Directional signage

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about directional signage

Project • By SpaceInvaderIndividual Buildings

Buile Hill Mansion

Buile Hill Mansion, set in the grounds of Salford’s Buile Hill Park, had been derelict for 25 years before Salford City Council led an £11m transformation to bring the Grade II-listed building back into use as a café, bar and series of events spaces, aimed specifically at the weddings market, as well as making it the site of its official register office.  Buttress Architects were appointed to oversee the building’s architectural restoration, bringing it in line with contemporary building regulations, whilst Manchester-based design consultancy and hospitality experts SpaceInvader were commissioned to reimagine the interiors, developing a design concept for a flowing series of flexible function and public-facing... More

Project • By Jasper Sanders + PartnersCommercial Landscape

Exchange Quay Campus Totems

For several decades now, Exchange Quay has been a bold presence in Manchester’s workplace landscape. Its mirrored façades reflect both the city’s changing skyline and the dynamic businesses housed within its total of 472,000 sq ft of Grade A office space, contained within seven striking, medium-rise towers. A defining feature of the campus has always been its huge-scale wayfinding totems. Once a uniform, monochromatic orange, taken from the campus’s feature brand colours, the striking totems have now been transformed in the course of a new environmental branding scheme by Jasper Sanders + Partners to form a vibrant, contemporary and ever-changing experience of colour, angles and light, mirroring the campus’s... More

Product • By ALPOLIC™ | Metal Composites MaterialsALPOLIC® GRAPHIC-AL™

ALPOLIC® GRAPHIC-AL™

GRAPHIC-AL™ aluminum composite materials are lightweight panels with thinner aluminum skins designed for printed displays, architectural signs, canopies and other metal signage applications. Three different types are available to suit particular application requirements, from super-lightweight signage and displays to high-performance outdoor canopy, fascia and architectural signs.   Why GRAPHIC-AL™Museum exhibits, retail displays, wayfinding signs, gas station canopies, retail fascia, architectural signage – all have their unique material requirements. Whether lightweight or high-performance, indoor or outdoor, painted or printed, GRAPHIC-AL™ has an aluminum composite material designed to handle the job beauti... More

Project • By Valerio Dewalt TrainOffices

Glassdoor Chicago

Situated in Chicago’s Fulton Market—a neighborhood characterized by its industrial warehouses-turned-hip design and tech workspaces—Glassdoor’s new Chicago office reflects the transparency and humility of their company culture, while honing in on the neighborhood’s historic identity. An abstracted reinterpretation of their former Chicago office, this space’s curved glass and rounded walls soften the formerly industrial space and nod to the natural evolution of the company. The building’s offset core allows for an open floor plan with simple, yet meaningful circulation that takes on the shape of the iconic Chicago “Y”. The use of natural, raw, and transparent materials reflect the transpa... More

Project • By CCHEOffices

Incyte Biosciences International

The building that housed the Pastagala factory in Morges was converted into an administrative building intended to lodge the European headquarters of Incyte Biosciences International. Vincent Jendly CCHE, in charge of the interior transformation of the approximately 10,000 m2 surface area, has developed a project that preserves the industrial memory of the place and favours clarity and transparency. This project is part of the transformation of the shell of the building and the site jointly carried out by Tribu Architecture and CCHE. Vincent Jendly The desire to preserve the memory of the building is present throughout the development of the project, from the choice of materials to the integration of the technique, with visible... More

Project • By Spark ChicagoOffices

Komatsu

Komatsu is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of earth-moving equipment. Branded elements spanning four floors draw inspiration from Komatsu's global reach, employee culture, physical impact on earth, and appreciation for their clients, while seamlessly integrating into the architecture. More

Project • By Spark ChicagoOffices

CDW

CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Digital technology and connectivity inspire the brand treatment throughout the 8-story campus, celebrating CDW’s history, innovative technical solutions and culture. More

Project • By XDGAOffices

146_Province Headquarters

The new building replaces a complex of modernist building volumes that used to occupy the entire site and could not be adapted to today’s sustainability standards. As the Antwerp city centre has few public green surfaces, the transformation of the site from a merely private, mineral and infrastructural area into a public garden is a crucial requirement of the competition brief. Surrounded by fragments of public green, the parcel is key to the formation of a larger, coherent park. Another – contradictory - demand was to maintain a more recent representational pavilion, which was positioned as an obstacle in between the fragments. © XDGA-Matthias Van Rossen By situating the full program in a compact volume across the p... More