Project: Gateway entrance, all aluminum & stainless. First of twenty-two signs. Welded frame had 114 pieces.
Client: General Contractor for Airport Authority
Designer: Gresham Smith Architects
Project: Folded ¼” aluminum building identifier. Aiding pedestrian way finding in new adaptive reuse of building. Milled, paint filled copy.
Client: Red Light Management
Designer: Gropen
Project: White Carrerra. Carved, paint filled copy. New gateway at entrance to private school. Satin finish, beveled edge profile.
Client: Chatham School
Designer: VMDO Architects & Gropen
Project: High profile job site signs. Fitting code requirements of under 30 square feet. High traffic urban area.
Client: Martin Horn General Contractors
Designer: Martin Horn & Gropen
Project: Exterior sign, highway, prior to landscaping. Aluminum.
Client: Parham Construction
Designer: Gropen
Project: Definition of entry. Primary sign at pedestrian mall side of building. Four entrances. Dimensional lettering mounted to window. Vinyl lettering small copy.
Client: City of Charlottesville
Designer: City of Charlottesville
Project: Very small high detail exterior sign, pedestrian mall. Old materials – low tech approach to sophisticated logo treatment, Haute cuisine. Second floor, staircase entrance.
Client: Ten Restaurant
Designer: Formwork Architects & Gropen
Project: Small solid cedar carved sign, driveway entrance to parking area. Low speed small road. Wonderful lighting and landscape by client!
Client: The Ivy Inn
Designer: The Ivy Inn & Gropen
Project: Hand carved, gold leaf and painted solid ‘historic’ sign. Lettering is inlaid. Hilly curvy Route 53, tight (short) sight lines.
Client: Michie Tavern
Designer: Michael Erkel & Gropen
Project: One of two Gateways. Arterial approach 50- 60 mph. Prior to landscape. Native stone, blasted and paint filled. Produced in three ‘book matched’ pieces. Break away posts.
Client: Albemarle County
Designer: Gropen
Project: Directory at pedestrian entrance to historic manufacturing facility. Adaptive, mixed reuse of 100,000+ square foot, one story building. Internally lighted.
Client: Monticello Associates
Designer: Gropen
Project: Building identifier. Cut, pin mount aluminum lettering. New, grade A office space, in town.
Client: Hunter Craig
Designer: Gropen (Included logo design for building and interior sign package)
Project: Building identifier. Cut though .75” thick aluminum plate. Gusseted, industrial-look mounting plate. Adaptive reuse of federal building in down town setting.
Client: SNL Financial
Designer: Train & Spencer Architects and Gropen
Project: Custom graphic shades for interior glass office partitions.
Client: Meddius
Designer: Gropen
Project: Primary entrance sign cabinet for residential community. Cor-ten faux finish applied to fully welded aluminum cabinet. Lighting by LED. Prior to mounting on fieldstone masonry piers.
Designer: Nelson Byrd Architects & Gropen