Universities around the nation are making huge strides in the design of their student facilities. College Planning & Management Magazine’s front page features the University of Central Florida’s Technology Commons I & II that breaks the mold of typical student technology labs. A design build effort by HKS and Charles Perry Partners, Inc., this multi-functional collaborative space is filled with some pretty cool technology, and has a design that invigorates the student mind. For more information, check out page 54 of this article.
Archive for February, 2012
College Planning & Management Magazine frontpage features HKS Interiors project
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012Cowboys Stadium among ’50 Sports Venues to Visit Before You Die’
Monday, February 20th, 2012
Have you been wanting to beef up your bucket list? Here’s a great start…
Check out HKS’s Cowboys Stadium among ’50 Sports Venues to Visit Before You Die’.
click here to see the full article.
Don’t Be Pulled Left or Right; Keep Moving Forward
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
As politicians pull us left and right, the American businessperson is simply trying to stimulate and grow his or her business. The real estate, design, and construction industry continues to go through a perfect storm. Banks are not yet lending large amounts for real estate transactions, the government has decreased capital improvements and the housing market has yet to rally. However, there are points of light occurring with public-private-partnerships, private investments, and different funds that are building projects. Read more on D Magazine’s RealPoints blog:
Are you learning as fast as the world is changing?
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012Tom Kelly, general manager of IDEO, the world-renowned design firm, likes to quote French novelist Marcel Proust, who famously said, “The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.”
See the link below for a very interesting article on how to learn faster, and think differently.
http://blogs.hbr.org/taylor/2012/01/are_you_learning_as_fast_as_th.html
How cool is this space? CBRE
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
An e-blast was recently sent to all of Shaw Contract’s email subscribers. Kudos to the HKS team who worked on this beautiful project. It is such a compliment to be featured in an e-blast for one of the industry’s most prominent flooring companies. Check out the link below for more photos.
http://www.shawcontractgroup.com/Html/MarketSegmentsWorkplace
American made products
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
It has become a weekly topic on ABC World News… Made in America. Each segment, newscasters discuss how buying products made in America will help create American jobs. A local builder in Montana is building homes made entirely of American made products. He is convinced that if every builder bought just 5% more American materials it would create 220,000 jobs. If residential builders can have that great of an impact on our ecomony, just image the impact if architects and designers specified more American made products on commercial projects.
Below is a link to the ABC News article, including a list of American companies and the building products they make.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/10/how-to-build-a-made-in-america-home/