Priory Chapel at Saint Louis Abbey - July 2013

KAUST laboratory buildings and town mosque

HOK, formerly Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum and legally HOK Group, Inc., is an American design,

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, and

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firm, founded in 1955. As of 2018, HOK is the largest U.S.-based architecture-engineering firm and the fourth-largest interior design firm. The firm maintains more than 1,600 professional staff across a network of 24 offices, and is active in all major architectural specialties.

History

Founding

HOK was established in

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, in 1955. The firm's name is derived from the surnames of its three founding partners: George F. Hellmuth,

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and George Kassabaum, all graduates of the School of Architecture at

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. The design firm started with 26 employees and its three founders. The practice's first building designs were schools in St. Louis suburbs, and St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florissant was the first private/parochial school designed by the firm. Another prominent school they designed was the Saint Louis Priory School.

Early years

By the mid-1960s, the firm was winning commissions across the United States and began to open additional offices, starting with San Francisco in 1966 for the design of a library at Stanford University and Dallas in 1968 for the master planning and design of

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. Also in 1968, HOK launched its interior design practice. HOK also expanded into

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, after winning the commission to design the

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. In 1973, HOK established a presence in New York by acquiring Kahn & Jacobs, designers of many New York City skyscrapers. By the 1970s, the firm was operating internationally and in 1975 the firm was named as architect of the $3.5 billion

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, at the time the single largest building project in the world. In 1979, George Kassabaum was elected into the

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as an Associate Academician. In 1983, HOK formed HOK Sport Venue Event, a subsidiary devoted entirely to designing sport stadiums, arenas, and convention centers, an architectural boom market at the time. In January 2009, the Board of HOK Group, Inc. and managers of HOK Sports Facilities, LLC transferred ownership of HOK Sport to leaders of that practice. The company became an independent firm, and rebranded itself as Populous.

Expansion and acquisitions

HOK's first office outside the US opened in Hong Kong in 1984, and the second in London in 1987, a practice that would be expanded in 1995 by merging with the British architectural practice Cecil Denny Highton. As of April 2021, HOK operates offices in seven different countries including the US, China, India, and Canada, where it established its first offices in 1997 with the acquisition of Urbana Architects. The firm expanded into China in 2013, when it acquired the New York and

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offices of hospitality design firm BBG-BBGM, creating one of the world's largest interior design firms, although BBG-BBGM's office in Washington, D.C. continues to operate as BBGM. By 2007, international work represented more than 40% of HOK's annual revenue. Other domestic acquisitions include Caudill Rowlett Scott based in Houston, Texas, in November 1994, adding offices in Houston and Atlanta, and

360 Architecture 360 Architecture was an American architectural practice acquired by HOK in 2015. The firm provided services for a range of project types including corporate headquarters and commercial office buildings, sports arenas, stadiums and ballparks, mun ...

in January 2015, a 200-person, Kansas City-based firm specializing in the design of stadiums, ballparks, arenas, recreation and wellness centers, and mixed-use entertainment districts. The acquisition enabled HOK to launch a new global Sports, Recreation, and Entertainment design practice after the breakaway of Populous, and to open new offices in Kansas City and Columbus, Ohio. This return to the firm's tradition of stadium architecture was buoyed on May 15, 2015, when the firm announced a multi-year partnership with the

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(USL) in the US to lead a stadium development, design and standards initiative to help house all USL clubs in soccer-specific stadiums across North America by the end of the decade.

Leadership

In 2004, George Hellmuth's nephew, Bill Hellmuth, was named president of the firm. In 2012, HOK Chairman

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retired after 50 years with the firm and was replaced by HOK

Chief Executive Officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especial ...

Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA. In January 2016, HOK announced that Bill Hellmuth would succeed Patrick MacLeamy as CEO, effective April 19, 2016, and he would later also assume the role of chairman when it was announced that Carl Galioto had been appointed president in April 2017.

Innovation and sustainable design

In 1983, HOK introduced HOK Draw, computer-aided drafting software products that specialized in conceptual architectural design. In the early 2000s, HOK began using Building Information Modeling (BIM) to streamline the design and construction process. In 2012, Building Design + Construction ranked HOK the No. 1 BIM Architecture Firm. In 2013, ''DesignIntelligence'' magazine, based in part on the firm's leadership in

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and BIM, ranked HOK the No. 1 Design Firm for Technology Expertise. HOK is generally regarded as one of the leading architectural companies in the area of sustainable design. Professionals in the firm authored one of the industry's most respected resources on the topic, "The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design," originally published in 2000 by

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. A second edition of the book was published in 2005. In September 2008, to better integrate nature's innovations into the design of buildings, communities and cities worldwide, HOK announced an alliance with the Biomimicry Group, co-founded by Janine Benyus. In 2010, HOK and energy and daylighting consultant The Weidt Group completed design of Net Zero Court, a 170,735-square-foot, market-rate, zero-emissions class A commercial office building in St. Louis. In 2013, HOK and Biomimicry 3.8 released the Genius of Biome report, a textbook for how to apply biomimicry design principles, and a year later in 2014, ORO Editions published “HOK Tall Buildings,” a 300-page book exploring the design of the contemporary high-rise. In 2015, for the sixth consecutive year, the ''DesignIntelligence'' journal ranked HOK as a leader in sustainable and high-performance design. HOK currently has more than 750 LEED,

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and WELL credentialed professionals and more than 300 green certified projects under various rating systems worldwide.

Global offices

United States: Atlanta; Chicago; Columbus, OH; Dallas; Houston; Kansas City; Los Angeles; New York; Philadelphia; St. Louis; San Francisco; Seattle; Summit, NJ; Tampa, FL; Washington, D.C. Canada: Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto Asia Pacific: Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai Europe: London. Also leads European Architects Network (EAN) - affiliated firms in Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid, Milan, Paris and Rome India: Mumbai Middle East: Dubai

Selected projects

* 1962: The Priory Chapel,

, Missouri, United States * 1970: Houston Galleria, Houston, Texas, United States * 1970:

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, United States * 1975:

, Saudi Arabia * 1976: National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., United States * 1979: Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford University,

Stanford, California Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is the home of Stanford University. The population was 21,150 at the 2020 census. Stanford is an unincorporated area of ...

, United States * 1981:

Moscone Center The George R. Moscone Convention Center (pronounced ), popularly known as the Moscone Center, is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California. The complex consists of three main halls spread out across three block ...

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, United States * 1981: Metropolitan Square, St. Louis, Missouri, United States – Current location of HOK St. Louis office * 1982:

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, San Francisco, California, United States * 1983:

King Khaled International Airport King Khalid International Airport ( ar, مطار الملك خالد الدولي ', ) is located north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, designed by the architectural firm HOK, and Arabian Bechtel Company Limited served as the construction manager o ...

, Saudi Arabia * 1985: St. Louis Union Station Renovation and Redevelopment, St. Louis, Missouri, United States * 1986: BP Building Cleveland, Ohio, United States * 1986: Kellogg Company Headquarters Battle Creek, Michigan, United States * 1986: Riverchase Galleria

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, United States * 1991: 801 Grand,

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, United States (tallest building in Iowa) * 1992: Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research (CEPSR),

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, New York City, United States * 1993:

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R&D Campus,

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, United States * 1994:

Independence Temple The Temple in Independence, Missouri, is a house of worship and education "dedicated to the pursuit of peace". It dominates the skyline of Independence and has become the focal point of the headquarters of the Community of Christ (formerly the Re ...

Independence, Missouri Independence is the fifth-largest city in Missouri and the county seat of Jackson County. Independence is a satellite city of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the largest suburb on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metropolitan area. In 2020, ...

, United States * 1995: Tokyo Telecom Center, Tokyo, Japan (co-designers) * 1996: Tuntex Sky Tower, Kaohsiung, Taiwan * 1996–1997: Nortel Brampton Centre HQ,

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, Canada * 1997: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Restoration, London, England * 1997: George Bush Presidential Library,

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, United States (on the campus of

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...

) * 1999:

Northwestern Memorial Hospital Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) is a nationally ranked academic medical center located on Northwestern University’s Chicago campus in Streeterville, Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship campus for Northwestern Medicine and the primary ...

Facility Replacement and Redevelopment,

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, United States (co-designers) * 1999: Edificio Malecon Office Tower,

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, Argentina * 1999: Boeing Leadership Center,

, Missouri, United States * 1999:

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(home of NBA

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, United States * 2000: Passenger Terminal Amsterdam,

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, The Netherlands * 2000:

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(home of NHL

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), Columbus, Ohio, United States * 2001:

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Research Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States (1.2 million-sq.-ft. campus) * 2002: Darwin Centre at the

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, Passenger Terminal Cork, Cork Airport, Ireland * 2002: Alfred A. Arraj U.S. Courthouse,

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, Colorado, United States * 2003:

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of the National Air and Space Museum,

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, United States * 2004:

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Master Plan and Patient Pavilion, New York City, United States * 2005:

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Executive Briefing Center Interior Design, San Jose, California, United States * 2005: Terminal A at

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, Boston, Massachusetts, United States (world's first LEED certified air terminal building) * 2005:

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(home of

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), Stockton, California, United States * 2006: Lavasa Hill Station Master Plan and Design Guidelines, Moss Valley,

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, India * 2006: Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (The Wild Center), Tupper Lake, New York, United States * 2006: SJ Berwin European Headquarters Interior Design, London, England, (Business Week/Architectural Record Award winner) * 2007:

Dubai Marina Dubai Marina ( ar, مرسى دبي), aka Marsa Dubai, is a district in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is an artificial canal city, built along a stretch of Persian Gulf shoreline. As of 2018, it has a population of 55,052. When the entire develo ...

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, United Arab Emirates * 2007: Hyatt on

the Bund The Bund or Waitan (, Shanghainese romanization: ''Nga3thae1'', , ) is a waterfront area and a protected historical district in central Shanghai. The area centers on a section of Zhongshan Road (East Zhongshan Road No.1) within the former Shan ...

, Shanghai, China * 2007:

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, United States * 2008:

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, United States * 2008: Midfield Terminal at the

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, United States (master designer) * 2008:

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, United States * 2009: Doha City Centre,

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, Qatar, (design of five hotel towers for largest retail development in the Middle East) * 2009: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),

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, Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia's first LEED certified project and the world's largest LEED Platinum project) * 2009:

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, head office of

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, England * 2009: Bakrie Tower,

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, Indonesia * 2009:

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(home of Triple-A MiLB

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), Columbus, Ohio, United States * 2010: Indira Gandhi International Airport – Terminal 3,

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, India (LEED Gold certification) * 2010: New Building 20 at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, (LEED Platinum certification) * 2010:

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(home of NFL

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and NFL

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, United States * 2011:

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* 2011: Brigade Gateway Enclave,

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* 2011:

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, Vietnam (tallest building in Vietnam) * 2012: Canon USA Headquarters,

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* 2012: Baku

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, Azerbaijan * 2012:

Mural Pavilion, New York City * 2013:

San Francisco Mint The San Francisco Mint is a branch of the United States Mint. Opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of the California Gold Rush, in twenty years its operations exceeded the capacity of the first building. It moved into a new one in 1874, now kno ...

Adaptive Reuse, San Francisco, California * 2013:

BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...

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