HOK designers in New York, St. Louis and Atlanta are using virtual meetings with their University at Buffalo (UB) client team to improve the design process for UB’s new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
The seven-story medical school will bring 2,000 UB faculty, staff and students daily to downtown Buffalo and, at more than 500,000 square feet, will be one of the largest buildings constructed in Buffalo in decades.
Three days after Hurricane Sandy barreled into the East Coast last October, HOK’s project team was scheduled to have a meeting …
HOK is honored to be the architectural design team for the long awaited, state-of-the-art planetarium, science museum and technology center in Austin’s Museum District. Together with Austin Planetarium, a grassroots nonprofit with the goal of building a world-class science and technology museum in Central Texas, and KUD International, a private sector development firm. Executive Director, Torvald Hessel says, “The need, for a science and technology museum, specifically in Central Texas, has been recognized for thirty years.”
This public-private partnership will create a mixed-use development, which includes a residential tower, retail and restaurant facilities, more than a thousand underground parking spaces, and the science and technology museum, home to the largest planetarium in Texas. The Austin Planetarium will enhance Austin’s Museum District, which is …
You asked for it and you’ve got it! Many thanks to all who participated in the survey last month. We had great response: 174 respondents over the course of a week. Full disclosure – this survey was created for a presentation to True Textiles, Inc; you may know them as Guilford of Maine. The folks from True Textiles are truly smart, fun, nice, and have some kick-butt products. I truly enjoyed spending time with them – it’s not every day you see the CEO of a company dress up as Darth Vader and encourage employees to shoot apples off one another’s …
My last post about IFMA World Workplace 2011 focused on HOK and my FM friends. This post shares some of what I learned (always a highlight of attending conferences for me). I was only in Phoenix for a day and a half, so I didn’t hit quite as many sessions as I would have liked, but I did get to see a couple of really good ones.
I’ve included links to each of the sessions where you can learn more about the presenters and download some additional information if you’re interested in learning more.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to travel to Phoenix for IFMA World Workplace 2011. For those of you not intimately familiar with the facility management profession, IFMA is the International Facility Management Association and World Workplace is the organization’s annual conference – typically about 5,000 folks from around the world attend. IFMA is one of my favorite organizations – lots of really wonderfully nice (and smart, and interesting) people!
On Thursday 22nd September, London’s property industry came together to celebrate the inaugural HOK London Annual Party on board HOK Airways. Having celebrated a number of successes and project milestones particularly in our Aviation sector, we chose this theme for our 2011 Annual Party. On the following evening we opened our doors to the public in celebration of the London Design Festival.
We wanted to celebrate 2011 with clients, partners, consultants supporters and journalists whom we have had the pleasure of working with through this challenging yet rewarding year.
Planning began in June and we made it just in time to register to be part of the London Design Festival. Weekly meetings were …
HOK D.C.’s Rick Moy, Michael Zajkowski and Emillio Stokes were part of a team selected as the winner of the second annual NAIOP Maryland/DC Chapter Capital Challenge, an intercollegiate real estate case study competition among graduate students from local university real estate programs. HOK served as the architecture sponsor and advisor for the John Hopkins University team along with Akridge (Site Sponsor), CB Richard Ellis (Brokerage), Dewberry (Civil Engineering), James G. Davis Construction (Construction), Boston Properties (Development), M&T Bank (Finance) and Holland & Knight LLP (Legal).
HOK provided rendered plans and 3D renderings to illustrate the proposed development drafted by the John Hopkins University team, which explored real estate opportunities of an actual 8.8-acre …
Last week I had the great opportunity to travel to sunny (and warm) Orlando, Florida to present at BIFMA’s annual leadership conference. BIFMA is the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer’s Association, with a membership comprised businesses engaged in design, development, marketing, and fulfillment of office furniture; businesses that supply goods, parts, or components to the office and institutional furniture industry; businesses that provide services to the office and institutional furniture industry; and, international members.
The theme of this year’s conference was Transformative Times: Leadership, Growth, Survival. My presentation was on social media and technology – telling the story of HOK’s social media adventures, giving some ideas for best practices (and next practices), …
Once in a while you are lucky enough to meet someone who you think is the embodiment of what all the books and journals tell you would be the perfect developer. Chris Brown is that person. Not only does he genuinely understand what good design is but he also implements it. He also instinctively knows that true regeneration is about social, physical and economic aspects and not just the by-product of an architect’s pretty picture.
Chris is chief executive of Igloo Regeneration and director of Isis Waterside Regeneration, a joint venture between Igloo, British Waterways and Muse that regenerates brownfield waterside sites around the UK and of Blueprint, Igloo’s public/private partnership with the …
Recently, I was shopping at one of my favorite stores, Whole Foods (insert shameless hope that this plug gets me some free stuff), a place I consistently have an awesome customer experience.
I was standing at the meat and poultry counter with the same butcher (we’ll call him “Joe”) who helps me every Saturday. I didn’t have a specific plan; I just knew that I wanted to serve something new and interesting for dinner. Joe must have picked up on my furrowed brow, because in addition to his usual “How can I help you?” he asked if there was something in particular I’d like to know more about, was …
