24 October 1996

RTKL in huge retail centre job

RKTL’s Dallas headquarters has worked with its Los Angeles office to design a 94m retail and entertainment project. At 167 000m2, the Grapevine Mills complex located between Dallas and Fort

Legal firm witnesses a new identity

Newly merged law firm Dibb Lupton Alsop, the seventh largest in the UK, has unveiled its new corporate identity designed by Spencer Landor. The fast-track project followed last month’s merger

WTS takeover talks continue

There is still no deal between Rodney Fitch and packaging group Wickens Tutt Southgate, though talks about a takeover continue. A WTS spokeswoman says only: ‘Wickens Tutt Southgate is still

Trainspotters are off the rails

Sometimes you can’t even take a painted train carriage into the open air to photograph it, for fear of zoom lenses and other nosy parkers. Not only must you stay

Net gains for fish logo creators

That Fish is scaling global heights. After swimming to the surface as Addison’s logo, designed by Michael Wolff in the late Eighties, in September it was plunged by Wolff Olins

Briefs

Thursday 7 November 6.30pm If signs grab you, you might be interested in this Sign Design Society event. Railtrack’s architecture and design manager Clive Brandon and signing and graphics co-ordinator

Italians win DoE job

Italian architect Tagliaventi & Associates of Bologna has won the design competition to replace the Department of the Environment’s HQ in London’s Marsham Street, due for demolition next year.

Brief

Limestone floors, gold leaf wall panels and a glamourous sweeping staircase dominate the new Valentino store in London’s Sloane Street, designed by Hosker Moore & Kent.

Multimedia kiosks set to boom

Retail designers must sharpen up their act if they want to exploit the predicted boom in multimedia retail kiosks. Findings from a European Commission-backed trial show multimedia kiosks are set

Wagamama looks to diversify

Wagamama is looking at ways of diversifying its brand into other areas while building up its Japanese noodle bar chain. The company is currently looking at how it could expand

Pentagram maps out small-town America

Disney’s new planned community, conceived to embody the best qualities of small town America, has environmental graphics and a town seal designed by Pentagram in New York. Celebration in Florida

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