23 October 2009 | Posted inBlog News & Updates, In the Studio, Video
Inside the Designer’s Studio 34:
Bill Hellmuth – Washington, DC
HOK President Bill Hellmuth talks about one of his favorite projects: the Sheraton Timika Eco-Hotel in New Guinea, “where the neighbors are the people who ate Michael Rockefeller.”
We recently came across evidence that Nora Akerberg, senior project manager in HOK St. Louis’ Interiors group, also worked on the Sheraton Timika project:
Here’s Nora’s description of the photo: “It was 1993 and we were in the town of Agats, which is located in the Irian Jaya province of Indonesia on the island of New Guinea. My five friends were enjoying a lazy afternoon chewing their betel nut. We had just come up the river after sourcing some small villages for local artifacts for the Timika hotel project.”
Previous edition of ITDS: David Chassin – St. Louis
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this picture of nora is just so beautiful! I love that this company would source artifacts in small villages!