Live From Greenbuild: Bill Valentine
HOK’s chairman and most vocal sustainable design advocate is blogging Greenbuild 2009 for Contract magazine. In his first post for Contract, Bill reflects on his journey to Phoenix, writes about seeing...
View ArticleZero Emissions Building Design: Walls
The team designing a zero emissions office building met virtually on September 29 to brainstorm about the exterior walls. HOK participants included Bill Valentine and Dave Troup in San Francisco, Mary...
View ArticleThe [Sustainable] Road Less Traveled
HOK Chairman Bill Valentine talks about "The Pleasures and Treasures of Less" Robert Frost’s classic poem about the choices that we make in life says it all: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took...
View ArticleThe World’s First High-Performance BOBBLEHEAD
Nothing symbolizes professional success quite like the creation of a bobblehead likeness. Obama’s got one. The Beatles have a set. LeBron even inspired one as a Cavalier and another to chart his...
View ArticleOn the Sustainable Road | [bobbleHead]line: Los Angeles
Bill Valentine, only smaller. Not all of you have been to Los Angeles office, and that’s a shame. We’re awfully friendly and remarkably good-looking in person. We do neat things here, like Parking Lot...
View ArticleSafe Travels, “Bill”
The bobblehead created for Bill Valentine is an award that will travel worldwide to recognize offices and teams for advancing the HOK Sustainable Roadmap. The Roadmap is taking sustainability to the...
View ArticleThe Bobblehead Cometh…
London have been the delighted hosts of the much-celebrated Bobblehead Bill (BB) over the past month. BB, as our guest has been affectionately known to us over the past few weeks, has been engaging,...
View ArticleWhat’s NEXT for Green? Join HOK at Greenbuild 2011
Greenbuild 2011, the world’s largest green building conference, is less than a month away: October 4-7 in Toronto. Since Greenbuild began in 2002, attendance has grown from 4,000 to the nearly 30,000...
View ArticleHOK’s Bill Valentine on What’s Next for Sustainable Design
As we look forward to 2012, we recently came across a video from Greenbuild 2011 in Toronto focused on what’s next for sustainable design. In this Greenbuild interview, HOK Chairman Bill Valentine...
View ArticleHOK Chairman and Sustainability Pioneer Bill Valentine Retires after 50 Years
Bill Valentine has retired after half a century with HOK. Bill joined HOK in 1962, straight from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and, thankfully, never left. In 1970, at the request of HOK...
View ArticleHOK Chairman Emeritus Bill Valentine Featured in Interiors & Sources Interview
As part of its 30th anniversary, the magazine invited some of the notable designers that it has profiled through the years to reflect on their personal journeys since then and talk about how they feel...
View ArticleLive From Greenbuild: Bill Valentine
HOK’s chairman and most vocal sustainable design advocate is blogging Greenbuild 2009 for Contract magazine. In his first post for Contract, Bill reflects on his journey to Phoenix, writes about seeing...
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