Fifteen years ago, HOK Technical Principal Angelo Arzanoemerged from a building into the choking dust just blocks from the collapsed twin towers in New York on 9/11. Little did he know that he would later spend four years of his life at the design firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as senior project architect on the symbol of America’s resilience – One World Trade Center (One WTC).
Today, he’s reaping the rewards of his work as the national construction industry weekly Engineering News Record (ENR) has named One WTC one of the world’s best projects.
Arzano joined the HOK St. Louis office in 2013 and is now executing the design the firm’s largest project locally, the BJC HealthCare Washington University School of Medicine Campus Renewal.