Office Snapshots » Clive Wilkinson Architects http://www.officesnapshots.com i know where you work Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Foote, Cone & Belding Offices http://www.officesnapshots.com/2011/01/04/foote-cone-belding-offices/ http://www.officesnapshots.com/2011/01/04/foote-cone-belding-offices/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:00:00 +0000 Stephen Searer http://www.officesnapshots.com/?p=3839 Designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects, the offices of Foote, Cone & Belding (now simply FCB) are an example of some unique designs from 2001. While the description below mentions some furniture as being sheeplike, I like to think of it as more coconut-donutesque (trademark pending).

“A 100,000 SF warehouse and laboratory building in Irvine was converted into the new creative offices for global agency FCB Worldwide. Clive Wilkinson Architects surgically reconfigured the two-story laboratory/ warehouse relationship and created a range of different collaboration spaces.

Inspired by the Southern Californian context, these spaces formed a sequence of diverse architectural episodes, reflecting the fragmented world of advertising. The public environment included a conference room enclosed by 150 custom surfboards suspended on steel cables, and a suite of custom designed ‘sheep’ furniture that graze through the office landscape as a reminder of the area’s recent agricultural history.”

Photography by Benny Chan.

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]]> http://www.officesnapshots.com/2011/01/04/foote-cone-belding-offices/feed/ 0 JWT’s New Advertising Office (pics and video) http://www.officesnapshots.com/2010/01/25/jwts-new-advertising-office-pics-and-video/ http://www.officesnapshots.com/2010/01/25/jwts-new-advertising-office-pics-and-video/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:30:32 +0000 Stephen Searer http://www.officesnapshots.com/?p=2061 When the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson decided to rebrand themselves as JWT, they decided that it was important to have a unique and functional office space to match. Well, what they and Clive Wilkinson Architects came up with is not only functional, but very, very unique.

Their New York office space takes up nearly 250,000 square feet houses somewhere around 1000 employees. In an effort to keep creative harmonies maximized, this space has no private offices, but instead areas where groups of creative minds can assemble in both large and small numbers. As you can see, the office has a number of bright colors, as well as a ‘storytelling’ theme woven throughout. You see, JWT doesn’t want to just create advertisements, they want to create stories that people can interact with.

Beyond all of the big ideas and themes, the space has some really fun elements from the space invaders wall, to the thin wall with the story cutouts flopping all over. They also have padded ceilings that you’d be crazy not to love. They also seem to have a bar that was designed in space, or at least the future. You know, that place where people wear those silvery outfits. Enjoy the pics and video.

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IMAGE CREDIT: Images taken by the exemplary Eric Laignel. Hat tip: FastCompany.

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