HOK, Leader of the 'Home Team,' Selected to Design Kansas City Arena 10/1/2004
Kansas City, Mo., yesterday selected the most prolific sports architect in the country, HOK Sport+Venue+Event, as the lead architect for the city's new $250-million arena. The HOK unit is based in Kansas City and is teamed with Ellerbe Becket, another designer of sports facilities, and 360 Architects. The winning team bested Frank Gehry, the Los Angeles-based architect, whose firm was working with Crawford Architects, a firm with a Kansas City office.
HOK unveiled a conceptual design for the arena but Gehry's team said it didn't want to seem to be designing without input from its prospective clients.