A lot of HOKers are involved in athletic endeavors of all sorts (cycling, tennis, real estate games, picnic games, etc)…but two of our very own just competed in one of the most extreme running competitions out there: a Ragnar Relay.

What is a Ragnar Relay?  Well, basically, it’s you and your 11 closest pals running 200 miles through the wilderness over a 24-hour period.

It’s really quite simple. Get a bunch of friends together (or we can help you find team members who’ll quickly become your friends) and start running. Okay, there’s a little more to it. Your relay team will

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Future alien technolgies travel back in time to bring us… Gaudi Stool.

It’s been a while but this was such a shocking discovery for me that it has forced me back into active blogging. Thanks, inspiration – I’ve missed you!

Taken from a great review blog of this piece of furniture…

A stool inspired by the wonderfully structurally insane churches of Gaudi and created by one wonderfully insane designer, Bram Greenen.

Future… have I told you lately that I love you? … well I SO do. Let’s hang out more!

Don Crichton, interiors practise leader in HOK’s Toronto studio, talks about the design for Warner Music Canada’s headquarters.

Warner Music Canada artist Alanis Morissette

Previous edition of ITDS: Mark Vogl

Certain HOK-ers (ahem, John Gilmore ) have been bragging about HOK’s very cool new collaboration technology: the Advanced Collaboration Room, which combines Cisco Telepresence Technology and Polyvision Thunder Express.  Well, John, you are no longer the only cool kid in town!  The WDC office became the fourth HOK office to open it’s ACR for business.  St. Louis, San Francisco, and Toronto already had them…next on the list are Houston, Los Angeles, and London.

After a few solid weeks of construction, the ACR was ready for …

I could listen to Pam talk all day (and I think I did when editing her interview!). Here she describes how her interior design teams marry an organization’s culture with its needs to create an experience.

Previous edition.

For those of you that didn’t read all the way through this week’s installment of HOK Today from Corporate Communications (I know you all read it thoroughly), two of our own Life at HOK folks, Natalie Banaszak and Tom Polucci (one of our fearless leaders) were recently featured in a segment of Interior Design TV discussing the Mannington Create Collection. When you get a chance, go check it out.