Posts Tagged ‘St. Louis Science Center’

All Aboard!

The HOK St Louis office has been quite busy lately. So busy, some may say, we’ve been just a Chuggin-Along.  Asked by one of our clients, Peabody Energy, to design a tree for inclusion in the Children’s Holiday Festival, we happily hopped on board (man, the puns just keep coming!)

The Children’s Holiday Festival is an annual event to benefit St Louis Children’s Hospital, one of the premier children’s hospitals in the United States.  Trees are elaborately decorated and then auctioned off to the highest bidder.  The winner gets to take home the tree and the hospital gets a bump in funding. 

Peabody Tree 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The theme for the tree this year …

…And the Nobel Prize for Physics Goes to…Gyo Obata???

GYO

The surprising selection of Barack Obama as recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize has catapulted the international awards program to the forefront of worldwide consciousness.

Capitalizing on the Nobel attention, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay posted a mini-poll on his website asking people to vote for prominent local citizens he “nominated” for Nobel prizes in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics, Medicine and Peace.

HOK Founding Partner Gyo Obata is one of five nominees in the Physics category for his design of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium. Completed in 1963, the thin-shell and hyperboloid structure is located on the St. …