Concrete in Buildings, 1960s-70s

Grenfell, Baines & Hergraves was a middle scale architects practice operating out of Preston in Lancashire.

The senior partner Grenfell Baines felt that an architectural practice should cover other building activities - engineering, surveying and interior design.

Hargreaves did not; I think he went off to make model railway engines - Grenfell Baines went on to organise Building Design Partnership, or BDP. It became an enormous organisation, never lost its Northern roots and operated on a world-wide scale.

Other practices followed suit (this probably was the beginning of the services industry, in a building sense).

The Humanities Building at Manchester University

One project I was asked to participate in was the Humanities Building part of Manchester University, a two storey and five storey educational block.

	The panels were of red granite aggregated, acid washed to expose the Granite particles.
1	No 1: various sculptured panels assembled.
2	No 2: A detail,
3	and No 3: repeating panels on the gable end of the five story block.