Workplace

Workplace strategy is about exploring what will make an organization successful in their workplace. BDP brings depth to these explorations through observation, testing and collaboration as part of an integrated delivery team.

Adaptive reuse in workplace design involves transforming existing structures into functional and modern work environments. It embraces sustainability by repurposing buildings, reducing waste, and preserving architectural heritage. This approach enhances productivity, creativity, and employee satisfaction while fostering a sense of connection to the past within a contemporary workspace.

BDP’s interior design practice has 50 years creating innovative workplace interiors.

BBC Birmingham at The Mailbox

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Location Birmingham, UK

Creation of a new home for BBC Birmingham providing new flexible office accommodation, TV and radio studios over four floors. The challenge involved moving highly technical spaces into a multi-use, multi-tenant building with restrictive ceiling heights, and a principal focus was introducing open plan working, desk sharing/flexible working through a wide range of work settings.

Entopia Building, CISL

Location

Cambridge, UK

Client University of Cambridge Completion 2022

This WELL certified refurbishment project to provide a new home for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is a world first for a retrofitted sustainable office building, setting new standards for low energy use, carbon emissions and impact on natural resources as well as user experience and wellbeing measured against multiple benchmarks.

Old Admiralty Building

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London, UK

Client Department for Education

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.

Palace of Westminster

Restoration and Renewal Location

London, UK

Client

Strategic Estates

Completion

Ongoing

The palace of Westminster Restoration and Renewal Program 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.

60 Atlantic

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Location

Toronto, Canada

Client

Hullmark

Developments Ltd.

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 super graphic “60” on the exterior by artist Pascal Paquette gives the building a bold identity. The design highlights both old and new with constricting brick that patch openings and cast-iron floor plates that knit together the two formerly sperate buildings and carriageway between.

545 King Street West

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Location Toronto, Canada

Client Hullmark Developments Ltd

Completion 2014

Originally built in 1921, 545 King suffered from a lack of identity and layout issues stemming from a 1981 addition. An alley revitalization, façade changes and a new window treatment have attracted commercial and hospitality clients, creating a hub of activity on Toronto’s desirable King Street West. Five-story commercial building with restaurants at grade. Refurbishment of previous loading zone as front entrance threshold.

100 Broadview Avenue

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Toronto, Canada

Client Hullmark

Developments Ltd.

Completion 2015

Orange highlights and striking forms lead from the street through the lobby in this renovated commercial building that proposes adaptive reuse can re-engage the city and become an exemplar for universal access. The new lobby relates the street to the new entrance and opens up the former basement as a lower ground level, establishing a clear urban connection and distinctive brand for the building with a bold and universally-accessible form. The public areas of 100 Broadview were rendered universally accessible through a renovation of the lobby and the introduction of wayfinding elements through shared hallways.

BBC - The Tea Factory

Location

Birmingham, UK

Client Stoford Properties Ltd.

Completion

Ongoing

Demolition of part of the existing buildings on the Site and all appropriate site clearance works, followed by the comprehensive refurbishment and extension of part of the existing buildings on the Site for offices with associated vehicle parking, storage areas and amenities for use and the construction on the Amenity Areas of the Amenity Works. BDP were the delivery architects on this project.