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Project

Nottingham Playhouse

Nottingham City Council built the present Playhouse to a striking design by the award winning architect Peter Moro in 1962. In 1996 it received grade II listed status in recognition of its outstanding architectural quality. This fact alone always presents its own problems for a signage project.

Working with Gradwell Design, the scheme involved acrylic directories, paper management location and information signage as well as built up polished stainless steel letters for location headers such as the box office and bars.

Externally the signage encompassed built up stainless steel lettering with LED halo illumination. This also reflected the substantial dynamic lighting scheme for the whole building and the lettering halo also changes colour.

Listed building demands were to have no mechanical fixings internally, this was overcome by usage of specialist adhesives. Externally, all fixings had to be positioned into mortar rather than brick.

Signs: internal signage wayfinding, external facia signage

Description

Internal:
Floor directories
Directional signs
Destination signage
Self management signs
External:
Buillding signage

Specification

Tinted acrylic directories with acrylic headers and paper inserts
Stainless steel plaques and built up letters

Externally built up stainless steel letters with rear halos as LED colour change

Value

£35,000

Images

view the entire project in the gallery

internal

internal halo lit with stainless steel letters

external illuminated signage

colour changing neon