resulting environments are exceptional and appropriate. Not only do we provide a full range of design and graphic services, we also offer strategic thinking in workplace environments and pragmatic logistics for furniture planning and procurement services.
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Wellbeing
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As a practice, what is clear to us is that clients and occupiers consider people and their wellbeing a key consideration. We believe that the best interiors are those with a heart space, that allow areas for connectivity, spaces to think, spaces to relax and provide outstanding facilities to make working lives easier.
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Sustainability As designers and engineers we continue to strive to create buildings that are sustainable, inclusive, flexible, support change, provide choice, embrace daylight, and offer good air and green space. We recognise that we are humans, that we have feelings and need meaningful contact with the elements and with one another to thrive.
BIM Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology represents the biggest change to the construction industry since computers were introduced. BDP was the first architectural practice to be accredited to BIM Level 2, we developed the BIM Digital Toolkit for the British government and hold BSI certification. All our design team are Revit users, and as a practice, we have extensive experience built up over more than a decade of use. We are now utilising BIM tools to go beyond the traditional design role, providing value to clients by looking forward to occupation with integrate ‘Day 2’ data for soft landings and supporting Facilities Management operation.
Workplace
Our clients turn to us to create and deliver best in class work environments with an emphasis on wellbeing, sustainability, diversity and inclusion, a community that fosters a culture of choice, collaboration and innovation in a workplace that is functional, flexible and supports business needs.
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Location Birmingham, UK Client PwC
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Completion Phase 1: 2019 Phase 2: 2021
Following the agile workplace strategy introduced in PwC Manchester, the One Chamberlain Square offices provide a total of nine floors over 156,000sqft. We introduced a carefully considered mix of workspaces for collaboration, quiet time and presentations, in close proximity; gone are the zones of break-out and work area; instead an eclectic mix of different settings, balanced across practice floors, making the best use of natural light and quiet corners.
“ The development of One Chamberlain Square embodies a forward-thinking, aspirational workplace… The building purposefully embraces Birmingham’s diverse heritage with each of its seven floors taking on a unique theme, ambience and identity.” Matthew Hammond
Partner, Midlands Region Chairman, PwC
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Location Toronto, Canada Client House of Cool Cost c. $1m
Completion 2019
House of Cool, an animation company with a unique niche in digital storyboards, lives up to its name in their new home at the Toronto Waterfront Daniels City of the Arts. The space is bright and inviting with a tongue-in-cheek ‘house’ design feature at the heart of the studio that houses their kitchen and entertainment space. The family-room comfort and quirky touches are mixed with highly functional and flexible furnishings throughout the studio to respond to their project work flow.
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Location Cambridge, UK Client AstraZeneca Cost Confidential Completion 2021
We are delivering the vision for a new office headquarters and laboratory complex for 2,000 employees to support AstraZeneca’s drive for scientific leadership and best practice in low energy laboratory design. The BREEAM Excellent design encourages collaborative working across the organisation and provides easy access for the wider scientific community through an open campus environment.
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Location Cambridge, UK Client Cambridge Assessment Cost £100m
Completion 2018
Cambridge Assessment headquarters provides office accommodation for 3,000 staff and has the adaptability to facilitate the business’ expected growth of 25% – with office spaces, restaurants, coffee bars, a library and resource centre, flexible conference and auditorium facilities, wellbeing facilities and over 100 meeting rooms of varying sizes. The project involved a Cat A and B fit-out, full furniture, furnishings, and equipment design as well as shell and core coordination.
“ Through intense stakeholder engagement to understand occupier needs, a full workplace solution was developed for a cohesive and flexible working environment that reflected the real work practices and ethos of the different client groups.” BCO Awards
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Location Belfast, UK Client PwC
Completion 2021
Design for fit-out of the new 200,000 sq ft nine floor workplace building for PwC Belfast. Relocating them from their existing premises to the new building at Merchant Square. The building is an amalgamation of three existing structures with a dramatic feature staircase linking floors 4, 5 & 6 connecting the 5th floor restaurant, Wellness Area & Co-Working to practice space.
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Location London, UK Client Google Cost £650m
Completion 2021
The first wholly owned and designed Google building outside of the United States, provides 1 million sqft of purpose-built space and combined with its current building at 6 Pancras Square, and an additional third building, will create a Google campus. We are lead consultant, design delivery architect, lighting and interior designer, and workplace planner, working with concept architects Heatherwick Studio and Bjarke Ingels Group to deliver the scheme.
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Location London, UK Client PwC
Completion 2018
PwC Frontier is a client facing hybrid of laboratory, office, and collaboration space, offering an experience centre that brings together business strategy, digital technology, customer experience and design. A series of interconnected spaces incorporates a virtual reality lab in which users can engage and test strategies through technology alongside a high spec studio office, and an adaptable open plan space. Its flexible environment is inspired by home, work and play.
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Client Land Securities Cost £30m
Completion 2015
A 1980s office development near St Katharine Docks required upgrades to its principal office building and public realm. The main reception area was remodelled, and incorporates a new double height stainless steel entrance portico, a large reception with feature audio visual system, business lounge and coffee shop. The upper floors were refurbished to create grade A commercial space. The public realm was remodelled to provide new access routes, raised levels, planting, seating and lighting.
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Location Watford, UK Client PwC
Completion 2021
A new north of London office destination, considered the company’s first biophilic office with an immersive garden floor; the welcoming interior features relaxed living spaces that evoke a feel-good factor where wellbeing, community connectivity and an inclusive flexible agile environment play a central role.
BDP has created an inviting office which paves the way for a fresh emphasis on people and wellbeing, a representation of PwC values and principles.
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Location London, UK Client MEAG
Cost Confidential Completion 2020
The refurbishment of a 1980s office building in the City of London includes work on its external façade and the creation of a semi-public ground floor space and a rooftop extension with terrace, opening up the roof level and offering views across the city. The scheme features an innovative structural glazing system on the ground floor, new lifts and core reconfiguration, prefabricated bathroom systems, and flexible ceiling-less office space.
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Location Glasgow, UK Client PwC
Completion 2021
Refurbishment of PwC client lounge by using net zero as a driver. The sustainability formula ‘Build less, build clever, design for adaptability & disassembly’ allows the newly designed interior to be disassembled and relocated to other PwC locations with less of a carbon footprint. This Refurbishment was the amalgamation of retaining existing features, refreshing, and improving functionality of a multifunctional space with a strong narrative related to location and history, therefore creating a distinctive space.
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Location Manchester, UK Client PwC
Cost Confidential
Completion Phase I: 2018 Phase II: 2019
PwC’s Manchester office spreads across four floors of the One Spinningfields building and provides collaborative workspace, flexible meeting pods, a feature staircase with ‘Spanish steps’ style seating, a café and three roof terraces. A strong Manchester identity is conveyed throughout, with its topography, industrial heritage and bee symbolism inspiring the aesthetic.
“ A magnificent experience for visitors and staff, and a blueprint for the future.” Judges
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Location London, UK
Client Pricewaterhouse Coopers Cost £60m
Completion 2011
Our design team held a pivotal role in the collaboration process of this job, working closely from the outset with PwC, the developer and its team including the architect Foster and Partners. The first building in London to achieve BREEAM Outstanding it includes environmental innovations such as the use of 80% recycled aggregate within the concrete used, and recycling of waste heat to cool and warm the building.
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Location Toronto, Canada
Client Hullmark Developments Ltd. Cost $1.824m
Completion 2019
The new headquarters for a growing, designfocused development client encompasses the full second floor of a restored art deco heritage building with stairs leading down to a “sunken living room” amenity space for staff with games, a gym and showers. Vintage lighting and furniture pieces, factory-style steel screens, and a green marble reception desk recall the art deco style of the building with a modern twist.
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Location Manchester, UK Client Eversheds Sutherland
Cost Confidential Completion 2021
A fit-out project across the top three floors and ground floor reception of a new office building for more than 300 Eversheds Sutherland staff. The offices will meet the high demands of today’s workforce for health, wellbeing and workplace quality, as major factors in job satisfaction and retention. Our design will allow the law firm to work in a more agile way while also factoring in future growth.
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Location Northampton, UK
Client Northamptonshire City Council Cost £40m
Completion 2017
One Angel Square enabled Northamptonshire City Council’s workforce to relocate from 12 separate properties into one BREEAM Excellent headquarters building. The brief required a flexible office to accommodate 2,000 employees and established a building that encourages collaboration and new ways of working for improved productivity, as well as serving as a catalyst for wider urban regeneration.
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Location London, UK Client PwC
Completion 2021
With increasing demand on the utilisation of its internal infrastructure BDP was asked to provide a new strategy to relieve the current flow of staff and client traffic using the first floor facilities. The installation of two new escalators provide access at street level through to a new concourse at first floor providing a new entrance. The existing client lounge and support spaces have been completely re-imagined providing an enhanced facility for guests and staff.
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Location Liverpool, UK
Client Aviva Investments Cost £5m
Completion 2013
This office refurbishment project refocused the central atrium to become a new destination at the heart of the workplace, with a new concierge reception and improved connectivity. A prominent entrance is created underneath the arches of the original station facade. The project provides 22,000 sqft of Category A office space, along with the redesign and refurbishment of common facility areas. A comprehensive rebranding exercise including wayfinding signage was also delivered in the scheme.
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Location London, UK
Client Westminster City Council Cost Confidential Completion 2019
64 Victoria is a 22 storey 1960s office tower that has been comprehensively refurbished with a new aesthetic and modern environment. Work included stripping the building’s concrete frame, cleaning stonework, installing new windows, maximising the ground floor glazing and opening up the entrance. The central core was remodelled and double-decker lifts were introduced, enabling densification of the workplace which is a first for a refurbishment project.
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Location Manchester, UK
Client Manchester Science Partnerships Cost £12m
Completion 2017
The Bright Building, at the centre of Manchester Science Park, is the first element of our masterplan and sets the standard for new development within the Manchester Science Partnerships’ portfolio. The BREEAM Excellent building provides a flexible office and low level laboratory accommodation over four floors set around a central collaborative hub, as well as café and restaurant facilities, a gym, meeting spaces, conferencing and networking spaces.
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Location Norwich, UK
Client Norwich Research Park Cost £250m
Completion 2024
The next generation infrastructure brings scientists together into multidisciplinary houses creating a ‘collaboratory’ of wet and dry science activities across chemistry, biology, physics and ecology to better understand plant and microbial phenotypes and how they impact on the evolution of plant genetics and development. Views into laboratories, glasshouses and other working spaces present a cross-section of the activities taking place.
Artscape Daniels Launchpad ID
Location Toronto, Canada Client Artscape
Cost Confidential Completion 2018
Launchpad is a first-of-its-kind incubator where creative entrepreneurs can learn the skills and create the work to launch their careers, providing affordable access to equipment, programming and an environment that fosters collaboration. With over 90 distinct rooms that each have their own unique feel, the space is amongst the most complex assembly occupancies in Toronto and features wood, jewellery, prototyping and fashion workshops, high-tech media labs, meeting, event and social spaces.
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Location London, UK
Client Royal Pharmaceutical Society Cost £5.4m
Completion 2015
A tired 1980s office building has been transformed into the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s headquarters to encourage collaboration and public engagement. The society’s museum of pharmacy collection is on display on the ground floor and leads to a 120 seat lecture theatre, feature staircase and new atrium which was created from an existing lightwell. Externally the reclad façade visually enhances the building and improves its environmental and acoustic performance.
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Location Toronto, Canada
Client OCAD University / The Daniels Corporation Completion 2018
The first off-campus outpost for OCAD University, OCAD U CO is an all-in-one design research lab and design-thinking facilitation and training space that features four large innovation studios, an open plan transit space, private niches and meeting spaces to suit any project’s needs. The design echoes the Sharp Centre for Design, visually linking the project to OCAD’s strong brand identity.
Workplace Strategy Our specialist consultants work to transform organisations from their existing environments into spaces that support the practices, collaboration skills, diversity and healthy environments needed in the modern workplace. Every organisation has its own challenges and goals, we tailor analysis and recommendations to guide the team with planning, supporting leaders with evidence and preparing all staff for future change.
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Content Media
Our interior designs pack a creative punch. Specializing in content media, cultural and new economy clients, we create spaces that express both brand values and great design, while integrating content security, acoustics and evolving technical requirements.
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Location Toronto, Canada
Client Deluxe Entertainment Cost Confidential Completion 2014
Deluxe occupies a three-storey space in a renovated 1990s data centre that contains open concept workspaces, a welcoming atrium and highly specialized post-production facilities for movies and videos. Boasting a custom private cinema for client screenings on the top floor, Deluxe exemplifies how an underused office building can be tailored to accommodate even the most unusual and specialised clients.
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Location Toronto, Canada Client Stereo D
Cost Confidential Completion 2016
In stark contrast to the widely accepted design principle of the democratization of light, Stereo D is a 3D conversion studio with open work spaces that need to be nearly dark to facilitate rendering. Utilizing the industrial bones of the former Canada Bread Factory, cool, comfortable communal spaces were created to help staff decompress, reconnect and recharge their creativity.
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Location Toronto, Canada
Client Rogers Communication Canada Inc. Cost Confidential Completion 2018
Rogers Centre of Excellence (COE) consolidates master control facilities for television, special events and radio networks into a non-traditional open plan design. The master control area is the focus of the facility with support spaces located on the periphery. The open plan permits “follow me monitoring”, allowing staff the ability to monitor various signals from anywhere in the space, and can be customized to support special programming events without affecting the day to day operations of the facility.
Corus Entertainment ID
Location Toronto, Canada
Client Corus Entertainment Cost Confidential Completion 2010
Consolidating many dispersed Corus offices into a single space, Corus Quay features complex technical areas, barrier-free design and a LEED designation, all while reflecting the style and personality of the company’s brand. Corus Entertainment’s headquarters is an award-winning space that incorporates facets of wellness and fun with practicality and feasibility. It is a beautiful space that facilitates its high-tech function, all the while being sustainable and accessible.
Rogers Yonge & Dundas ID
Location Toronto, Canada
Client Rogers Communication Canada Inc. Cost Confidential Completion 2009
Renovation of this five-storey building creating a visually engaging focal point for one of Toronto’s most vibrant and intense urban meeting places. The Rogers Broadcast Centre incorporates a street-level studio and broadcast space for the open, interactive style of programming pioneered by Citytv.
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Location Montreal, Canada Client Broccolini Construction Inc Cost Confidential Completion 2020
In the new CBC/Radio-Canada media centre, creators and programmers work within modern and versatile spaces which support the collaborative workplace strategy of the digital, multiplatform public broadcaster. The building features clear and simple wayfinding that connects its programmes around a central, sky-lit atrium, providing natural light on all floors.
Sportsnet Studios ID
Location Toronto, Canada
Client Rogers Communication Canada Inc. Cost Confidential Completion 2021
When Canadian telecom giant Rogers Communications moved to consolidate their Sportsnet studios at their main campus in downtown Toronto, BDP Quadrangle designed a new space dedicated to the iconic Hockey Night in Canada programming. The design team adapted space in the existing heritage building to suit the needs of a television studio, which included strategic interventions such as maximizing ceiling height, levelling the floor slab, and adding an internal acoustic barrier along the exterior façade to both assist lighting control and block noise infiltration from the busy urban street outside.
Senate House Library, London
Heritage
Historic buildings present many complexities. We respect the sensitivities involved yet still deliver innovative and far-reaching projects. Our heritage teams have undertaken the complex refurbishment of internationally renowned theatres, concert halls, museums and other cultural institutions. We have succeeded in preserving and enhancing their character whilst discreetly adapting them, functionally and technically, to make them truly fit for purpose in the 21st century.
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Location London, UK
Client University of London Cost £33m
Completion 2014
Phased refurbishment and consolidation of the University’s estate. Library accommodation formerly spread over eight locations, has been centralised in the Grade II* listed Senate House, which has increased the number of books it can hold. New meeting and teaching accommodation has also been created.
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Location London, UK
Client Department for Education Cost £50m
Completion 2019
The refurbishment and creative adaptation of the Grade II listed Old Admiralty required extensive engagement with Historic England, due to its significant history including offices once occupied by Winston Churchill and Ian Fleming. Now home to over 1,600 staff, work included reordering the building and repairing its external fabric. The interiors have been opened up to create 24,000 sqm of flexible workspace. Cellular spaces are linked within the historic building to increase connectivity.
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Location Toronto, Canada
Client Hullmark Developments Ltd Cost Confidential Completion 2014
A glass circulation addition punctuated by two 13m tall Corten steel clad volumes that glow like lanterns at night transforms this hybrid of office, retail and gathering spot. The interiors embrace the site’s history with an enlarged Goad’s Fire Atlas wall graphic, while a supergraphic ‘60’ on the exterior by artist Pascal Paquette gives the building a bold identity. The design highlights both old and new with contrasting brick that patch openings and castiron floor plates that knit together the two formerly separate buildings and carriageway between.
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Location London, UK
Client House of Commons Cost £600m
Completion 2021
The refurbishment and development of multiple Grade I, II and II* listed buildings in Whitehall provides office space for the House of Commons. Our masterplan maximises their use and secures their conservation and repair for the long term, creating efficient, accessible and sustainable modern facilities.
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Location London, UK
Client National Army Museum Cost £23m
Completion 2017
Creative adaption and representation of the 1970–80s museum, adjacent to the Royal Hospital in Chelsea and within the conservation area, together with the design and installation of the exhibition ‘Reinterpreting the Army Story’.
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Client Houses of Parliament
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The Palace of Westminster Restoration and Renewal Programme has been established to tackle the significant work that needs to be done to protect and preserve the heritage of the Palace of Westminster and ensure it can continue to serve as home to the UK parliament in the 21st century. The Grade I listed palace dates from the mid-1800s and is now one of the most iconic and significant buildings in the world, and forms part of the UNESCO Westminster World Heritage Site.
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Location London, UK
Client Royal Albert Hall Completion 2020
The Artists Bar, currently located in the B1 backstage corridor, is being relocated to the old B2 level boiler house once the new basement boiler house has been constructed and commissioned. The intent is to create a highly attractive space, sympathetic to the Hall’s heritage and to the original use of the space as a boiler house. The design makes reference to the previous use of the space as a boiler house and highlights the original brick vaulted ceiling and other original features.
Alder Hey Children’s Health Park
Healthcare
Healthcare buildings are the places where many of us will experience life’s most profound events and yet they are also complex technological facilities which have to operate efficiently. Our designs pay close attention to clinical effectiveness and efficiency but they always prioritise people – patients, their visitors and the staff who care for them.
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Location Liverpool, UK
Client Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Cost £167m
Completion 2015
Alder Hey embraces international best practice, providing 21st century clinical functionality within a framework that is efficient and flexible. Our design reflects latest thinking on control of infection, patient dignity and privacy, clinical and facilities management flows and technological advances. The therapeutic environment it instills gives visitors and staff A sense of ease and delight through the quality of spaces, views, daylight and interaction.
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Location Brighton, UK
Client Laing O’Rourke for Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust Cost £485m
Completion 2024 The major trauma centre for the region incorporates 361 beds, 65% of which are single ensuite rooms and a helipad, with views over the English Channel. Extensive consultation with local planners and English Heritage resulted in unanimous consent for the design’s sensitive integration into its historic environment.
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Location Dublin, Ireland
Client National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Cost €890m
Completion 2022
The largest, most complex and significant capital investment project ever undertaken in healthcare in Ireland, this new landmark building has a distinctive oval design with therapeutic gardens on the roof. A sequence of spaces inside and out enhances children’s freedom of body and mind, creating the optimum environment for care to flourish.
“ This breathtaking design does its job really well. It’s clear from the open-plan building, the gardens, the sports facilities, and the state-of-the-art wards that this is a unique building.” Taoiseach Leo Varadkar
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Location Bristol, UK
Client Carillion for North Bristol NHS Trust Cost £430m
Completion Mar 2014 Phase I, Jul 2016 Phase II A BREEAM Excellent healthcare facility designed around a central, top-lit grand public concourse which simplifies access to medical wards and departments. Naturally ventilated inpatient rooms are organised around a series of landscaped courtyards separate from the core clinical facilities, creating a positive, non-institutional environment.
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Location London, UK
Client Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Cost £42m
Completion 2018
BDP were commissioned to develop the first 9,000 sqm building an ambitious plan to redevelop the RNOH site on Stanmore Campus. The site was a combination of a green and brownfield land and surrounded by active hospital buildings and roads that are used to treat and transport patients. The new five storey hospital provides 91 single beds, an atrium, children’s playground and landscaped garden.
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Location London, UK
Client John Sisk & Son Ltd for Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Cost £100m
Completion 2023 The design brief for this world-renowned centre for paediatric care and research was created in partnership with staff, patients and families. A welcoming, active frontage responds to the domestic scale of its context and the ‘lily pad’ winter gardens enhance the inpatient experience, offering views from every bedroom window.
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Location London, UK
Client Schön Kliniken and ISG Cost £23m
Completion 2018
The client is a leading private healthcare provider in Germany specialising in back and spinal care. The new 6,500m² hospital facility incorporates three laminar airflow operating theatres, recovery wards, MRI and CT diagnostic equipment, consultation rooms, a gymnasium providing physiotherapy treatments and 40 luxury bedrooms split over eight floors.
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Location Liverpool, UK
Client Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust Cost £118m
Completion 2022
New cancer centre in Liverpool city centre. The hospital will share the same health campus as the new Royal Liverpool Hospital and the University of Liverpool. It will have 110 beds and provide care for people with cancer across the Merseyside and Cheshire region.
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Location Sutton, UK
Client The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust Cost £49m
Completion 2022
Design of a new cancer centre on the Royal Marsden’s existing estate in Sutton. Relocating services from their existing location on the estate, the new building contains Outpatients, Rapid diagnostics (RDC), day care, clinical assessment (CAU), a research centre, endoscopy and a staff café/restaurant that will be accessible to allstaff on site.
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Client Epsom & St Helier NHS Foundation Trust and Gardiner & Theobald Cost £700m
BDP are developing the OBC and initial design (to RIBA Stage 2) for Epsom & St Helier’s new HIP1 acute hospital. The SECH will have c500 beds and includes eight theatres, women and children’s, Emergency Department and associated imaging and diagnostics.
Maidenhill Primary School and Nursery, Glasgow
Education
Our approach places the user at the heart of the design process to create the very best learning and research environments that enthuse and nurture the people who use them. We bring an extraordinary breadth of skills and experience to the table, leveraging resources across our UK and international studios.
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Location Birmingham, UK Client University of Birmingham Cost £24m
Completion 2019
A new flagship education facility to enable and encourage modern teaching and learning methodology. The building is IT and audio visual-rich, with excellent access for students with a diverse range of needs and preferences. Providing a variety of collaborative and informal open access learning spaces with two large lecture theatres.
“ The Teaching and Learning Building is at the heart of a capital plan that prioritises academic and teaching facilities… I believe this is the kind of building in which people will discover their gifts and demonstrate their perseverance and confidence as they achieve their aspirations.” Professor Sir David Eastwood
Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham
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Location Manchester, UK
Client Balfour Beatty for University of Manchester Cost £287m
Completion 2021
Construction of the largest home for engineering in any UK university. Manchester Engineering Campus Development (MECD) provides world-class sustainable research facilities, alongside flexible and innovative teaching and learning spaces for 8,000 students, staff and academics. The new campus includes a STEM subject focus, with the integration of the Grade II listed Oddfellows Hall.
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Client The Manchester Metropolitan University Cost £41m
Completion 2022
Extension and transformation of Manchester Metropolitan University’s former student union building on Oxford Road into a 50,000 sq ft Institute of Sport. The cross-disciplinary institute will bring together world leading researchers in musculoskeletal science and sports medicine, with a range of experts across the University.
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Location Paris, France
Client American School of Paris Cost €36m
Completion 2018
Competition winning scheme for a new school campus. The design explores ways the site can be developed to provide a great 21st century learning environment. It celebrates the wonderful parkland setting at Saint-Cloud, in the western suburbs of Paris, and maximises the use of buildings and landscape to enrich the learning experience.
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Location Glasgow, UK
Client East Renfrewshire Council/BAM Construction Cost £15m
Completion 2019
Set over two floors, the school is organised around a central atrium, which contains interactive zones including science, performance, music, technology, library, art, storytelling and play. An intentionally calming internal environment has been designed to accommodate sensory difference. It has a learning lab fitted with curiosity cabinets, modular furniture and smart screen technology.
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Location Sheffield, UK
Client Sheffield Hallam University Cost £220m
Completion 2022
Sheffield Hallam University campus masterplan is placed at the heart of the city and is a single, sustainable and flexible campus. New ways of learning and working are supported by providing the right type of spaces in the right places to promote interdisciplinary collaboration across departments and with partners. Making the university more outward facing giving them a new identity, showcasing their excellence in teaching and research whilst providing them with opportunities to engage more directly with the Sheffield city region.
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Location Dubai, UAE
Client Heriot Watt
Cost Confidential Completion 2021
BDP was commissioned to refurbish the existing office, which involved re-purposing the layout to accommodate the new Heriot Watt University campus. Several open space nodes were created to encourage a social interaction between students and a flexible environment for education. The concept implemented biophilic design principles with the use of natural materials, colours and patterns and a variety of textures, and where practicable, real plants.
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Location Glasgow, UK
Client University of Strathclyde Cost £60m
Completion 2020
A new teaching and learning building at the University of Strathclyde. The project strips out and refurbishes two existing buildings, and introduces a new-build hub in between overlooking the university’s Rottenrow Gardens. This non-departmental facility is a unique, collective space, comprising a variety of learning and teaching spaces, ranging from small breakout spaces to a 400 seat lecture theatre.
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Location London, UK
Client University College London Cost £950k
Completion 2013
Conversion fit-out project for a space which was previously used as a delivery bay. The space is designed to be used by students, the faculty and the wider academic community to support extracurricular projects and interests, and to provide support for projects as part of the curriculum. At the heart of the project is the Materials Library – a growing repository of some of the most extraordinary materials on earth, gathered together for their ability to fire the imagination and advance conceptualisation.
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Location Manchester, UK
Client The University of Manchester Bruntwood Estates Cost £50m
Completion 2019
Phased redevelopment of the Oxford Road campus including a new 326 room 19 storey hotel and executive education centre, along with the redevelopment of the existing precinct centre to create a high end retail and leisure offer.
Manchester Metropolitan University, Science and Engineering Building Ar
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Location Manchester, UK
Client Manchester Metropolitan University Cost £117.5m
Completion 2023
RIBA Stage 1 Brief and Preparation assesses the quantity and quality of existing facilities at Science and Engineering and established the requirements for a single-phase, new-build development of Science and Engineering space. The faculty sets new research and teaching alongside refurbishment of the existing science and engineering labs and computer facilities.
Cardiff & Vale College Ar La
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Location Cardiff, Wales
Client Rightacre Properties Cost £26m
Completion 2015
New flagship city centre community campus for one of the largest colleges in Wales serving Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. Its distinctive wedge shape connects the interior spaces to south facing terraces with views towards Cardiff Bay. The over-sailing roof is angled to accommodate a 1,850 sqm photovoltaic array, and the fine dining sky restaurant is located under the northernmost tip with views across the city towards the Millennium Stadium.
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Location Tonbridge, UK
Client Tonbridge School Cost £10.8m
Completion 2018
Refurbishment and extension of the historically significant 1894 Science Building at Tonbridge School, the building is set within the heart of the Castle conservation area and adjoins the main historic buildings of the school. The design creates a central heart space within the existing structure and provides a new exciting wing, promoting cross-curriculum collaboration and a flexible area to be used to host a wide range of events and activities.
Grand Union
Housing
Many of our housing projects begin life as masterplanning studies for public and private sector clients, ranging from city centre regeneration to suburban districts and urban extensions. When we design housing we consider the residents and their social, cultural and economic infrastructure as much as the buildings themselves, our high quality, successful designs place the resident at the heart of the process.
Gallery Square Ar
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Location Markham, Canada
Client The Remington Group Completion 2024
The interiors of Gallery Square, part of the larger Downtown Markham master plan, will incorporate art in all aspects of the project from the sports court floor graphics that are visible from the suites above, to the furniture, to framing suite entries. This residential building is also targeting LEED Silver and features larger than usual two and threebedroom suites, and luxury townhouses.
St George Developments, Grand Union Phase I Ar
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Location Alperton, UK
Client St George Developments Ltd Cost Confidential Completion 2024
Canal side housing development comprising four separate buildings varying in height from five to 14 storeys accommodating 400 apartments, residents’ facilities, a community centre, nursery, food store, restaurant, café, a bowling alley, residents’ car parking and high quality public realm. A mix of tenures is provided including affordable rented, shared ownership and market housing for sale.
St George Developments, Grand Union Phase II Ar
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Location London, UK
Client St George Developments Ltd Cost Confidential Completion Ongoing
The second phase of this canal side housing development comprising four separate buildings accommodating 525 apartments, residents’ car parking and high quality public realm. A mix of tenures is provided including affordable rented, shared ownership and market housing for sale.
Plumstead – West Thamesmead Ar ID
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Location London, UK
Client Berkeley Homes Cost £340m
Design and delivery of a major new development at the gateway to Thamesmead. The project, a joint venture between Berkeley Homes and Peabody, transforms a vacant 17 acre industrial site into a dynamic new neighbourhood with housing, local retail and a new town park. The scheme will deliver 1,750 new homes (40% affordable) and features a biodiverse landscape with active play spaces to encourage healthy living.
York Condos Ar
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Location Markham, Canada Client The Remington Group Inc. Cost $140m
Completion 2020
A long stretch of amenities along the street level inspired a white crystalline sculpture that runs the length of the building. Cave-like pockets of activity hold different amenities, giving practical value to what is an impressive sight for residents, guests and passersby from the outside.
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Location Vaughan, Canada Client Cortel Group Completion 2025
A residential development which subverts expectations of a typical suburban block typology by establishing a series of interconnected public and semi-public spaces that connect the interior of the development to the street level. The built form is three towers between 25–30 storeys on a shared podium, containing community uses and retail at grade, with the tower expression designed to draw upon the contrast between the fast-paced external environment and the intimate neighbourhood within.
Gallery Towers Ar
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Location Markham, Canada
Client The Remington Group Completion 2024
The interiors of the extensive amenity spaces at Gallery Towers reflect the high-end, luxurious nature of this Downtown Markham development. A fully integrated architectural and interior design approach allows for a seamless blend of interior and exterior elements with a graceful wrap of curtainwall glazing that reveals the beautifully landscaped rooftop amenity.
The Well, Toronto
Retail
We are at the forefront of retail design with an established reputation for completing innovative and successful projects for our clients. We have delivered a range of configurations from single level to multilevel, maximising a site’s value. Each solution is unique and responds to the individual brief and location. We specialise in retail refurbishments, repurposing retail spaces, retail extensions and new retail and mixed‑use developments.
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Location Lisbon, Portugal
Client InterIKEA Centre Cost €200m
Completion 2017
MAR Shopping Algarve is a new retail destination designed for IKEA Centres and featuring an anchor IKEA store, a designer outlet and an outdoor leisure area. Set in the beautiful landscape of southern Portugal the building’s white cladding stands out and reflects the strong heritage of traditional local architecture.
Nike Yorkdale ID
Location Toronto, Canada
Client Fox Group Canada Cost Confidential Completion 2021
BDP Quadrangle worked closely with the Nike brand and their store operator to execute the design for this Nike flagship store and provided services that included pre-design, construction documentation and administration services. This experiential, dynamic storefront at this location in Yorkdale Mall articulates the Nike brand while drawing shoppers into the sales area.
Westgate Oxford Ar
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Location Oxford, UK
Client Westgate Oxford Alliance (Land Securities and The Crown Estate) Cost £440m
Completion 2017 The Westgate masterplan is based on a group of individually designed blocks which define the public streets and spaces. Covered streets open onto the surrounding streets of Oxford, providing a protected route leading from the existing high street to a new John Lewis store. The east-west lanes pass through the development, forming connections between the Castle Quarter and adjacent colleges and between adjacent residential areas on either side of the site.
Lululemon Yorkdale ID
Location Toronto, Canada
Client Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc. Cost Confidential Completion 2016
BDP Quadrangle provides retail roll-out services for Lululemon stores across North America. Pictured here, the original Yorkdale Shopping Centre location won awards for its eye-catching and innovative storefront fashioned from over 20 types of recycled wood, reflecting a focus on sustainability and nature. Relocated and refurbished with new glass detailing in 2016, this store exemplifies how a brand’s identity can be both reinforced and reinvented through inspired design.
Samsung Experience Store ID
Location Toronto, Canada
Client Samsung Electronics Canada Inc. Cost Confidential Completion 2017
The Samsung Experience Store represents its sixth, largest and most immersive Samsung Experience Store in Canada to date, and ushers in a new era of retail excellence for Samsung’s Canadian operations. The two-storey, 21,000 sf store features a fluid, contemporary design created to enhance the retail experience and delight visitors’ through innovative, hands-on participation.
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Location Moscow, Russia Client Ingka Centres Cost Confidential Completion 2017
An avant-garde fashion space in a former retail unit and car park. This project is experimental in its design as it needed to naturally traverse workplace, hospitality, retail and exhibition while accommodating current and emerging technologies. The concept is designed to engage with emerging experimental online fashion brands who want to establish pop-up stores, engage with clients and have a strong physical presence whilst retaining the integrity of the existing architectural space.
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Location Moscow, Russia
Client Mega Teply Stan Cost Confidential Completion 2017
A new retail concept for the ex-Decathlon department that occupied a former car park area at Teply Stan. The brief was to creative an innovative Fashion Basement zone that would incorporate Pop up Fashion kiosks, Food and beverage outlets, a Bookshop, Events space, flexible work area, make mend and reuse outlet, click and collect lounge and complimentary unique independent retail offers.
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Location Moscow, Russia
Client Mega Teply Stan Cost Confidential Completion 2019
The project required a clear narrative with a Scandinavian feel and a design concept that helped to reinforce the commercial retail clusters: ranging from kids zone, to fashion flexible pop up areas to F&B to sports & leisure.
Poltrona Frau Showroom ID
Location London, UK
Client Poltrona Frau Cost £750,000
Completion 2015
A new flagship showroom for prestige Italian furniture brand Poltrona Frau. Designed to a blueprint by leading French designer Jean-Marie Massaud the new showroom is arranged over two floors on London’s Fulham Road. BDP worked closely with Poltrona Frau’s in-house design team to deliver a luxurious new home for the brand.
Wroclaw Bielany Ar
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Location Wroclaw, Poland
Client InterIKEA Centre Polska Cost Confidential Completion 2015
The retail catering and leisure extension to the newly refurbished shopping centre in Bielany, Poland, is crafted of an architecture and internal design that is a direct response to local landmarks, geography and culture. Facades are inspired by rock formations and resulting patterns are used to generate massing, geometries and patterns in the architecture.
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Location London, UK Client Atrium
Completion 2014
This adaption of a shell and core building over three floors provides new offices, a lighting showroom and Cat A offices for subletting. The Atrium showroom accommodates 40 staff and has associated facilities such as client meeting spaces and a kitchen. The showroom can also be used for events, having a bar area and a 50 seat seminar space.
Mega Khimki Ar
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Location Moscow, Russia Client Ikano
Cost Confidential Completion 2021
Major refurbishment of an existing mega shopping centre in Russia, 175,000 sqm. For Ingka shopping centres. BDP was commissioned to implement INGKA’s meeting place strategy throughout the interior spaces and to complete the external renovations and entrances. The project also included creating a new restaurant terrace and IKEA integration following their latest guidelines.
Due West ID
Location Toronto, Canada Client DWND Clothing Cost Confidential Completion 2015
A luxurious black and bronze aesthetic with a fully customizable module encompassing shelves, lights and fixtures re-established this 1973 retailer to its original status as a luxury clothing store. Respectful treatment of the store’s original appeal utilising BDP Quadrangle’s knowledge of high-end retail design produced an award-winning space that serves both the owner and customer in function and appearance.
Lululemon Queen Street West ID
Location Toronto, Canada
Client Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc. Cost Confidential Completion 2016
Embodying the spirit of experiential retail, this stylish Lululemon contains four distinct functions. While primarily a retail outlet, the location also houses a yoga studio, meeting space for clientele and a juice/coffee bar. Responding to consumer demands for stores that cater to individual experience, this unique location provides more than just a place to shop, encompassing a multi-faceted brand experience.
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Location Sheffield, UK Client British Land
Cost Confidential Completion 2017
The UK’s fourth largest shopping centre has been transformed into a contemporary destination. Embracing Sheffield’s steel legacy, our proposal is inspired by the process of making steel, which is interpreted in abstract ways. The original centre was cluttered with impeded sightlines, having four zones that lacked distinction, poor legibility and orientation.
Boxpark, Croydon
Food & Beverage
Food plays an increasingly influential role in the way we socialise and our adapting lifestyles. BDP is at the forefront of this shift in F&B design. The international design team have a wealth of knowledge and expertise in design for food with contacts in the food industry, and a passion for food and enthusiasm to follow and research latest trends. BDP’s F&B expertise starts from the UK, and expands across Europe, Asia and North America.
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Location London, UK
Client Network Rail Cost £13m
Completion 2017
Paddington Lawn is the first commission under the Network Rail retail architects framework. Our vision creates a retail and catering destination that fully integrates with the magnificent volume of Brunel’s famous station structure. The customer experience is improved to provide an elegant piece of placemaking with a tenant mix that caters for the ‘grab and go’ right through to quality dining and drinks in a unique and memorable setting.
Westgate, Oxford Ar
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Location Oxford, UK
Client Westgate Oxford Alliance (Land Securities and The Crown Estate) Completion 2017
As part of the Westgate Oxford development for which BDP were masterplan architects and responsible for all the common elements, we created a unique rooftop food and beverage destination with outstanding views over the dreaming spires of Oxford. This project generated 12 rooftop dining offers, set amongst a landscaped terrace and flexible event space, providing a new dining venue in the city with an eclectic mix of places to eat, and reflects the growing trend for external dinning terraces.
Boxpark Ar
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Location Croydon, UK Client Boxpark
Completion 2018
New pop up mall as part of the mixed-use Ruskin Square development. Boxpark is constructed of stripped and refitted shipping containers and includes 80 units arranged around a covered courtyard space. Boxpark is made available for year-round events, while bringing a new food and drink concept to Croydon.
Paddington Box Ar
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Location London, UK
Client British Land Completion Ongoing
Part of the Paddington Central Development at 5 Kingdom Street, the masterplan proposal for this former goods yard, located near Paddington Station, is a flexible food and beverage destination, offering a street food market that can be transformed into a community sports hall. Paddington Box offers a vibrant leisure and cultural space, with new restaurants, cafés and public spaces for this thriving mixed-use sustainable neighbourhood and destination.
Parque Nascente Porto Ar
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Location Porto, Portugal Client Klepierre
BDP’s response to Klepierre’s brief for Parque Nascente, was to transform the centre from inside to outside, to create a fresh visual identity and two complimentary and unique new destinations, reflecting the future of food and fashion. On the ground level the proposal was to repurpose a former DIY anchor store into a fashion square destination. And a terrace level added to create a double height food destination.
Singen City Centre Ar
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Location Singen, Germany Client ECE
Completion Ongoing
Celebrating the local town’s strong industrial heritage, we designed a new food destination at the heart of a large new retail scheme in the city centre. To capture the imagination of the local and tourist market, a rich palette of materials, colours and food offers were introduced. Visitors will enjoy the many vistas over the towns industrial setting amongst an exciting variety of food offers in our very first ‘Industrial Kitchen’.
The Vaults at The Well Ar
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Location Toronto, Canada Client Rio Can, Allied Properties, Diamond Corp Cost £200m
Completion 2022
An innovative and high-end twist to the food court concept. A dynamic space with views out to the city, housing Toronto’s best culinary stars in a variety of upscale kitchens and modern, open-plan dining areas. A “copper box” floating at its core, designed to host all the services. Whether its for a formal lunch meeting, after work drinks or pre-movie dinner, the Dining Hall is Toronto’s place to see and be seen.
BreuningerLand Ar
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Location Ludwigsburg, Germany Client Breuninger
Creating new foodhall destination within an existing shopping centre north of Stuttgart called BreuningerLand. Key aspects included flexibility, strong visual connections to the existing centre and the department store. Targeting the different customer groups and seamless integration of digital technology.
British Museum, World Convention & Exhibition Centre, London
Furniture Planning & Consultancy
BDP provides fully independent planning and consultancy services for furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF+E). Our team tailor the briefing, utilising Revit modelling to provide 3D furniture planning, schedules, walk-throughs and visuals for selection and approval. For a comprehensive facilities solution BDP’s BIM capability can be enhanced further with coordinated soft landing and asset management support, putting the client at its centre.
British Museum Ar
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Location London, UK
Client British Museum Cost Confidential Completion 2017
Refurbishment and extension providing a new public café adjacent to the galleries, kitchens, staff restaurant, workshop, reception area and three levels of open plan office space. The proposal provides, for the first time a reception centre for professionals and VIPs and allows staff currently working in the Russell Square Georgian terrace to move into modern open plan offices.
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Location Various, UK Client PwC
Cost Confidential Completion Ongoing
Since 2005, BDP has been providing interior design and consultancy services for PwC’s real estate portfolio management, which includes building and space planning analysis, office rationalisation including furniture planning, refurbishment and relocation, plus environmental engineering services for UK and European properties involving in excess of twenty projects.
Alder Hey Children’s Health Park Ar
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Location Liverpool, UK
Client Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Cost £167m
Completion 2015
A new 274 bed hospital located on a park, the existing hospital was demolished after the new building went up, and the park was then recreated in its place. Central to the idea was ensuring that the majority of rooms enjoy park views, and that gardens and terraces are accessible to all (60,000sqm).
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Location Cambridge, UK Client Cambridge Assessment Cost £100m
Completion 2018
BDP provided a full FF&E planning, design and specification service, working with the client, and stakeholder and facilities management teams to develop the design and specifications. Services also included tenders and evaluation, and managing the installation of furniture, decorative lighting and accessories for all areas. The design was developed to meet the functional and aspirational brief and ranged from high end key set pieces, to the high ticket, large quantities, where quality and performance were critical.
Culcheth High School, Warrington
Graphic Design & Wayfinding
With over 40 years’ experience developing and implementing successful solutions for landmark projects, our wayfinding and graphic design team offers proven skills in analysis, client collaboration and integrated design. Whether it’s enabling students to find their way around a university, or supporting visitors to a hospital, our aim is to simplify and solve, complex wayfinding challenges. We look after people, helping them understand the spaces around them, enabling them to interact with their surroundings successfully.
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Location Various, UK
Client Pricewaterhouse Coopers Cost Confidential Completion 2022
Environmental graphics shape a place by telling a story. They communicate identity and information, activate spaces, and organise places for efficient navigation. We work closely with PwC to design graphics that integrates with the interior design while applying ‘brand personality’ at each location to create a sense of place.
Alder Hey Children’s Health Park Ar
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Location Liverpool, UK
Client Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Cost £167m
Completion 2015
At Alder Hey the environmental graphics shape the spaces by telling a story. They communicate identity and information, activate spaces, and organise areas for efficient navigation. We worked with the artist Dinah Casson to develop the animal creatures.
New Covent Garden Market Ar
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Location London, UK
Client Vinci St Modwen & Covent Garden Market Authority Cost £2bn
Completion 2025
New Covent Garden Market has just got newer; the traders have moved out of the 1970s building half a mile down Nine Elms Lane, and replanted themselves in a bright new premises opposite Battersea Power Station. Our wayfinding has been designed to reflect the visual identity and the vision of the greater development – a new fruit and vegetable market is scheduled to open in 2022.
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Location Norwich, UK
Client Columbia Threadneedle Cost £1m
Completion 2019
Under the Flyover is a proposed ‘pop up’ shop and food stall development located under the Magdalen Street flyover in Norwich. The scheme re-uses stripped and refitted 40ft high shipping containers arranged over two floors. BDP created the brand and developed a graphic language that—like the containers themselves—is strong and robust.
Exchange Station Ar ID
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Location Liverpool, UK
Client Space Northwest & Aviva Investments Cost £5m
Completion 2013
Every aspect of the scheme was considered to create a cohesive brand language. BDP designed everything from the suspended lighting cradles, to the typeface, logo and even the clock.
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Location Tonbridge, UK
Client Tonbridge School Cost £10.8m
Completion 2018
Tonbridge School’s science centre dates back to 1887 and was the first in the country to be purpose built. The wayfinding scheme for the new Barton Science Centre at Tonbridge School, gently combines the sign components with the architectural materials, while also providing up to date and flexible information in key areas. Graphics have been integrated into the library book shelving with each panel highlighting the ground breaking work of iconic scientists in physics, chemistry and biology.
University of Wales Ar
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Location Newport, UK Client University of South Wales Cost £26m
Completion 2010
The wayfinding scheme for the new City Campus, has a concept inspired by the curves of the building. As part of an overall design remit we also created super-graphics using bold icons and vibrant colours in order to activate the spaces.
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BDP worked closely with Bristol NHS Trust to introduce a new approach to hospital wayfinding based on a ‘Gate’ principle similar to that used at airports.
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Location New Cairo, Egypt Client Emaar Misr
Completion 2019
Mivida retail district is part of the Emaar Mivida masterplan and is located on the eastern edge of New Cairo. BDP created a wayfinding strategy by choreographing the entire customer and user experience. Particular attention was paid to the arrival sequence, the amenities or architectural statements that greet the guests, the character and circulation within the project, what events present themselves, what people see, touch and hear, culminating in a cohesive wayfinding strategy, design system and project identity.
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Location London, UK
Client University of London Cost £33m
Completion 2014
Our wayfinding design gently integrates the signage with the architectural materials of the Grade II listed building, while also providing up to date and flexible information.
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Location Northampton, UK
Client Northamptonshire City Council Cost £40m
Completion 2017
One Angel Square is a flexible office space designed to accommodate Northamptonshire City Council’s 2,000 employees. The internal floor plates are arranged along four internal ‘streets’ each zoned by compass point.Along each street, sequentially numbered workspaces and meeting rooms are assigned a letter/number code, created specifically to enable staff to understand and navigate the building easily.
Selected Awards BDP has won over 1,000 awards for design quality – a selection of our awards is listed below. FX Interior Design Award • Interior Design Practice of the Year (2012) • Nike Town, London (Finalist)
Mixology Award • BDP Design Practice of the Year 2019
• Mark Simpson – Henry Pugh Outstanding Contribution Award • Boxpark, Croydon (2017 Finalist – Hospitality Interiors Project of the Year)
• Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool (Public Sector Interiors Project of the Year) • Royal Pharmaceutical Society, London
• Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool (Public Sector Interior Award)
• City Campus, University of Wales Newport (Public Sector Interiors Project of the Year) British Council for Offices Awards National Awards • Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia (Best of the Best, Best National & Best Regional Corporate Office Building) • 7 More London, PwC, London (Innovation) • Graham Headquarters, Northern Ireland • West Lothian Civic Centre, Livingston (Innovation) • PwC Glasgow (Fit-out of workplace category) • PwC Offices, Edinburgh (Fit-out of workplace category)
British Council for Offices Awards Regional Awards • Cambridge Assessment Headquarters, Cambridge (Corporate Workplace Award, Regional BCO Midlands and Central England Awards)
• PwC Manchester, Manchester (Northern region Fit out of workplace)
• Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (Regional award – Innovation) • PwC Offices, Bristol (Regional award – Fitout of workplace category) • Inovo, Industry Engagement Building, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (Commercial Workplace category)
• PwC Offices, 3 St James Court, Norwich (Fit-out of workplace category) • Exchange Station, Liverpool (Fit-out of workplace category)
• Manchester Town Hall Extension, Manchester (Refurbished/Recycled Workplace) • Navigation Warehouse, Wakefield
• Tanfield, Edinburgh (Projects up to 2,000m²) • BDP Manchester Studio, Manchester • Bright Building, Manchester (Highly Commended)
RIBA Award • Merrion House, Leeds (Sustainability Award) • One Angel Square, Northampton • No. 1 North Bank, Sheffield
• BDP Manchester Studio, Manchester
• City Campus, University of Wales Newport
• Heslington East Campus, University of York • Cardiff Central Library, Cardiff
• Navigation Warehouse, Wakefield
• Liverpool One Masterplan, Liverpool (Shortlist for Stirling Prize)
• Abito Apartments, Greengate, Salford
• Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth (BDP architects from Stage C onwards)
RIBA National Award • Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool
RICS Regional Award • Canolfan S4C Yr Egin, Carmarthen, Wales
RIBA Regional Award • Westgate, Oxford (South)
• No 1 Cathedral Square, Blackburn
• Merrion House, Leeds (Yorkshire)
• Merrion House, Leeds (Sustainability Award) • One Angel Square, Northampton • (East Midlands)
• Brunel Building, Southmead Hospital, Bristol • (RIBA South West Client of the Year for North Bristol NHS Trust) • Boxpark, Croydon (London Region) • Oldham Town Hall, Oldham (North West Region and Conservation Award)
• Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool (North West Regional Award, Building of the Year and Sustainability Award) • Cardiff and Vale College, Wales (Welsh Region)
• St John Bosco Arts College, Liverpool (North West Regional Award & Regional Client of the Year Award)
• Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham (West Midlands Regional Award & Winner of RIBA Regional Client of the Year Award) RICS National Award • Essex Business School, Colchester (Highly Commended – Design Through Innovation) • Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool (winner – community benefit)
• Haydn Ellis Building, Cardiff (Highly Commended – Design Through Innovation) • Graham Headquarters, Northern Ireland
• One Angel Square, Northampton
• Atria and EICC Extension, Edinburgh
• Bathgate Partnership Centre, West Lothian • B&Q Store Support Office, Eastleigh, Hampshire
• West Lothian Civic Centre, Livingston (Commendation) • BDP Manchester Studio, Manchester REVO Gold Award • Westgate, Oxford (Re:new Category)
• Meadowhall Refurbishment, Sheffield (Re:fresh+ Over £10 million build contract Category) • The Lexicon, Bracknell (Re:new)
• The Lexicon, Bracknell (Best of the best award) • Boxpark Croydon, London (Re:lax)
• East Kilbride Leisure Hub, Olympia’ Kilbride Centre (Re:fresh)
• Guildhall Shopping Centre, Exeter (catering and leisure category) Building Better Healthcare Award • Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool (Best Acute Hospital Development)
• National Children’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland (Best use of BIM)
• Alder Hey Children’s Health Park, Liverpool (highly commended – best design concept)
Mark Simpson
Principal, Chair of Design, Head of Workplace mark.simpson@bdp.com
Cover: PwC Birmingham
Photography: Nick Caville, Craig Auckland / Fotohaus, David Barbour, Ant Clausen, Doublespace Photography, Hufton + Crow, Roland Halbe, Philip Vile, Michael Whitestone, Terrence Zhang
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