Hasta La Ideas

Since we seem to be on a woes-of-architecture kick this morning, let’s just keep going. So, the question to kick this post off is: if you have a major complaint several years after a company has decided to split up and change its name, who exactly are you supposed to sue? Such is the question being asked by the Polk County Board of Supervisors in Des Moines, Iowa, who have decided to file suit against mega-firm HOK Sport over issues it’s had with “breach of contract and alleged design problems” with the Iowa Events Center it designed for the county. The only trick is that HOK Sport doesn’t exist anymore. It spun off from its parent company, HOK, just over two years ago, renaming itself Populous in the process. But it was originally hired by Polk County when it was still a part of HOK. We believe that the county is likely going after Populous, as we’re assuming that all liability went with the company as it split off from its original parent, but it’s a little difficult tricky to tell, as Archinect points out here. Regardless of who they’re after, the county wants $5 million to fix the problems with the building, which was completed in 2005.

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