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HKS Launches Green Architecture Design Group

HKS Inc., an architecture firm based in Dallas, has launched a three-person team to promote eco-friendly design with its staff and clients. Kirk Teske was named chief sustainability officer and will lead the team, the Dallas Morning News reports. The firm aims to design carbon-neutral buildings by 2030 and is aiming to offer energy modeling [...]

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HOK Sport Breaks Away from Parent Company

HOK Sport Venue Event, a major sports facility design firm based in Kansas City, will split from its parent, HOK Group Inc., following a company buyout by a management team. The deal, announced August 28, will be completed by early 2009 with HOK Sport acquiring a new brand name. The firm has been part of [...]

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REX Marks Its First Year

In May 2006, Joshua Prince-Ramus, then the partner-in-charge of Rem Koolhaas’s OMA office in New York, announced that he would leave the firm to begin his own practice. With business partner and fellow OMA alumnus Erez Ella he founded REX: an acronym, with some rhetorical license, for Ramus Ella Architects. The new firm would take [...]

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