Level II: Sunsphere Individual H Landmark
8-E-26-HZ
Approved
Recommendation
Staff recommends approval of Certificate 8-E-26-HZ as submitted.Applicant Request
Signs- New free-standing monolith sign. Sign will measure 96" tall by 60" wide by 18" deep and feature a 48" by 36", full-color, high-resolution EMC sign. Vinyl-clad sign features acrylic push-through letters on the front and side. Sign will be located on the east side of the Sunsphere, near the entry to the Visitors Center.
Sunsphere Individual H Landmark
- Style: Sunsphere, 1982.
- 266-foot tall hexagonal steel truss structure, topped with a 75-foot tall gold-colored glass sphere.
- Style: Sunsphere, 1982.
Applicable Guidelines
Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings.
See Guidelines- 9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features, and spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work will be differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment. 10. New additions and adjacent or related new construction will be undertaken in such a manner that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.1. Signs should be viewed as part of an overall graphics system for the building. They do not have to do all the "work" by themselves. The building's form, name and outstanding features, both decorative and functional, also support the advertising function of a sign. Signs should work with the building, rather than against it. 2. New signs should respect the size, scale and design of the historic building. Often features or details of the building will suggest a motif for new signs. 3. Sign placement is important: new signs should not obscure significant features of the historic building. (Signs above a storefront should fit within the historic signboard, for example.) 4. New signs should also respect neighboring buildings. They should not shadow or overpower adjacent structures. 5. Sign materials should be compatible with those of the historic building. Materials characteristic of the building's period and style, used in contemporary designs, can form effective new signs.
Meeting Date
August 20, 2026
COA Expires August 19, 2029
Sunsphere Individual H Landmark
810 Clinch Ave. 37902
Applicant
Benjamin Booher, Allen Sign Company
Owner City of Knoxville
