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11/09/2026

Seat utilization across our offices averaged 73% — even before the pandemic. Planning by headcount meant we were overbuilding by as much as 37%. 📐

Our new report, “From Head Count to Human Experience,” shows how we rebuilt our real estate decisions around how our people actually work, and what it delivered across four years and 14 portfolio shifts:

➡️$6 million in annual real estate savings
➡️ At least $70 million in projected savings over 10 years
➡️ In Atlanta, headcount grew 50% while the footprint shrank by a third
➡️ In New York, 91% of employees feel very or extremely connected to their teams

Download our report for the four-step process and four takeaways any organization can use: https://hks.onl/4iGvHgB

11/06/2026

To recruit tomorrow’s top cyber talent, the FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation needed a workplace worth showing up to.

The FBI’s Innovation Center & Central Utility Plant 2 in Huntsville, Alabama, recently received a 2026 DBIA National Award of Merit in the Office Buildings category. The design pairs a welcoming glass-and-metal academic and workplace building with a training facility wrapped in distinctive metal fins. Two distinct pieces, one cohesive campus centerpiece.

HKS designed the LEED Gold project with design-build partner Clark Construction Group.

Congratulations to the team and our partners!

📸 by Corey Gaffer

11/05/2026

November is National Caregivers Month. More than 50 million Americans care for an adult 50 or older, often while juggling work, commutes, and the rest of daily life.

Our new report, Designing for Human Potential, surveyed 5,093 adults in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, and London across seven everyday settings. The quality of everyday spaces predicts a person’s stress about as strongly as their age or physical health. Caregivers of older adults rate campuses and offices as more restorative than anyone else does — the two places where caregiving pauses.

Good design gives everyone a chance to recover, especially those caring for someone else.

Read Designing for Human Potential: https://hks.onl/4iqlfJO

11/04/2026

On Nov. 1, the crowd counted down: Five. Four. Three. Two. One.

The Forest Theater marquee is lit again in South Dallas, for the first time in more than 50 years.

The 1949 landmark reopened as a place where young people learn, create, and gather. The restored 1,000-seat theater anchors a new campus, with a Creative Laboratory for youth arts education and media training.

HKS designed the restoration and expansion with Forest Forward and the neighborhood it serves.

10/30/2026

Before joining Rosewood, an ESBA inclusion hub, students whose anxiety presented challenges to attending school, some had spent long stretches unable to leave their homes. Today they attend school regularly, engage in learning, and are rebuilding connections with peers and staff.

Set within Prince William School in Oundle, Rosewood serves up to 48 students aged 11–16 experiencing Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA). Across England, up to an estimated 5% of pupils miss out on education because of EBSA. Schools have design standards for mainstream and SEND classrooms, but any for EBSA are in their infancy.

The design treats the building as a transitional threshold between home and school:
➡️ A separate entrance and identity, so students can enter at their own comfort.
➡️ A domestic “living room” at the heart of the facility, with classrooms opening directly off it.
➡️ A movement room for physical and emotional self-regulation.
➡️ Classrooms designed to SEND space standards, the students have autonomy, and can bridge the gap between home and school with choice.
➡️ Acoustics designed to aid the transition, with classrooms designed to mainstream standards, but smaller spaces provide the enhanced acoustic of SEND requirements, so a future move into mainstream classrooms feels familiar, but there are also calm spaces to retreat.

HKS repurposed an existing block on the campus for East Midlands Academy Trust.

10/27/2026

HKS is hiring!

Across Health, Sports, Mission Critical and more, we're looking to fill vital roles as we improve people's lives through design.

📌 Sr. Construction Administrator
📌 Construction Administrator
📌 Design Professional I
📌 Sr. Interior Designer
📌 Sr. Project Manager
📌 Project Manager
📌 Job Captain
📌 Designer
📌 and more!

Apply today ➡️ https://hks.onl/3UlhnRa

10/23/2026

The newest building at Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay was designed with the whole campus in mind.

The 22-story Bay Tower adds 227 independent living units in Virginia Beach, each with a balcony facing the beach and the bay. Its rooftop deck, open to residents across the campus, has a full-size pickleball court, a pool, fire pits, and outdoor dining. Add six dining venues, hydroponic growing spaces that bring fresh greens to the tower’s kitchen, and a new Pavilion over the sand, and a community that has served residents since 1980 gains a new center of gravity.

Read more: https://hks.onl/4BoM0pr

HKS provided architecture and interior architecture for the tower.

10/21/2026

Some of us sketched the first StationSoccer field. Some of us are just getting started. All of us showed up for Holmes. ⚽

This week, H.E. Holmes StationSoccer opened in Atlanta, the newest field in the League of Stations, the world’s first transit soccer league. Underused land at MARTA stations becomes free youth soccer fields that kids can reach by train from across the city.

The league now reaches 5,000 kids. HKS developed the multi-site master plan through Citizen HKS, our pro bono practice, with Soccer in the Streets, MARTA, the City of Atlanta Government Department of City Planning, and Atlanta United Foundation.

Here’s to the next station.

Read more about this project here: https://hks.onl/4yzTGCM

Drone photo by Drew Xzavier

10/20/2026

In semi-arid Senegal, every rainstorm counts, so we designed a school that celebrates them.

Net Positive Senegal received a Jury Citation in the Unbuilt category at the AIA Dallas Design Awards.

Classrooms circle a storytelling theater in the round, a layout drawn from traditional Senegalese villages. When the rain comes, a thin-shell roof channels the water into its center, where students can watch it gather.

Wind chimneys modeled on termite mounds draw heat out of each room, keeping interiors about 15°C cooler than the air outside. Walls of compressed earth brick, made from local soil and agricultural waste, keep embodied carbon low.

Thank you to AIA Dallas and this year’s jury for recognizing this project.

10/19/2026

Three HKS projects are being recognized in this year’s Architizer Vision Awards:

Project Rise — Finalist, Vision for Vertical Living
A speculative 2,000-meter vertical city that reinterprets courtyards, souks, and narrow passages for life in the sky.

Vilnius Congress Centre — Finalist, Vision for Localism
Conceived as a Lithuanian glacial boulder: a single civic form shaped by the Neris River and carved open for public life.

Al Wahda — Special Mention, Vision for Sustainability
A net-positive campus inspired by the desert’s dunes and winds, designed to send surplus energy and resources to the community around it.

Congratulations to our teams, and to every firm on this year’s shortlist.

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350 N Saint Paul Street, Ste 100
Dallas, TX
75201

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Tuesday	8:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	8:30am - 5:30pm

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