Perkins+Will Announces Mark Griffith Joins Los Angeles Office as Corporate, Commercial and Civic Market Sector Leader

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perkins+Will Managing Director Gabrielle Bullock announces that Mark Griffith, AIA, NCARB, has joined the practice as the local leader of the corporate + commercial + civic market sector. Griffith joins as a Senior Associate and will assume a key position in driving the firm’s growth of this market sector in Southern California.

With more than 20 years of experience in designing a variety of project types, Griffith’s portfolio includes large scale mixed-use projects, convention/meeting spaces, resort hotels, restaurants, high tech manufacturing facilities, civic projects, theme park entertainment, night clubs, casinos, and theaters. Griffith joins Perkins+Will after holding positions with Leo A. Daly as Managing Principal of their Las Vegas office. In addition to exceptional design and management skills, he brings experience in land development, real estate acquisitions, entitlements, and construction management.

Notable projects include:

• "METREON" for SONY Development, a multi-story urban entertainment center in San Francisco, California.
• East Village, a 1.5 million square foot themed, mixed-use development in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• An office/multi-use complex for the University of California, Los Angeles.
• “City Center,” a $4.7 billion hotel/condominium & casino complex in Las Vegas, Nevada for MGM Mirage Design Group.
• A 128,000 square foot web hosting hotel and data center for AT&T in Redwood City, California.
• Japonais, a fine dining restaurant that doubles as a night club within the Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“Mark Griffith’s strong team management skills and extensive experience within the corporate commercial and civic practice area will have an immediate impact on our practice,” said Bullock. “Mark is the latest in a long line of professionals at the top of the industry who have determined that Perkins+Will is the place to make their future.”

About Perkins+Will

Established in 1935, Perkins+Will (www.perkinswill.com) is an integrated design firm serving clients from offices in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Dubai, Hartford, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Orlando, Research Triangle Park, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, Vancouver, and Washington, DC. With more LEED® Accredited Professionals than any firm in the world, Perkins+Will is recognized as a preeminent sustainable design firm in the country. The firm practices architecture, interiors, branded environments, planning + strategies and urban design with clients in the aviation, corporate + commercial + civic, healthcare, higher education, K-12 education, and science + technology markets. Perkins+Will routinely ranks among the world's top design firms and has received hundreds of awards, including the prestigious American Institute of Architects' "Firm of the Year Award."