Broadgate Central

Enter a new world

Place brand
Tube billboard reads 'Enter a world of fashion at Broadgate Central, next to Liverpool Street Station'

The City of London is one of the world’s great centres of business, but it lacked a place for world-class lifestyle experiences. As part of the £1.5bn transformation of Broadgate, we led the retail destination branding for Broadgate Central — London’s next-generation destination for fashion, dining and wellness, created with British Land.

Client
  • British Land
Location
London
Expertise

An invitation into new worlds

This beautifully designed take on the classic London arcade connects Liverpool Street station — the UK's busiest railway station with 80 million annual passengers — and Broadgate, with its famous public plazas and global head offices.

Our brief was simple: capture the scale and experiential difference this place will bring to London.

The answer was a luxury retail brand rooted in a sense of invitation: to ‘enter a new world of fashion, dining and wellness’. Where every space is like venturing into and experiencing the world and viewpoint of each brand.

This was combined with a new name that emphasises its stature and connectivity — a place brand built for one of London's landmark destinations. Introducing, Broadgate Central.

Hand holding grid-patterned Broadgate Central shopping bag — retail destination branding
Model in poncho leaning in archway of a surreal pink architectural set, retail brand campaign

Multi-dimensional and moving

It was clear we needed to create Broadgate Central’s own world — a visual language that you step inside, not just look at. 

Taking inspiration from the curvilinear language of the architecture — we created our own dynamic grid, creating a flexible but distinctive canvas for seasonally changing product and lifestyle imagery. This is combined with a wordmark by Cartlidge Levene and shapes taken from the Broadgate masterbrand rendered three-dimensionally to create a distinctive and long-lasting retail brand campaign.

Crowds in Broadgate plaza by Liverpool Street station, glass retail buildings, place branding London
Model crouching in surreal pink set with sphere on plinth and topiary tree, geometric grid backdrop

“DNCO brought to life a brand for Broadgate Central that feels bold, dynamic and future-focused. A true creative partnership from the start, it has been hugely exciting creating a new name and identity for a place the City and wider London will experience — and the result really captures the buzz of what’s to come.”

Gemma Hagan
Brand and Customer Communications Marketing Lead at British Land

Broadgate Central CGI by AHMM Architects