Talk:Populous (company)

Air Canada Centre
I have to disagree with the listing that HOK Sport designed the Air Canada Centre. ACC was designed by Brisbin, Brook, and Beynon and it even states so on the WIKI entry on the ACC. Djmichaelallen (talk) 04:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Djmichaelallen, technically you are correct that the Architect of Record for the ACC is BBB, however the Design Architect is HOK-SVE. It is common practice for large, specialty and/or prominent design firms to select a local architect as part of the team. For example, the design of Williams Tower in Houston is credited to Philip Johnson, but the Architect of Record is Morris Architects.

IceBRG (talk) 18:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Added Chukchansi Park to the Minor League Baseball Parks Cadking3 (talk) 02:13, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

New name, old name
Some of the "works" on this page are given by their current name (Progressive [Jacobs] Field, AT&T [Pacific Bell] Park) rather than their original name; the architecture firm had nothing to do with the new name, presumably. Should the initial name be listed with the new name in parenthesis? Is there a Wikipedia style Consensus on this? Blackplate (talk) 02:25, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It should definitely be the present name. Jc121383 (talk) 03:59, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Anything that was developed by HOK Sport, prior to the name change was NOT developed by Populous, but by HOK Sport. 72.229.239.238 (talk) 04:37, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Populous/HOK Sport referencing issue
This architecture company was renamed from HOK Sport to Populous in January 2009. I was following this rule when articles on the company' projects are edited:


 * Any article of a Populous/HOK Sport project developed and opened before the January 2009 renaming has the company referred to as "HOK Sport" (or sometimes "HOK Sport Venue Event", or even "HOK Sport (now Populous)")
 * Any article of a Populous/HOK Sport project that was in the process of development of construction at the time of the renaming has the company referred to as "Populous (formerly HOK Sport)".
 * Any article of a Populous/HOK Sport project that began development or construction after the renaming has the company referred to as "Populous".

I have seen a couple of users (One which is named "PopulousKC" (now banned), and an IP, "63.76.24.4") change articles of even Populous/HOK Sport's earliest projects (such as Dolphins Stadium in Miami Gardens or New Comiskey Park in Chicago) to refer to the company as solely "Populous". Such references to the "Populous" name are considered anachronistic, since the stadiums I mentioned were developed and opened way before the January 2009 renaming of the company. The changing of the "HOK Sport" references to the Populous name within those articles would most likely result in edit wars. Jim856796 (talk) 04:25, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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Article Improvements
Hello, all. I recently joined Populous as an employee and am seeking editors' help in making the company's page stronger per Wikipedia's guidelines. It seems the need for additional citations for verification stems from the article's introduction text. Does this sound right to you all?

For example, the second paragraph of the introduction could be removed as it includes non-neutral language like "dominant" and perhaps too long a list of projects to succinctly summarize the company.

Thank you in advance for helping out a fellow with an obvious conflict of interest. Bewarethephog (talk) 19:00, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, Bewarethephog. Yes, there is no real need for the second paragraph in its current state. Aside from that, I would split the section of Sports projects into a List of Populous sports projects type of article. Maybe using a sortable table into a separate "list of" entry you may add features in different columns such as "year", "city", "coordinates" and, why not, a "pic". Getting something fancy from it. But that's my personal suggestion. Best regards.--Asqueladd (talk) 20:30, 13 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for your response, Asqueladd. I especially appreciate your suggestion of creating a sortable list. On the topic of the second paragraph, would I be out of line removing it myself (for the reasons stated above) and also removing the related template? It appears as though by removing the paragraph and the non-neutral language it includes it would address the issue behind the template. Bewarethephog (talk) 19:08, 18 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I would have no objections to your edits. Altamel (talk) 01:25, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

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Motor Sports Facilities section
An Indonesian editor has added uncited controversial content to this article, suggesting that Populous is responsible for design of a motor racing track Mandalika International Street Circuit in Indonesia, and also made similar changes at that article in November  2021. Populous' own website suggests that they developed a building within the race complex.

Other Indonesian editors using IP addresses have made similar changes to the circuit infobox during February 2022. Please see Talk:Mandalika International Street Circuit for links to the designer's LinkedIn statement (Mrk1, not Populous) and Populous. Thank you.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 00:36, 27 February 2022 (UTC)