Not to be outdone by Chicago, HOK WDC hosted a book-launch party for our own Leigh Stringer and her fabulous book The Green Workplace on Tuesday, October 6.

The event was held on the green roof of 700 Sixth Street, one of DC’s first LEED C&S Platinum buildings (designed by HOK, of course).  The building’s developer, Akridge, gracefully allowed HOK to use the roof deck (and downstairs lobby when the fall wind and a few sprinkles picked up), as well as providing tours of the space on the fourth floor (currently tracking LEED CI Gold!).  Food was …

Remember back in elementary school when you had field day?  For me, that was always one of the best days of the year (I was a 3-legged race champ)!  This year, HOK participated in field day for grown ups, the JDRF Real Estate Games.

This event is an annual fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.  This year’s event raised over $400K for the cause…and had over 2,000 participants.

The 2009 games were HOK’s first, and we had 10 participants in three events.

• Tennis singles (women’s) – Jelena Lustica
• Tennis doubles (men’s) – Todd Pedersen and Edmund Velasco
• 5K – Vincent Ng, Jennifer King, Claire Whitehill, Colleen Knapp, Daphne Kiplinger, Amy Fabry, and

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You know you’ve been anxiously awaiting our second installment of 5 Questions for HOKers.  Today’s feature is Esther Simon, the one and only prickly pear of HOK. 

Q: Tell us about your background.

A: I came to the United States from Israel about 30 years ago.  I have a great desire to be part of a larger community – I think this desire was formed in Israel, where there was a great sense of community due in part

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Today, my very good friend and colleague Mide Akinsade, sent me an e-mail article from the Washington Business Journal featuring Bill Hellmuth with an image of a project we are working on (right). Exciting!! So as I thought about how to blog about it, I found Bill on the cover of the ”OnSite Greater Washington’s Real Estate Quarterly”, a supplement to the Washington Business Journal.

The article by Deborah K. Dietsch is titled “On top of the world”, and she writes: “As president and design chief of HOK, Bill Hellmuth is transforming the world’s architecture one building at a time. His approach? Sustainability, modernism – and …