As sports fans in the New York City area have watched new stadiums and arenas pop up all over the country, they may not have known that many of the new baseball, football, and basketball venues – including major and minor league, as well as collegiate – were designed by Kansas City’s HOK Sport + Venue + Event.
The architecture firm, which spun off in 1983 as a stand-alone affiliate of its parent firm, St. Louis-based Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, has dominated sports venue design in recent years. Now, as the primary architects for the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, Citi Field in Queens, and the Prudential Center in Newark, the firm is ready to leave its mark on New York.