Clive was recently interviewed by Bobby Allyn of NPR on the future of the office and work-life balance. The outcome was this thought-provoking piece: Architect behind Googleplex now says it's 'dangerous' to work at such a posh office ...
Last week, Dr Joanne Smith, CEO and visionary leader of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), passed away after a long battle with cancer. Our firm was fortunate enough to have worked with her on her inspirational AbilityLab project, which opened in March 2017 to national and international accolades.“She envisioned the world’s first-ever “translational” research hospital in which physicians, scientists, innovators, technologists and clinicians work together in the same...
A big thank you to INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE for featuring our most recently designed residence in their latest HOMES issue! Click here to read all about it!Photo by Joe Fletcher...
Clive Wilkinson Architects is very proud to announce the promotions, effective immediately, of Amber Wernick, Ben Kalenik and Caroline Morris to Senior Associate level. These three exceptional members of our design community have performed outstanding service to our Clients, our Projects and to the development of our internal capabilities over the past several years. Amber, Ben and Caroline are being elevated from Associate to Senior Associate level.Amber WernickAmber is an award-winning interior designer and strategist with...
Clive Wilkinson Architects is currently seeking to interview candidates for the following positions: Project Coordinator/Job Captain (5+ years of relevant experience in architecture and/or interior design) Senior Project Designer/Project Architect (10+ years of relevant experience in architecture and/or interior design) We are a highly collaborative, design-focused practice looking to expand our talented team in our spacious Culver City studio. With an international reputation in workplace design and strategy, the firm is moving into other design spheres, including master...
Watch the video below and take a filmic tour of the KCRW Media Center and Santa Monica College Center for Media and Design, produced by Spirit of Space.For two years, the Spirit of Space team filmed a series of interviews and attended events to study the design impact of the new Santa Monica College Center for Media and Design and KCRW Media Center on the artists, producers, faculty, and students on campus.Interviews with Frances...
We are very excited to have our project Flaunt Living - a 24 story mixed-use tower, designed for the owners of Flaunt Magazine, that folds several living, working and recreational programs together in one building - included in, “Low Rise, Mid Rise, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today," at the Helms Design Center in Culver City.In the show, 30+ design teams display Low Rise dwellings from ADUs to four-story multifamily dwellings; Mid Rise affordable...
The entire four-part series on the New Workplace Kit of Parts, featuring 12 reimagined spaces to support and enhance new ways of working in the post-COVID-19 workplace, is now available at Work Design Magazine. Congratulations to CWa Associates Caroline Morris and Amber Wernick for their great work, and a big thank you to Work Design Magazine for helping us get the word out. Click the links ahead for Part Three - Transition Spaces, and Part...
Today Work Design Magazine published the second article in their four-part series on the New Workplace Kit of Parts, featuring 12 reimagined spaces to support and enhance new ways of working in the post-COVID-19 workplace, authored by CWa Associates Caroline Morris and Amber Wernick. Click the link above to read the article, and stay tuned for parts three and four!...
Last week, Work Design Magazine posted the first in a series of four articles on our 12 Building Blocks of the New Workplace, authored by CWa Associates Caroline Morris and Amber Wernick. Click the link above to read the article, and stay tuned for parts two, three and four!The image shown here illustrates the ‘acoustic heat mapping’ process we developed for our planning of the original Googleplex in 2004, specifically to ensure that quiet, focused...
We have seen the open office done well, and, too often, we have also seen it done poorly. At Clive Wilkinson Architects we are proud of and stand by the many innovative open offices we have designed with our amazing clients around the globe. As we reemerge from the paradigm shifting COVID-19 pandemic, there is no doubt that now is the time to transform the workplace – to look carefully at what parts we have outgrown and should...
After a year of uncertainty in the pandemic, two things are clear – the office will live on, and we will not be returning to the way things were. The COVID-19 remote working experiment has put into focus what can – and can’t – be done without a physical workplace. The powerful social and collaborative benefits the workplace offers have also made themselves painfully clear as many of us have been forced to get by...