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27 April 2010 | Posted inBlog News & Updates, Featured

5 Questions with Yann Weymouth

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Today I have the honor to bring to you some lesser known facts about one of HOK’s most world renowned architects. A senior vice president in HOK’s Tampa office, Yann Weymouth is capable of supernova design – he worked with I.M. Pei on the famous Louvre glass pyramid in Paris, among other high-profile museum projects, including the entirely new, waterfront building for the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Chances are, you have experienced one of the places that he designed and now, once you read this interview, you will be one step closer in your six degrees of separation from one of the generation’s …

One Degree of Separation: The Talking Heads and HOK

Lately, on the drive to preschool, I’ve been subjecting the Coolest Girl in the World to the Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense on the car stereo. I still remember being blown away by Jonathan Demme’s concert film of the same name. She tells me to turn it up and I think, 25 years later, it sounds better than ever. But I still wonder: Why the big suit?

I recently learned that Talking Heads co-founder and bassist Tina Weymouth (watch her shine here) is the sister of Yann Weymouth, a design director in HOK in Florida who worked on …