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LSO St Luke’s Signage & Wayfinding Strategy

Client

London Symphony Orchestra

Role

Signage design, wayfinding strategy, design guidelines

Location

Old Street, London, UK

Project

LSO St Luke’s is a Grade I listed Hawksmoor church, carefully restored as the UBS and LSO Music Education Centre. As a venue hosting concerts, workshops, and community events, it welcomes a wide and changing audience.

The site needed a clear signage and wayfinding design solution that could support visitors from arrival to entry, while respecting the historic fabric of the building and its sensitive urban setting. Any new intervention also had to align with the dynamic visual language of the LSO brand without overpowering the architecture.

LSO St Luke's outdoor railing signage
LSO St Luke's signage
LSO St Luke's visitor signage
LSO St Luke's Clore Gamelan Room signage

Our approach

ABG Design developed a tailored wayfinding strategy that focused on clarity, restraint, and brand alignment. We reviewed arrival points, sightlines, and visitor movement to identify where signage was genuinely needed and where the building itself could lead. The design approach balanced minimal intervention with strong legibility, ensuring signs were intuitive for first-time visitors and event audiences.

Visually, we took cues from the LSO’s communications programme, translating its energy into a refined three-dimensional signage design. Colour was used sensitively, drawing from the LSO palette while remaining harmonious with the stonework and historic context of St Luke’s.

LSO St Luke's hallway signage

Solution

ABG Design delivered a building-wide signage and wayfinding scheme for LSO St Luke’s, covering both external arrival points and internal visitor routes. The system provides clear, confident navigation throughout the venue, supporting concert audiences, workshop participants, and community users alike.

Three-dimensional signage elements, finished to a high standard, give the building a strong but respectful presence within its historic setting. By combining a sensitive material and colour palette with clear hierarchy and legibility, the wayfinding scheme enhances orientation, reinforces the LSO brand, and creates a cohesive visitor journey from street to seat.

LSO St Luke's Jerwood Hall signage
LSO St Luke's signage and wayfinding
LSO St Luke's Conductor's Green Room signage