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Five designers from HOK’s St. Louis office – Brian Ballok, Lauren Field, Christoph Ibele, Brad Liebman and Leslie Wheeler – competed in the firm-wide Net Zero Design Competition as the team “Feedback Hydronics.”The net-zero competition challenged HOK’s teams to create a conceptual net-zero energy design for a building on a site in their local communities. Teams were required to use HOK’s Sustainab...

12 NOVEMBER 2014Two HOK Hospitality Projects Win Prestigious Gold Key AwardsHOK’s Rosewood Abu Dhabi and Jewel Suite by Martin Katz at The New York Palace have won Gold Key Awards, a top design honor in the hospitality industry.The International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show (IHMRS) announced winners for the 34th annual Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Hospitality Design on November 10 at the Ma...

On March 11, 2011, tsunami waves triggered by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake – the strongest in Japan for 140 years – slammed into Sendai Airport in northeastern Japan. In a terrifying scene viewed by millions online, waves up to 33 feet high engulfed the airport, reaching the second level of the passenger terminal where some 1,300 people were stranded for two days before being rescued.On April 22, 2...

Robert Chicas, a director of Aviation + Transportation at HOK, explains how airport design has evolved over the past 20 years and offers predictions for the future.Can you tell us about HOK over the past 20 years?In 2015, we will celebrate our 60th anniversary. HOK’s three founding partners all were graduates of Washington University in St. Louis and that is where the company was formed – in the h...