The concept of placemaking goes beyond simply naming an area. It’s about forging an identity and creating a sense of place, purpose, and community.
Our aim is to instil a sense of ownership and belonging across a number of different environments – from mixed-use and residential, to commercial and social spaces.
Our placemaking approach involves taking a brand narrative and transforming it into something experiential: taking ideas and applying them across different materials, typographies, public spaces, and artforms.
In this way, we help clients attract attention from new customers, tenants, and even investors; giving them a point of difference that transcends the built environment and creates communities.
Placemaking Projects
Dubai Design District
UAE
An award-winning wayfinding masterplan for the new home of the creative industries in Dubai.
Wembley Park
London, UK
Placemaking and identity for a world-class destination.
Barbican
London, UK
Introducing a bold new identity to one of London's best-known cultural landmarks.
The White Chapel Building
London, UK
Super-sized signage design for The White Chapel Building, London
intu Broadmarsh
Nottingham, UK
Endpoint’s pre-pandemic placemaking work may not have come to fruition at intu Broadmarsh, but the conceptual work stands out in our portfolio.
Haven
UK
Endpoint worked on placemaking concept designs for Haven, one of the UK’s biggest holiday park brands.
Placemaking Views & News
Placemaking: Creating communities in the Build to Rent market
We take a look at the importance of placemaking and building communities in the burgeoning Build to Rent (BTR) sector.
Place branding in a post-lockdown world: Building a stronger sense of purpose and community for new developments
The world is going through one of its worst pandemics, so Tim Hill at Noë & Associates and Alison Richings at Endpoint discuss place branding and placemaking in a post-pandemic world.
Endpoint’s Stephanie Lessmann to speak at 2018 SEGD Wayfinding & Placemaking conference
Endpoint’s international profile continues to grow – one of our wayfinding experts will take to the stage at the 2018 SEGD conference on 19-20 July in LA.
