UK's third-biggest architecture firm BDP bought by Japanese engineering giant
Business news: UK architecture firm BDP has been bought by Japanese firm Nippon Koei for £102.2 million.
Nippon Koei has acquired the entire shareholding for BDP, the two firms announced today.
Both will retain their existing identities and continue to practice under their current names, but will work together to win competitions and pitch for new commissions.
BDP partnered with Wolfgang Buttress to design The Hive, which was the UK Pavilion at the Milan Expo 2015. Photograph by Hufton +Â Crow
The companies said that together they were aiming to become the world's leading architecture engineering and design firm.
"Although separated geographically, our two firms share common values and have highly complementary strengths in terms of professional offer and sector expertise," said BDP chief executive John McManus. "By uniting the two firms, we are creating an organisation which genuinely has the potential to be greater than the sum of its parts."
Suzhou District Planning Exhibition Hall in Suzhou, China was completed in 2012
BDP was founded in 1961 as the Building Design Partnership, and established itself as a respected firm in the UK with projects like the Brutalist Preston Bus Station, completed in 1969 by in-house architects Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson.
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