HOK Sport + Venue + Event (HOK SVE) is the world’s largest sports architecture practice based in London, Kansas City and Brisbane, Australia. A global firm, with a diverse portfolio of 450 projects on six continents, it offers unprecedented expertise in sports, venue and event architecture.

This includes a range of European sports projects, such as the English National Stadium at Wembley, the Millennium Stadium at Cardiff Arms Park, Wales, The Commonwealth Stadium at Manchester, together with 25 European soccer and rugby clubs, and some of the UK’s best known racecourses. World-wide other projects include; 50 North American NFL and MLB stadia and ballparks as well as many major indoor arenas within the USA.

Through its three offices across the world HOK SVE offers a uniquely fertile environment for innovative design. Designers from diverse cultural backgrounds and sports facility experience interact and collaborate to create stadia, arenas, and entertainment venues that reflect a truly global vision.

The core business of HOK SVE is the design of sports, leisure and entertainment facilities. Our 35 years of research into structure, safety standards and technology, means we design state-of-the-art facilities with an inbuilt future proof ability so they are adaptable and flexible in a rapidly changing environment.

The firm employs more than 300 people world-wide and is the only sports design firm to offer the combined knowledge of every type of sports facilities from virtually every region of the world, to anywhere in the world. Our philosophy is to provide the very best skills, resource and knowledge locally with the backing of world-wide resources, utilising the digital communications revolution. This has created a global firm working 24 hours a day around the world.

HOK SVE specialises in projects of all sizes from sports clubs and university sports facilities to the 110,000 seat Telstra Stadium (formerly Stadium Australia) and the 72,000 seat Ericsson Stadium for the NFL in North Carolina, USA. The love of sport and architecture has produced many buildings of distinction. These include:

• United Centre, Chicago
• Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, Maryland
• Arsenal FC, London
• Alfred McAlpine Stadium, Huddersfield
• Reebok Stadium for Bolton Wanderers FC, Bolton
• Telstra Stadium Australia, Sydney
• English National Stadium, Wembley
• Hong Kong Stadium
• AELTCC, Centre Court, Wimbledon
• Nashville Arena, Tennessee
• Jacobs Field, Cleveland
• Cheltenham Racecourse
• Oval Cricket Ground, London
• Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park
• Croke Park, Dublin
• Selangor Turf Club, Malaysia
• Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore
• Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas
• Houston Arena, Texas
• Royal Ascot Racecourse, London

Website: www.hoksport.com