Architects are top of the table

May 28 2008 by Tony McDonough, Liverpool Daily Post

THE Liverpool office of architecture practice BDP has contributed to the company gaining this year’s top position in the AJ100 architects league table.

Nationally, the practice has offices in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Sheffield and Winchester and was ranked first in three categories: number of architects, fee income and fee income from PFI projects.

This is the eighth year in succession that BDP has come out on top.

In the North West region, BDP also came top as the practice with the most number of registered architects employed.

This year is BDP’s 10th in Liverpool, where it now employs 30 staff. During that time the firm, based in St Peters’ Square, Seel Street, has not only delivered some of the most prominent and internationally recognisable developments the city has seen, including Liverpool One, but also a wide range of projects across the city. These include masterplanning and landscape design of Liverpool One, architectural design of key buildings in the first phase of Liverpool One, the design of the new Aintree grandstand complex and the Ropewalks scheme.

BDP’s Merseyside-born chairman, Tony McGuirk, said: “Having an office and design presence in Liverpool has been an important step. It has allowed us to play a major part in the regeneration of this great city.”