1955年诞生于美国圣路易斯市，HOK于2025年迎来了70周年的庆典，作为一家全球性的建筑、设计与工程公司，HOK在全球拥有26个办公室，数以万计的落成项目遍布世界各国。 

70年前，George Hellmuth、Gyo Obata和George Kassabaum共同创立了HOK。他们背景各异，各有所长，却秉承着同一个坚定的信念——建立一个能汇聚各种人才的设计公司，通过设计丰富人们的生活。

美国圣路易斯兰伯特国际机场 St. Louis Lambert International Airport

“Hellmuth、Kassabaum和我创立HOK的初衷就是要做出好设计，”Obata先生在2013年的访谈中坦言，“我们始终认为，要真正做好设计，就必须仔细倾听客户的声音，理解每个项目的核心。”

美国圣路易斯修道院礼拜堂 Priory Chapel at Saint Louis Abbey

在HOK创立初期，项目主要集中在圣路易斯市的一些地标性建筑项目，如兰伯特—圣路易斯国际机场的航站楼设计（这是Obata和Hellmuth在之前的事务所——Hellmuth Yamasaki & Leinweber就已经开始的工作）、圣路易斯修道院的教堂和南伊利诺伊大学爱德华兹维尔分校的设计等。

HOK的创始人们深知，“多元化”对公司赢得新项目和持续发展的重要性。于是又拓展了新的市场类别，增加了企业设计、室内设计、商业设计和市政建筑设计；并于1966年在旧金山开设了第二个办公室。随后，在1973年，HOK又在纽约、达拉斯和华盛顿特区开设了新的办公室。

上：美国国家航空航天博物馆 | 下：美国休斯顿The Galleria购物中心

Top: National Air and Space Museum | Bottom: The Galleria in Houston

在此阶段，HOK完成了一系列重要的项目，包括位于加利福尼亚州洛斯加托斯的IBM高级系统开发实验室；休斯顿的Galleria购物中心（世界上首个封闭式的购物中心之一）；达拉斯沃思堡国际机场；华盛顿特区的美国国家航空航天博物馆；以及位于纽约普莱西德湖的奥林匹克体育馆——这是HOK的第一个体育类项目。

上：施乐帕洛阿托研究中心 | 下：沙特阿拉伯利雅得哈立德国王国际机场

Top: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center | Bottom: King Khalid International Airport

同一时期，另一个里程碑式的项目是施乐帕洛阿托研究中心（Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center），这里汇聚了计算机天才的精英团队，最终开发出图形用户界面、激光打印和首款商用鼠标等革命性产品。

到了20世纪80年代，HOK开始赢得国际项目，如沙特利雅得的哈立德国王国际机场项目；并在香港和伦敦开设了新办公室。90年代至21世纪初，HOK进一步拓展国际市场，在加拿大、阿联酋和中国等地新设了办公室。

HOK可持续设计指南 The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design

如今，HOK拥有26个办公室，涵盖了11个独特的市场类型和10个不同的专业领域，除了核心的建筑设计、室内设计和工程专业外，还包括可持续设计、规划、体验设计和景观设计等。HOK对可持续发展的承诺，早在2000年发布的权威著作《HOK可持续设计指南》中得到了充分体现。

上：三亚亚特兰蒂斯 | 下：北京三里屯通盈中心洲际酒店

Top: Atlantis Sanya | Bottom: InterContinental Beijing Sanlitun at Topwin Center

HOK的规模和专业领域虽经历了大幅扩展，但其创立的初衷却始终未变。“HOK的非凡之处不仅在于我们自1955年以来的成长，更在于我们至今仍遵循着最初创立时的原则，”HOK联席首席执行官Susan Klumpp Williams表示：“我们的长久发展与成功源于我们的核心优势：人才的多元化、市场的多样性和地理位置的多样化。我们不断设计出超越客户预期、提升生活品质的空间。引用George Kassabaum的话来说，‘这家公司的基石是才华横溢、专注敬业的优秀人才们。’”

上：LG 科研园 | 下：新加坡黄廷芳综合医院

Top: LG Science Park | Bottom: Ng Teng Fong General Hospital

“70年的历程留下了非凡的传承，”HOK联席首席执行官Eli Hoisington补充道，“如今，我们的使命是确保下一个70年同样精彩。对此我满怀信心，原因有两个：一是HOK早期便奠定了坚实的基础，二是我们现在拥有众多出类拔萃的人才，他们将引领我们走向未来。”

上：多哈哈马德国际机场 | 下：美国亚特兰大梅赛德斯-奔驰体育场

Top: Hamad International Airport | Bottom: Mercedes-Benz Stadium

2025年全年，HOK全球将通过举办特别庆典活动和全球范围内的服务项目来庆祝成立70周年。HOK一直致力于服务社区，这一传统在2010年随着“HOK Impact”（“HOK影响力”社会责任计划）的确立而正式形成。根据70周年庆“26/70”计划，HOK的全球26个办公室都将投入至少70小时的志愿服务时间，用于支持当地的社区项目或社区组织。

HOK CELEBRATES 70TH ANNIVERSARY

Founded in St. Louis in 1955, HOK marks its 70th anniversary in 2025 as a global architecture, design and engineering firm with 26 offices and tens of thousands of built projects around the world.

HOK三位创始人：Gyo Obata, George Hellmuth与George Kassabaum HOK's founders: Gyo Obata, George Hellmuth and George Kassabaum

Seventy years ago, George Hellmuth, Gyo Obata and George Kassabaum joined forces to create HOK. Though they came from different backgrounds and brought distinct skills, they shared a powerful vision. They wanted to build a practice where diverse talents could come together to enrich people's lives through design.

"The whole reason HOK was started with Hellmuth, Kassabaum and myself was to do good design," said Obata in a 2013 interview. "We believed in listening carefully to the client to understand the essence of the project and then make it a great design."

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The firm's early work focused mainly on St. Louis with landmark projects such as completing the terminal design for St. Louis Lambert International Airport (work Obata and Hellmuth had begun at their previous firm, Hellmuth Yamasaki & Leinweber) and designing the Priory Chapel at Saint Louis Abbey and Southern Illinois University's new Edwardsville campus.

HOK's cofounders recognized the importance of diversifying the firm to win new work and continue to grow. They added new market types and disciplines—corporate, interior design, retail, civic—and in 1966 opened a second office in San Francisco. New HOK offices opened in 1973 in New York, Dallas and Washington, D.C.

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Signature projects during this time included IBM's Advanced Systems Development Laboratories in Los Gatos, California; The Galleria in Houston (one of the world's first enclosed shopping malls); Dallas Fort Worth International Airport; the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.; and the Olympic Fieldhouse in Lake Placid, New York—the firm's first sports project.

The period saw another milestone with Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, home to the greatest gathering of computer talent ever assembled, where teams developed the graphical user interface, laser printing and the first commercial mouse.

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By the 1980s, HOK was winning international work, including King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and was opening new offices in Asia and London. The 1990s and early 2000s saw more international work, with offices opening in Canada, the United Arab Emirates and China. 

英国伦敦弗朗西斯-克里克研究所 Francis Crick Institute

Today HOK has 26 offices and boasts 11 unique market types and 10 different disciplines that include sustainable design, planning, experience design and landscape architecture in addition to core disciplines of architecture, interiors and engineering. The firm's commitment to sustainability was underscored by its influential 2000 publication, The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design.

While the scale and scope of HOK's work have evolved dramatically, its founding vision endures. "What's remarkable about HOK is not just how we've grown since 1955, but that the principles set in place then are still being followed," said HOK Co-CEO Susan Klumpp Williams, AIA." Our longevity and success is based on our core strengths, which are our diversity of people, our diversity of markets and our diversity of locations. We continue to design spaces that exceed clients' expectations and improve people's lives. To quote George Kassabaum, 'This firm is built on talented, dedicated people.'"

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"The legacy of 70 years is extraordinary," added Co-CEO Eli Hoisington, AIA. "Our job now is to ensure the next 70 years are just as good. I'm optimistic they will be for two reasons: The vision put in place early at HOK, and the incredible people here now who will carry us into the future."

HOK will celebrate its anniversary throughout 2025 with special events and a firmwide service program. Building on the firm's tradition of community engagement—formalized in 2010 with the creation of HOK Impact—the "26/70" initiative will see each of HOK's 26 studios volunteer a minimum of 70 hours toward a local community project or organization.