Foote, Cone & Belding Worldwide
Category
Workplace
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Year
2001
Area
100,000 SF
Photographer
Benny Chan/Fotoworks
A 100,000-square-fiit warehouse and laboratory building in Irvine was converted into the new creative offices for global agency Foote, Cone & Belding (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.
