After the Palisades and Altadena fires swept through Los Angeles in early 2025, destroying thousands of homes, our firm, like many others, was looking for a way to help. A couple who had lost their home of 35 years in the Sunset Mesa neighborhood reached out and asked if we could help them and their neighbors leverage economies of scale to achieve affordable rebuilding costs. As a pro-bono initiative, we convened a series of virtual meetings...
We are pleased to announce that Clive Wilkinson Architects has been included by Architizer in their list of the 100 Best Architecture and Design Firms in the United States. This year, #80! Architizer selects the top 100 for their "exceptional contributions to the built environment and achievements in the A+Awards program," and we are proud to be in the company of many of our incredible peers. [caption id="attachment_39067" align="alignleft" width="855"] Microsoft Excellence Center, Vancouver, Canada.Photo: Ema...
We are thrilled to announce that our Intuit MTV-22 Bayshore Building Interiors project has been awarded the 2025 AIA National Interior Architecture Honor Award! "An AIA award is the ultimate acknowledgment of impactful, exemplary work that sets new standards and inspires others." We are grateful to the AIA for this acknowledgement, to our clients at Intuit for the opportunity and collaboration, and to our wonderful team for their fantastic work! Photo credit: Jason O'Rear ...
We are pleased to announce the 10-Year Work Anniversary of Associate Principal Benjamin Kalenik. Ben is an outstanding member of our team, and an essential support to all of our operations. We have a tradition of going big at ten years and gifting a clock rather than a wristwatch. We chose the Nelson Ball Clock for Ben, in the special edition color, Dusk. The yellow hands are a nod to the yellow beanies Ben is famous...
On Thursday, December 12, in New York City, our latest workplace project for Intuit, the MTV 22 Bayshore Building, was awarded Interior Design Magazine's Best of Year Award! A huge thanks to Interior Design Magazine, and the extraordinary Editor-in-Chief, Cindy Allen. We are immensely grateful to our clients, staff and collaborators on this fantastic project. Photo: Jason O’Rear ...
We are thrilled to announce that our latest project for Intuit, the MTV 22 Bayshore Building has been named an Interior Design Magazine 2024 Best of Year Finalist! We are incredibly grateful for our clients, our team, and our partners at WRNS Studio. Huge thanks to Interior Design Magazine Editor-in-Chief, Cindy Allen and her entire team. Photo: Jason O'Rear ...
Hanif Kureshi 1982 – 2024 Few people in one’s life make a huge impact. Hanif was one of those people. We met in New Delhi in 2011 while he was a young art director in an ad agency. Hanif had recognized a dying artistic culture around him - the humble, but elaborate, hand-painted typographic street signs proliferating in the Indian urban landscape. Initiating The HandpaintedType Project (@handpaintedtype), Hanif helped revive and elevate that culture to an acknowledged...
The recent Dezeen opinion piece, "Instead of the restrictive modernist concept of heritage, how about a postmodern one?" by Owen Hopkins, suggests an expanded framework for preserving buildings such as Terry Farrell’s 1982 TV-am studios, of which our own Clive Wilkinson was a key designer while working for Terry Ferrell in London, as a young architect. Clive's thoughts? “Dezeen’s publication is a lovely reminder of the halcyon days of the 80’s when the economy was soaring...
We are pleased to announce our inclusion in Architizer's list of the 100 Best Architecture and Design Firms in the United States. Our #63 ranking was "created according to key statistics that demonstrate each firm’s level of architectural excellence. The following metrics have been accumulated to establish each architecture firm’s ranking, in order of priority: The number of A+Awards won (2013 to 2024) The number of A+Awards finalists (2013 to 2024) The number of projects...
We are thrilled to announce that CWa Associate Principal Caroline Morris, along with our Intuit client, Steve McCollom, AIA, IIDA, Intuit Global Design Lead, will be presenting at NeoCon this year! Join Caroline and Steve for their presentation, “Designing Tomorrow: Workplace Evolution at Intuit's New HQ” at The Mart on June 11, 2024, at 11:00 CDT. The presentation explores the story behind the software company Intuit's newly completed ground-up office building. The project serves as...
"Clive Wilkinson towers at the pinnacle of workplace stars. Landmark offices for the likes of TBWA\Chiat\Day, Macquarie Group, and Microsoft cap the Interior Design Hall of Famer’s voluminous portfolio. A master of the genre, he also counts residential and institutional among his other specialties." Read the full Interior Design Magazine story here. Photo credit: Jason O'Rear ...
The MAK winter tour will take place on Saturday, December 2, and feature the homes of three contemporary architects: Thom Mayne, Charles Ward, and Clive Wilkinson. From the construction of a private canyon to the design of a spiritual retreat, the houses by these Los Angeles-based architects provide examples of domestic experiments and creative freedom unfolding within the very personal settings of their own homelife and family. Click here for tickets. Each ticket goes directly to...