This week

摘要

'My home background and voracious reading gave a strong leftward inclination to my views on life,' wrote George Grenfell Baines, who in 1961 set up Building Design Partnership (BDP). They're a curious lot, BDP; a practice that routinely manages to be the biggest in the business, yet one which, as Hugh Pearman acknowledged at the opening of its 50th birthday exhibition in the RIBA's Florence Hall last week (pictured), seems at ease with the left-leaning aims of its founder.