“While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.”
- James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), Author
Kassabaum, Obata + Hellmuth campaign for their earlier selves at HOK’s 25th anniversary celebration in 1980.
Landscape Architect Bob Belden soaks up studio life in the 1960s.
Hong Kong employees burn the midnight oil to celebrate HOK’s silver anniversary in 2005.
For the past several months, HOK people – current and past – have spent considerable time reflecting on our firm’s 55-year …
Today is a big day at HOK. It’s the day we celebrate our offices to the north: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Toronto, as we celebrate Canada Day. If you’re new to the office or visiting today, you would have noticed the Canadian flag displayed outside of the various HOK offices, and the reason why everyone is wearing red and white — it is customary to wish anyone wearing red a Happy Canada Day. As we at HOK celebrate all of our offices, and the wide range of locales they may be in, I myself can’t wait for the American Independence Day. Especially because we have been granted the day off to …
The video says it all. In honour of Martin Luther King Day today, and to mark another historical event tomorrow…
CNN has teamed up with Ericsson to ‘blueprint the future’ of what the world will look like in 2020. As most of you know HOK worked with ‘The History Channel’ to compete in the ‘City of the Future’ project for Atlanta in the year 2108.
What CNN has put together are the most innovative designers and thinkers, imagining something that’s not too far away. Interestingly enough the lifestyles we have today drive alot of these thoughts and relevancy. To plan for 2108 there are huge generalizations about a top-down perfect societal idealism that will exist in 100 years, as opposed to the bottom-up, usability apporach …
