HK Associates Inc is an award winning architecture firm made up of husband and wife team Kathy Hancox and Michael Kothke. Before forming HK Associates, Michael and Kathy followed largely independent but parallel career paths, with each making significant contributions to internationally recognized architecture firms in both Canada and the United States: Patkau Architects, Peter Cardew Architects, Acton Johnson Ostry, Lundberg Design, SOM, and Leddy Maytum Stacy.
An opportunity to work together with Rick Joy brought them to Tucson, AZ in 2003 where they fell in love with the desert, later establishing HK Associates.HK believes in the power of thoughtful design to enrich life, and views every project as an opportunity to create something meaningful.
Striving for elegance and honesty in design, our creative approach is client and site specific, structuring spaces and moments that are timeless and contextual.For us, architecture is a process of revealing that results in places that reveal.
An opportunity to work together with Rick Joy brought them to Tucson, AZ in 2003 where they fell in love with the desert, later establishing HK Associates.HK believes in the power of thoughtful design to enrich life, and views every project as an opportunity to create something meaningful.
Striving for elegance and honesty in design, our creative approach is client and site specific, structuring spaces and moments that are timeless and contextual.For us, architecture is a process of revealing that results in places that reveal.
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Emerging from the desert, Canyon House is equal parts landform and a mechanism for viewing. Stoic on the exterior - but transcending an object in the landscape - Canyon House blurs the boundary between inside and out, imprinting the exterior environment onto the interior of the home: revealing life as a series of moments, vistas and reflections.
Now or Never is a retail concept with a global focus on objects and accessories for modern life and the modern home. Situated within the MSA Annex shipping-container enclave of Tucson's Mercado District, the design of this interior was inspired by the client's fashion and retail expertise, as well as by their attention to global and local design currents.
Situated in a nondescript subdivision on Tucson's eastside, the Courtyards House is a desert minimalist reinvention of residential suburban inhabitation. Conceived as a series of interlocking interior and exterior volumes, the living spaces of the home contain, or are contained by six individual courtyards.
Salon Salon is a a fresh interpretation of the typology of a hair salon. Situated within Tucson's Historic Train Depot (restored and renovated by Poster Frost Mirto in 2004), as much as the project is a retail space, it also aspires to connect, in the spirit of an Enlightenment salon, as a social amenity within Tucson's downtown revival.
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Kaelen Harwell Johnson
May 25, 2017
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