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Clive Wilkinson (born 1954, Cape Town, South Africa) is an architect and interior designer. Acknowledged as a pioneer in workplace design by the IIDA, Wilkinson is perhaps best known for designing the interior of one of the buildings in the Googleplex, the headquarters of Google in Silicon Valley. He has also designed several top global advertising agencies, including JWT in New York City, and Mother Advertising in London. Wilkinson's introduction of urban planning concepts to organize and animate large office projects began with the design of TBWA\Chiat\Day's Los Angeles headquarters in 1998.
In 1990, after working in Sydney, Australia for six months, Wilkinson relocated from London to Los Angeles to work briefly for Frank Gehry as a Project Manager on the Disney Concert Hall and Chiat/Day’s Venice, Los Angeles offices. By 1991, Wilkinson had established his own firm in Los Angeles. His first project to win international acclaim was the headquarters for the world-renowned advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day. Wilkinson transformed an empty warehouse in Los Angeles into an Advertising City where open offices co-exist with a basketball court and Main Street
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In 2012 the firm moved from its West Hollywood headquarters to Culver City - into its own building on Washington Boulevard, which the firm designed and built from ground up and which includes the coffee shop Cognoscenti at street level.
Recent projects include the design of new offices for radio station and NPR affiliate, KCRW in Santa Monica, including a new facility for Santa Monica College's Academy of Entertainment Technology campus which was awarded 2018 Best of Year Winner for Higher Education and designing new buildings for the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
The firm has collaborated with several other architects on prestigious projects: with WRNS Studio on new buildings for Intuit in Silicon Valley, with Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) on the 1M sq.ft. Google Caribbean project, and with Morphosis Architects on the 560,000 sq.ft. headquarters building for lululemon in Vancouver, Canada.
In 2019, Wilkinson completed his second house for his family in West Los Angeles, which received Interior Design Magazine's 2019 Best of Year Award and was featured on the cover of the November/December 2019 issue of Dwell Magazine.
In 2019, Wilkinson released his first book ‘The Theatre of Work’ with Frame Publishers in Holland. The book examines the history of the workplace and outlines a thesis for elevating the experience of the office to the level of compelling theatre. It includes fourteen case studies of his firm's work, based on seven design principles.
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