Bill Hellmuth, chairman and CEO of HOK Inc. and the backbone of the architecture firm's D.C. presence, died April 6 after a long illness, HOK announced. He was 69.
Hellmuth had a hand in the design of dozens of buildings in Greater Washington, including Constitution Square, D.C.'s Consolidated Forensic Laboratory, the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and the National Center for Weather and Climate Prediction.
"He was a whirlwind of energy, he was always on the move,"…