Posts Tagged ‘HOK’

Killbear Park Interpretive Centre

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Bold form reflects site’s rugged terrain and environmental stewardship

View of the west elevation shows how the building perches on the rock ledge. An overhang at the south-west corner [right in photo] and interior sun shades mitigate solar heat gain

by Gordon Stratford

Shifting, sloping and canting, the Killbear Provincial Park Visitor Centre pays homage to its site, a windswept outcropping of the Canadian Shield, its granite bedrock exposed by the glaciers at the end of the last ice age. (more…)

Tags: Blackwell Bowick Partnership Ltd., Canadian Shield, Cast-in-place concrete, celebrates nature, CGC gypsum, closed loop, energy-efficient, environmental footprint, environmental stewardship, exposed architectural concrete-block, filter storm runoff, food-grade glycol, Forbo, Gordon Stratford, granite bedrock, Great Lakes Heritage Coast, greenhouse gas emissions, high-performance window, HOK, indigenous plant species, innovative sustainable design strategies, Killbear Provincial Park, Lightolier, Low-maintenance, Low-maintenance plant, M.J. Dixon Construction, Marmoleum linoleum, Mulvey + Banani, natural features, natural light, Precambrian rock, recycled building materials, Schollen & Company, sealed concrete flooring, Sloan, Smith and Andersen Consulting Engineering, solar heat gain, stormwater management, Toronto, water source heat pumps, Zurn
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HOK Office

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

LEED Gold rating begins with space efficiency

The office shows a sense of visual and physical economy that is emerging as the hallmarks of sustainable interior design.

by Jim Taggart

It is reassuring to those who live in fear of a global architectural monoculture that one of the world’s largest firms chooses to build its design philosophy around literary quotations that celebrate the individual and the idiosyncratic. (more…)

Tags: agrifibre millwork, biomass, daylight sensors, Green Label standard, harvesting of natura, HOK, Hunter Douglas, IDAC Management, Interface, Jim Taggart, Knoll, Metalumen; Litemor, Mulvey and Banani, Niagara Protective Coating, Rae Brothers, redcliff Realty Management Inc., Seawood Solutions, Teknion, TMP Consulting Engineers, wilsonart millwork
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