We are forward thinking, progressive, and understand the market, trends, and societal changes
We bring a collaborative, progressive and forward thinking approach, born from knowledge of the market, trends and changes in society. We are inquisitive, multi-sector, multidisciplined, have an international presence and knowledge base to feed into projects, whilst understanding the importance and value of the local.
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, including Google, AstraZeneca, Netflix, PwC, The Royal Albert Hall, IKEA, Berkeley Homes, Great Ormond Street Hospital and many more.
Our retail and mixed use portfolio includes projects which range from complex new builds and infill extensions to the refurbishment and renewal of existing urban centres.
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BDP’s creativity spans the full spectrum of life’s activities.
We pride ourselves on the highest design quality and the creation of places for the use of all, informed by community, local needs and desires.
We combine expertise across disciplines, locations, sectors and all major building types to deliver a truly integrated way of working – resulting in high-quality, practical and inspiring built spaces.
Our multi-sector, multi-disciplined status and global presence, gives us a unique vantage point.
For each project we embark on, we are able to draw on our local and global experts to create a ‘collective’ of dedicated sector and discipline specialists. These teams develop market responsive feasibility studies and vision strategies for a diverse range of clients.
This collaborative approach means we can identify opportunities, constraints and find creative solutions.
In this digital era, with shifting consumer expectations, the retail landscape we once knew has been replaced by a new paradigm, a mixed use model.
Retail is no longer just about transactions – it’s about creating memorable and immersive experiences, heightened by a commitment to sustainability.
Flexibility is key in this evolving retail world. The mixed use model incorporates a balance of different community focused sectors, including retail, leisure, restaurants, residential, and offices.
Whether the goal is to restructure existing assets, or generate new income opportunities, mixed use retail needs to be strategic, urban masterplan driven, and address social needs.
Research and analysis should inform the new mix, to ensure it is authentic to the local area and responds to the community it serves.
A successful mixed use model is integral to a strong, sustainable, and vibrant city economy.
The retail sector as we once knew it, has the potential to adapt and shape the future of urban environment.
We work with existing and new clients to unlock opportunities and maximise a site’s value. Our solutions are unique, and respond to individual briefs, as well as the location.
Current development practice is primarily mono-use: retail, residential or commercial with a sprinkling of food or leisure.
This creates cities of silos, areas of over saturation of use, activity and reliance, leaving other areas lifeless at different points of the day or week.
This necessitates the need to commute, generating huge movement in a limited timeframe, exerting enormous pressure on transportation infrastructure.
A mixing of uses is key to the revitalisation of town and city centres. A more considered and mixed development model could rebalance the distribution of use.
Spreading the intensity of activity a little wider, theoretically flattens the peak and re-energises local centres, reducing the need to commute, and promotes a sense of belonging, pride and commitment to one’s local area.
The core centre remains vibrant and active, with opportunities to accommodate living space, occupying our city centres 24/7.
Location Toronto, Canada
Client Rio Can, Allied Properties and Diamond Corp
Cost
$200m
Completion 2024
We were appointed as retail concept architects by RioCan, Allied Properties and Diamond Corp in March 2016. This development consists of seven individual building blocks that define a pedestrian network of streets and spaces at ground level. Shops, restaurants and cafés occupy the three podium levels with residential and offices ranging from four to 35 storeys rising above.
Location London, UK
Client Ingka Investments
Cost
Confidential
Completion
Ongoing
This project sees the retail led mixed use repurposing of a landmark building on Oxford Circus in central London.
The conversion includes refurbishment of the Grade II listed façade and the incorporation of an IKEA store, new retail units, and 4-5 floors of high spec new office space with Cat A fit-out.
Location
London, UK
Client
Ingka Centres
Cost
Confidential
Completion
2021
This development transformed a dated and tired shopping centre in the heart of Hammersmith into a welcoming, inclusive and uplifting meeting place for the whole community.
This project features one of the first IKEA city centre format stores, strategically designed to serve as a vibrant community hub. Central to the design is an amphitheatre-style seating area, purpose-built to host events and foster social interaction, offering a welcoming space for people to gather, connect, and spend time together.
Location Altrincham, UK
Client Bruntwood Works/ Trafford Council
Cost
Confidential
This project comprises a range of proposals to convert the existing retail store into a mixed use development, including a lightweight two-storey extension above the existing building for office use, with retail and leisure uses at the ground and lower ground floors – such as cafés, restaurants and independent shops – which open up onto Stamford New Road or Stamford Square.
Location Shanghai, China
Cost
Confidential
This regeneration of a large riverside power station will become a retail-led mixed use development. Sitting within an 83,000 sqm site in Yangpu on the edge of the Huangpu River, the project will incorporate offices, retail units, hotels, leisure facilities, food and beverage spaces and even cultural places dedicated to the history of the power station. The regeneration of the power plant aims to transform Yangshupu into a vibrant mixed use destination for people across the district.
Location Valsad, India
Client Opera Infrastructure Inc.
Area 3.2 acres
Completion
Ongoing
Crossroads is a commercial and retail centre on a three acre site located in Valsad, Gujarat. The corner site is strategically located at the junction of National Highway 48 and State Highway, Valsad-Dharampur Road. The programme includes retail, restaurants, fast-food chains, car showrooms, banquet facilities, a boutique hotel, and offices. The site has the dual advantage of highway frontage and easily accessibility from Valsad city.
The design takes advantage of the corner site by providing maximum frontage for the retail spaces. In a departure from the covered and sometimes bland shopping mall format that is common in India now, The Crossroads is developed as an open to the sky retail destination with multi level retail streets, anchored with lively plazas; reminiscent of traditional Indian street markets.
Location
Paris, France
Client
Ingka
Cost
Confidential
BDP was appointed to deliver a pre-feasibility and exploration study for Italie Deux, a large shopping centre located in Paris’ 13th Arrondissement, on the left bank of the River Seine.
Focussed on identifying opportunities that lie within the existing building and site location, we worked closely with the client team to better understand the complexity of ownership and the process of approval required.
Location
Galway, Ireland
Client Summix Capital
Limited and Seagull
Point Limited
Cost
€300m
Completion
2021 – Planning application approved
The Augustine Hill Masterplan seeks to rejuvenate the 8.5 acres of inactive brownfield lands to the south of Ceannt Station in Galway, Ireland, creating a new mixed urban community which will include residential, culture, retail, leisure, office and transport.
Location
Bolton, UK
Client
Bolton Metropolitan
Borough Council
Cost
Confidential
The development of a new masterplan for the town of Farnworth, is part of a new initiative which strives to breathe life into areas across the region. Creating new homes, opening a new community hub and moving library services into the town centre are among some of the ideas that have been raised after six months of community engagement and 500 responses from residents, councillors and businesses.
This is a retail and leisure mixed use development in the heart of downtown Abu Dhabi. The scheme will consist of open streets and include an exciting mix of retail units, food and beverage, cinema, commercial and cultural amenities with the possibility of a 200-room boutique hotel. Location Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Location Indonesia
Client PT Aarunya
Mitra Optima
Completion
2021
BDP designed a 528-hectare, mixed use, waterfront development masterplan for Patimban New City, Indonesia. The sustainable masterplan aims to unlock the commercial potential of the area and create a resilient, ecological and prosperous waterfront city, which promotes a symbiotic relationship between its communities, local ecology and the built environment.
Location
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Client
Nippon Koei
Cost
Confidential
Completion
2018
BDP created a masterplan vision for the urban waterfront in the historic city of Ho Chi Minh. The proposal reduces the impact of vehicle dominance and poor connections between the old city and the Saigon River, by directing vehicles through an underground bypass and creating a fully pedestrianised waterfront that holds a new city plaza, cafés and dining areas, a water taxi station, soft landscaped gardens and a new cultural hub.
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Location
Oxford, UK
Client Westgate Oxford Alliance (Land Securities and The Crown Estate)
Cost
£440m
Completion
2017
The Westgate masterplan includes the internal remodelling of the existing Westgate Shopping Centre. It forms the main entrance to the extended centre leading to an elegant vaulted arcade. The work included a refurbished public library, new retail and leisure space.
Location Sheffield, UK
Client British Land
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. We therefore designed distinct districts with different mall finishes and environments.
Location Sheffield, UK
Client British Land
Cost £300m
The aim of The Leisure Hall is to create an exceptional regional destination, transforming the face, perception and journey to a reinvented and enlivened Meadowhall. The proposals involve reappropriating the existing deck parking and grafting on a major new leisure and restaurant led extension.
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Location
Edinburgh, UK
Client Nuveen Real Estate
Cost
£850m
Completion
2021
This major regeneration on a World Heritage site in Edinburgh creates a distinct area in the Scottish capital, incorporating new and existing development and several listed buildings. In addition to retail, it includes homes, leisure and catering arranged around a crescent shaped galleria.
Location London,
Client
This retail fit-out and delivery of 253 sqm Arc’teryx store within the Grade II listed Battersea Power Station, incorporates a neutral, natural palette.
BDP was responsible for the detail design, tender drawings and managing the fit-out of the shop unit with the selected contractor. We coordinarted with the client’s in-house design and retail delivery team to verify and align the design with current British Standards.
Location Wuxi, China
Client Ingka Cost Confidential
IKEA Wuxi integrates a shopping centre, residences and a hotel. This placemaking project will create a new retail destination, offering a new meeting point for families, youth and elderly people.
Location
Wuhan, Hubei, China
Client
Wuhan Yijing
Property Ltd
Cost
Confidential
Completion
2019
The Wuhan Tahan masterplan is an 18 hectare office led mixed use development, strategically located in the city centre with close links to Wuhan Plaza business district, the Financial Business Centre and Wangjiadun CBD.
The scheme creates a gateway for the transition from the city’s old business and trade district to the new emerging one. The design delivers a modern urban complex integrating grade-A office buildings, with high end residential units, a terraced retail and entertainment podium, and a 5 star hotel.
Location
Stockport, UK
Client
Capital and Centric
Cost
Confidential
The Weir Mill development in Stockport comprises a 253-home mixed use project by Capital & Centric. Plans include restoring a Grade II listed former cotton mill, constructing two new buildings, and incorporating 24,000 sqft of commercial space.
The design integrates co-working spaces, independent businesses, and a riverside zone for markets and events. Weavers Square and West Courtyard offer public spaces with historical elements and green areas, enhancing the community experience near the Stockport Viaduct.
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Location
Waterford, Ireland
Client
Fawaz Al Hokair Group
Real Estate Company
The Waterford North Quay Development is a new mixed use lifestyle and recreational destination that consists of a large shopping mall with retail, food and beverage, cinema, a transport interchange, 4 star 200-bed hotel, offices, residential blocks, river boardwalk and a visitor centre. The development also includes a base car park, associated roads, infrastructure and connects to existing utilities and transport network.
Location
Loulé, Portugal
Client IICG
Cost
Completion
MAR Shopping Centre Loulé, in Algarve Portugal, designed by BDP for Ikea forms part of a larger €200 million complex featuring an IKEA store, a designer outlet and a leisure outdoor area.
Shaped in response to the climate, the building puts in place a series of devices to dialogue with the near eternal sunshine of the Algarve.
Location
Beijing, China
Client Inter IKEA
Centre Group
Cost
Confidential
Completion
2015
A retail and leisure development in the Daxing district, comprised of a three-level shopping and leisure complex with three subterranean car park levels for 7,000 cars pus an office park development with strong transport links. The overall scheme consists of six individual buildings and is anchored by a 48,000 sqm IKEA store.
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London, UK
Client
British Land Cost Confidential
This concept is for the appropriation of a redundant 100,000 sqft box beneath British Land’s Paddington Central campus to create a fantastic food and leisure destination with a unique perspective over the rail tracks. The Box is accessed via a lifted landscape plain that creates an entrance route into a new public amphitheatre.
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Location Dubai, UAE
Client
Emaar
Cost Confidential
The Boardwalk Mall is envisaged as a district shopping center to be developed by EMAAR, servicing the prosperous Dubai Hills community within the Al Quoz area of Dubai, UAE. The Mall will contain a mixture of high-end retail units (65 in total) and a supermarket. In addition, there is a sizeable leisure component with a further 25 food and beverage units being provided as well as a five screen multiplex cinema complex. The Mall is defined by the use of high quality materials, elegant proportions, a functional arrangement and simple modernist architecture.
Location Acapulco, Mexico Client
Masterplan for the 450 hectare Golden Zone in Acapulco, including an overall strategy for regeneration of the town, improvements to the main coastal road and a series of specific project interventions within each of the five identified strategy districts.
Location Abu Dhabi, UAE
Client
MODON Properties
Cost Confidential
The Hudayriat Surf Ranch sets the new benchmark for sports and leisure in Abu Dhabi. As an iconic and innovative leisure development, Surf Ranch will create a world class surfing facility with the best wave system in the region, becoming the hub of surfing tourism in the MENA region, offering highly experiential and tailored sporting opportunity intended to attract regional and global surf travellers and professional athletes.
Location Vietnam
Client
Apollo Construction
Consultant LLC
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A multidisciplinary team from BDP, Nippon Koei and MH Architects were commissioned by the Vietnamese developer Sun Group in December 2021 to develop the concept masterplan for this beachfront site at Vung Tau, Vietnam. Located along the 3 km Thuy Van Beach, our masterplan aims to transform the area into a year-round, 24/7 tourism hotspot for locals and international visitors. The proposed masterplan, consisting of underground shopping malls, underground car parks, lagoons, clubhouses, F&B, shared paths, parks, and plazas, will be catalysts for an exceptional waterfront lifestyle.
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Location Vietnam Client
Apollo Construction Consultant Limited Liability Company.
BDP was appointed to develop a concept masterplan for a 22 hectare site at Nghinh Phong Cape, south of the Thuy Van Seaside Park. Today, the area is recognised as a natural and cultural destination for locals and
tourists.
Inspired by the natural landscape around the site, the proposed development will offer unique hillside, ecological, cultural and waterfront lifestyle destinations for all. The project consists of various building typologies and uses, including hillside townhouses, mixed use landmark developments, a natural history museum, pedestrian streets, a waterfront promenade, green corridors and a reservoir.
Location London, UK
Client BOXPARK
Cost Confidential
Completion 2016
Boxpark opened it’s second scheme in Croydon, South East London. Sited immediately next to East Croydon station, it consists of 96 modified shipping containers and provides a home for over 40 food and beverage units, taking the thinking from the original Boxpark scheme in Shoreditch, and developing it to a new level.
Boxpark Wembley is the third Boxpark and represents a significant step forward for the company by creatively interpreting the portal framed shed. The central space can be configured to cater for a huge variety of functions including a food-hall serving high quality street food, a venue for a 2,500 capacity rave, Bingo Lingo, Fight Klub boxercise classes, pop-up cinema, Christmas markets, Baby Loves Disco, and a match-day fanzone.
Location Saudi Arabia
Client Diriyah Gate Development Authority
Completion Ongoing
BDP is working with Diriyah Gate Development Authority (DGDA) to deliver a 15,000 sqm upscale dining destination as part of the transformation of the historic city of Diriyah.
Location Manama, Bahrain
Client Eagle Hills
Cost Confidential
Completion 2021
Marassi Galleria mall is a 200,000 sqm retail development that features retail, food and beverage outlets, a food court and entertainment. The mall comprises of a series of individual buildings creating a human scale town-like structure. It consists of seven interlocking ‘malls’ to form the overall retail experience. Each mall has its own identity and character.
Location Qatar
Client The Supreme Committee for
Delivery & Legacy
Cost
Confidential
Completion 2021
Education City Stadium is an ultra-modern facility designed for the Quarter Finals of the FIFA World Cup 2022 tournament in Doha, Qatar. This is the second World Cup Stadium to be designed alongside Al Rayyan Stadium. This major regeneration on a World Heritage site in Edinburgh creates a distinct area in the Scottish capital, incorporating new and existing development and several listed buildings. In addition to retail, it includes homes, leisure and catering arranged around a crescent shaped galleria.
Ghadan 21 is a very large, complex project to revamp the existing public realm and streetscape of the 6 Km Airport Road (Shaikh Rashid Bin Saeed Street) in Abu Dhabi. This is the largest retail and commercial precinct of Downtown Abu Dhabi and also an important tourist destination. The scope includes six important themed vehicular junctions and the streetscape between them. This design focus includes improving accessibility, activation of parks, climate remediation, place making and improving network connectivity and creating a distinctive brand identity. This is achieved through design details incorporating paving, feature walls, dedicated cycle tracks, art installations, water features to mitigate temperature and shading devices for protection from sun and wind.
Fulham Reach is a high-quality, mixed use development in a striking riverside location in Hammersmith & Fulham, delivering a vibrant and sustainable environment for residents, visitors and the local community. The development of Fulham Reach has opened up 150m of previously blocked access to the River Front creating landscaped public walkway which allows the public to enjoy a new stretch of the river.
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Location
Alperton, UK
Client
St George
Northfields Limited
Cost
Confidential
Completion date
Ongoing
The vision for Grand Union was to open and transform a previously derelict 22-acre site, reconnecting the local area with the Grand Union Canal and River Brent, creating and improving routes to Stonebridge Park station and providing new homes, new employment space, public open spaces and local amenities.
This canal side housing development comprises 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.
Location
Dublin, Ireland
Client Friends First Life
Assurance Company
Completion
2018
Royal Hibernian Way is located within the heart of the Dublin city centre retail core with prominent frontage in an emerging retail and mixed use district. The refurbishment and rebranding project transforms Royal Hibernian Way into a high quality destination, revitalising an important pedestrian link key to the city.
Client
Completion October 2023
Manchester-based arts and music company, Factory International’s new home at Aviva Studios. The venue is comprised of two buildings. Its main event space, the Warehouse, is one large, 21-meter tall, flexible container, left bare to be adapted by its users as they see fit. It can be used as a single space or subdivided into two, with full-height moveable partitions that provide acoustic insulation. This 14,00sqm building is the UK’s largest investment in a national cultural project since the opening of Tate Modern in 2000.
BDP Pattern is the sport and entertainment division of BDP, an international design practice working across multiple sectors with offices across the globe.
Our sport and entertainment projects deliver the best in spectator experience, fostering a sense of theatre and occasion, with rigorous technical and functional excellence.
Responding to a place’s culture and climate, we create memorable sporting and hospitality venues. We design at every scale and at every stage in the process of making places, from visioning and briefing to design, delivery and operation.
BDP works closely with a wide range of high-profile clients to deliver a range of projects across sport, leisure, entertainment, hospitality, heritage, healthcare, education and culture sectors.
BDP has won over 1,000 awards for design quality –a selection of our awards is listed below.
RIBA
• Liverpool One Masterplan (Shortlist for Stirling Prize)
• Piccadilly Station, Manchester
• Boxpark, Croydon (London Region)
Civic Trust
• Liverpool One (Special Award for Sustainability)
• Victoria Square, Belfast (Civic Trust Commendation)
• Debenhams, Liverpool One (Groupe 6 architects with BDP)
World Architecture Festival
• La Vache Noire, Arcueil, Paris (Finalist – Retail)
RICS National
• Victoria Square, Belfast (Commended – Regeneration)
• Liverpool One (Winner – Regeneration)
RICS Regional
• Westgate, Oxford (Project of the Year – South East Region)
• The Lexicon, Bracknell (Regeneration Award)
• Union Square, Aberdeen (Highly Commended – Regeneration)
• Chapelfield, Norwich (Regeneration)
MAPIC
• Boxpark, Wembley (Best F+B Concept)
• Liverpool One (Best Urban Regeneration Initiative)
• Victoria Square, Belfast (Belfast City Council for Best Urban Initiative and Commendation Urban Design/Connectivity)
• Waterfront City, Melbourne (Commendation – Large Centre)
• Chapelfield, Norwich (Commendation – Urban Design/Connectivity)
Revo Gold Award
• The Lexicon, Bracknell (Re:new and Best of the Best)
• Boxpark, Croydon (Re:lax)
• East Kilbride Leisure Hub, Olympia Kilbride Centre (Re:fresh)
• Guildhall Shopping Centre, Exeter (Catering and Leisure)
RTPI Planning
• Victoria Square, Belfast (Silver Jubilee Cup and City and Metropolitan Areas winner)
• Liverpool One (City and Metropolitan Areas)
BURA for Best Practice in Regeneration
• Liverpool One
MIPIM (International Property Market)
• Gum Store, Moscow (Finalist – Best Shopping Centre)
• Almada Forum, Lisbon, Portugal (Best Shopping Centre Award)
• TresAguas, Madrid (Best Shopping Centre, Runner Up)
• Vasco da Gama, Lisbon (Best Shopping Centre)
MIPIM/AR Future Project
• Liverpool One (Big Urban Projects: Commendation)
• New Retail Quarter, Sheffield (Mixed Use and Retail: Winner)
BCSC Gold
• Waitrose, Bracknell (Commendation – Sustainability)
• Parkway, Newbury (Winner – New Centre)
• Liverpool One (Supreme Award Winner)
• Silverburn, Glasgow
• Victoria Square, Belfast
BCSC Award
• Piccadilly Station, Manchester (Special Award)
BCSC Town Centre Environment
• Liverpool One (Gold Standard)
ICSC VIVA
• Liverpool One (Best of the Best)
• Inter IKEA Centre, Poland (Commendation)
British Archaeological
• Westgate, Oxford (Best Archaeological Project)
LABC Building Excellence
• The Rock, Bury (Best Large Commercial Building)
• International Council of Shopping Centres (Europe)
• Liverpool One (New Development: Extra Large and ReStore)
• Victoria Square, Belfast (Commendation –Large Developments and ReStore)
International Council of Shopping Centres (USA)
• La Part Dieu, Lyon
• Vasco Da Gama, Lisbon
IStructE Structural
• Victoria Square, Belfast (Finalist – Commercial or Retail Structure)
Concrete Society
• Cardiff Central Library, Cardiff (Certificate of Excellence: Building Category)
Garry Wilding Head of Retail
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Focussing on place creation, community and sustainability, we draw on our understanding of the market, trends and changes in society to unlock and create urban developments of the highest quality.”
Garry Wilding Head of Retail
We are forward thinking, progressive, and understand the market, trends, and societal changes