King Abdullah Financial District Conference Center

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The new SOM-designed conference center  provides housing and meal service as well as catering to conferees and will use minimum amounts of energy and water to do so.

Related Work

Design

MIT, William Sloan School of Management

The Beyer Blinder Belle addition of a new penthouse floor, along with a complete gut-renovation of the Building E-52 conference center, will increase the number of events the building can host and the corresponding revenues gained. HOPKINS’ scope included renovation of a large production kitchen and a remote full-service bake shop, to which we added a third finishing kitchen on the penthouse level and catering pantries near all conference rooms.

International

King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center

Designed by HOK, this new research center houses international attendees and their families during extended course sessions and offers a variety of meal options in a highly sustainable fashion.

Design

Camp Lemonier

As a consultant to URS Corporation, HOPKINS designed a new 25,000 square foot dining hall to serve up to 3,000 soldiers 22 hours a day. When the budget for this project was slashed, HOPKINS was sent to Djibouti to survey surplus foodservice equipment in storage to identify pieces that could be salvaged to allow the project to proceed through construction.