Signage + Wayfinding

The Museum at Wordsworth Grasmere, the second phase of work at the former Lake District home of the great English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, is now complete and open to the public from 18 May 2021, with all gallery, exhibition design and interpretative overviews by Nissen Richards Studio and the building’s remodelling and extension by Purcell. The first phase of re-design work by Nissen Richards Studio at Wordsworth Grasmere opened in summer 2020 and encompassed the conservation and reinterpretation of Dove Cottage itself, where William and Dorothy once lived, plus the design of a new identity for Wordsworth Grasmere and all signage and wayfinding for the scheme, which makes use of locally-sourced Lakela... Mehr

Evolent Health added two floors to their Chicago headquarters and needed to carry the brand of their single existing floor to the new space. Working with leadership, bold, sophisticated branding elements were developed to express their culture and values. Mehr

Feeding America offers help to those in need through a nationwide network of food banks. Their mission is simple: to feed America’s hungry and engage the country in the fight to end hunger. Branded elements in their updated office bring Feeding America’s stories to life, showcasing their brand patterns, extensive color palette, and beautiful photography. Mehr

The brief for this project came from an external consultant's report on developing on a history trail for the area. The consultants had suggested over 25 different historical markers for the popular suburb, and from the beginning the council wanted an 'Interpretive Sculptural Elements Trail'. The council had two key agendas with the artwork. The first was to use a marked trail to show the public that there are a string of public, river front spaces throughout Battery Point and to reveal the complex layers that make up the area. It is now a gentrified suburb, but was once highly industrialised and a slum, and much of it was scheduled for demolition until community groups fought for its retention in the latter half of the 20th century. The s... Mehr

The Aileron Campus is the physical manifestation of a mission: to create an environment for owners of private enterprise to study professional management. Aileron reached out to SKOLNICK to create a unique place, envisioned as a retreat where entrepreneurs and business leaders can escape the everyday challenges of running a venture, focus on big picture thinking, and interface with their peers.   Collaboration with Aileron’s founders and stakeholders led to the formulation of key themes that characterize the concept of entrepreneur. These themes served to inform every aspect of the design process.   A rural setting on a former farm enhances the visitor’s sense of being removed from everyday challenges. Open views,... Mehr

Connecting Campus, River and City The former Frick Chemistry Laboratories at 20 Washington Road has been fully renovated and with strategic new additions is the new home for key academic and administrative units at Princeton University. The Julis Romo Rabinowitz (JRR) Building houses Princeton’s Economics department and related research centers, and the University’s international initiatives are newly sited in the Louis A. Simpson International Building. This project realizes the University’s Master Plan vision to create a hub for social sciences, and transform the large, monolithic building into a porous, transparent and welcoming learning and research environment.    The building is located in the north-east... Mehr

Realizing a 25-Year Dream: 610 + 590 = One Brearley! The Vision for The Brearley School was to imagine a new home that would consolidate the ‘whole’ school and all divisions into a campus of buildings in close proximity to each other. After 85 years in its purpose-built premises at 610 East 83rd St., the school had doubled the student body and outgrown its original building. After a study of the options, it was ultimately decided that the new 85,000 sf building a block away from the original building, would be a gateway to the Brearley School, and accommodate the Lower School and those spaces that benefit from a larger floor plate and the ability to accommodate technical space.   The new 12-storey expansion is conceived... Mehr

In the initial conversations with Chan Han Goh, the director of Goh Ballet Academy, she identifies that ‘dance is not about luxury, it is about the work, and what is done in the studio,’ and that is why the architecture of the Goh Ballet Academy is stripped back and minimal, creating a focus on the technical aspects of dance. The former principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada had begun her training in her parent’s basement and wanted her studio to reflect the modest necessities for training in ballet.Chan Han Goh wanted the studios to be ‘light and airy,’ where they could account for all movements, such as lifting of the human body. To account for that, the five studio spaces have a floor to ceiling height of five meters, and are... Mehr

The ROM’s new Bloor Street Terrace and Plaza, designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects, revealed. In a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by donors, board members and executives, the ROM marked the opening of the new Helga and Mike Schmidt Performance Terrace and the Reed Family Plaza. The spaces, designed by Siamak Hariri of Hariri Pontarini Architects (HPA) create a lively streetscape around the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal entrance providing a welcoming place to sit, relax, and enjoy outdoor performance programming.“For me, this project is all about welcome – the realization of the possibilities and rich opportunities of the public realm as it extends not only forward along Bloor Street but also to the west wi... Mehr

The Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics (PCPSE) consolidates the University’s Political Science Department and Department of Economics in one location. On the north-east corner of Walnut and 36th Streets, the Center comprises the reuse and renovation of the historic West Philadelphia Title and Trust Company building from the late 1920’s, and a new addition to the north of the same area. The old and new have been fully integrated on the interior, and the new façades of the addition complement the vertical style of the heritage building. The center’s north addition features a new façade that resonates with the vertical style of the historic West Philadelphia Title and Trust Co. building. The main west entrance is on... Mehr

In die Terrassen eingebettete Amphitheater im Freien bieten Sitzplätze für Menschen und für Bibliotheksprogramme im Freien. Bepflanzungen, die sich auf die einheimische Landschaft beziehen, ziehen die Berge und die Prärien Calgarys in das Stadtbild ein und säumen die umliegenden Straßen des Platzes mit Ulmen und Espen. Der Eingangsplatz, der gleichzeitig als Portal und Brücke dient, heilt die zuvor geteilte Naht zwischen den beiden Stadtteilen und stellt die visuelle und die Fußgängerverbindung über das gesamte Gelände wieder her.   Die dynamische, dreifach verglaste Fassade besteht aus einem modularen, sechseckigen Muster, das die Ziele der Bibliothek zum Ausdruck bringt, eine... Mehr

On-brand, unique and often playful, office designs are an extension of your culture, identity and establishes brand recognition for your clients. Deloitte combined seven divisions into one national headquarters in Toronto and created a branded environment that does just that.By working closely with interior design firm Arney Fender Katsalidis from London, England and local designers Kearns Mancini Architect, Deloitte’s staff met all their work-environment goals. It was Eventscape who engineered, fabricated and installed many of these custom architectural features in the space that make it distinctively Deloitte. TWISTED METAL FINSActing as a cool, edgy privacy wall, is a twisted metal fin wall located beside the ground floor bistro. St... Mehr