The LEED Platinum DC Consolidated Forensic Laboratory, which brings various forensic science units and law enforcement agencies into one facility, earned special mention honors in Laboratory Design’s 2013 Laboratory of the Year awards.

Laboratory Design

Queen Elizabeth recently paid a visit to the HOK-designed BBC New Broadcasting House to tour the multimedia broadcast center and declare it officially open.

More than 400 top real estate leaders recently gathered in Shanghai for Urban Land Institute’s second annual Asia Pacific Summit.

HOK News

Located in the heart of London, the Francis Crick Institute will be a world-class, interdisciplinary medical research institute when it opens in 2015. Designed by lead architect HOK, with sub-consultant PLP, the facility was “topped out” on June 6 to mark the completion of its highest point.

HOK News

HOK is leading a 17-firm team providing planning and design services for the rehabilitation and restoration of Long Beach Airport’s historic 1941 terminal building. “You might want to re-book to a later flight just to enjoy the longer wait,” KCET writes of the airport’s waiting area, designed as a series of indoor/outdoor rooms.

KCET

Hospitals are shifting toward a new model of healthcare design, HOK Healthcare Director Paul Strohm said in a recent article discussing the benefits of patient-centered design.

Healthcare Finance News

HOK designers in New York, St. Louis and Atlanta are using virtual meetings with their University at Buffalo (UB) client team to improve the design process for UB’s new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

Life at HOK

HOK Social Responsibility Chair Sarah Dirsa has been named to Building Design + Construction’s 40 Under 40 list for 2013.

BD+C