Twentieth Century Fox Digital Studios

Category

Workplace

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Year

2000

Area

98,000 SF

Photographer

Benny Chan/Fotoworks

American film studio Twentieth Century Fox provided Clive Wilkinson Architects with their most challenging entertainment project in 1997. Three large West Los Angeles warehouses, originally constructed in 1953 and totaling 98,000 square feet, were converted for office use to house Blue Sky/VIFX, a visual effects subsidiary. The concentrated technical infrastructure called for major air-cooling capacity, and new HVAC units were mounted on steel platforms suspended over the brick perimeter walls. The interior architecture was planned to express the beautiful old wood roof structures. The new steel and glass entry pavilion supported a 25-ton air-handling unit.

After completion, the buildings were used as a film set in 2001 for the popular Fox television series 24, where they served as the CTU Los Angeles building frequented by protagnonist Jack Bauer (played by Kiefer Sutherland).