Cartlidge Levene

Entitled 'Buildings', the monograph
is published by Quart Verlag and features stunning photography by David Grandorge and a beautiful collection of drawings and sketches revealing the working process of the practice. The monograph is our latest project for Sergison Bates architects in our long standing and fruitful relationship. 

The office development, owned
by Derwent London, was the
former offices of Companies House and was originally refurbished
in 1999. A further enhancement
and refurbishment has just been completed and we were appointed
to design a new identity and
signage scheme.

The typographic identity is applied
to travertine walls as fret-cut BMA bronze lettering, halo-lit to provide impact in the loggia off City Road.

The first phase will be installed in September 2012 at the new Dyson Building in Battersea, which will house the School of Fine Art. This will be followed by a phased delivery across all of their buildings in Kensington and Battersea.

Cartlidge Levene are designing a common graphic language for signage to work across a diverse range of building types, including Haworth Tompkins' new Dyson Building in Battersea, the Georgian Queen's Gate Building and the 1961 Grade II listed Darwin Building, in Kensington, designed by HT Cadbury-Brown.

The signage system will have a flexible element to accommodate ongoing changes to programme locations as the Battersea site is further developed and the Kensington campus is re-organised.

Cartlidge Levene and Studio Myerscough have designed the wayfinding and signage for The Tanks which once held the oil that fired Bankside power station. We have developed a graphic language and material application to suit the raw, industrial aesthetic. Two simple mediums are used for graphic language: projection and fly posters. Both are direct methods of application which reveal the raw, contoured, surfaces of the 'as found' concrete walls. The Tanks project is the precursor of our work for Herzog & de Meuron's iconic new building which will sit directly above the Tanks. The new eleven-storey Tate Modern extension is due to open in 2016.www.tate.org.uk