The list highlights 100 firms making an extraordinary impact around the world. TIME selected HOK in the “Leaders” category for the design of LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B.
To create the list, TIME evaluated companies based on key factors including relevance, impact, innovation, leadership, ambition and success.
Excerpted from TIME:
Redesigning a terminal at one of the busiest U.S. airports, all while millions of passengers come and go, is no easy feat. But that’s what architecture firm HOK managed to do at New York City’s LaGuardia Terminal B, which fully reopened this year. The revamped space has a more traveler-friendly vibe all around, an eye-catching LED water fountain, and sky bridges between “islands.”
“The metaphor is that New York is a city of islands and bridges,” says HOK President Carl Galioto of the new terminal, which recently won a UNESCO architecture and design award, making it the gold standard for airport design moving forward.
Project Team
The project was overseen by LaGuardia Gateway Partners, a consortium composed of Vantage Airport Group, Skanska, Meridiam, and JLC Infrastructure for development and equity investment. Vantage Airport Group led the redevelopment program and management of Terminal B, with Skanska Walsh as the design-build joint venture and HOK and WSP for design.