Barbican Renewal - Wayfinding Designer

Descriptions

The City invites Bidders to submit a Selection Questionnaire for the provision of Wayfinding Designer services to deliver the first major phase of work on Barbican Renewal. For over 40 years the Barbican Centre has been offering a world-class programme of unique breadth, spanning every possible creative discipline, staged in an iconic estate of globally recognised significance. Since it opened, however, the buildings comprising the Barbican Centre have deteriorated significantly, and an ambitious and strategic programme of restoration, transformation and reactivation is needed. The proposed Barbican Renewal programme will be delivered as a series of major capital projects addressing each of the Barbican’s unique spaces, delivering a sensitive and sustainable programme of conservation and transformation for one of the UK’s most significant post war buildings. These projects will affect how our visitors engage with us, and provide the impetus for the development of a new brand and wayfinding strategy and design. The Barbican Renewal capital programme presents an opportunity for the Barbican Centre to clarify and assert its purpose and identity, following the development of new strategic goals and values. As part of this, the Renewal programme is initiating a project to deliver major wayfinding improvements across the site and in the immediately surrounding public realm. This new wayfinding strategy will create intuitive and accessible user journeys from the boundary of the site into the Barbican Centre, improving signage and navigation across all of the Barbican Centre’s internal and external spaces.