HHF Principal, Wendie McAllaster recently joined Jan Harada, CEO of Helping Hands Hawaii, on KITV4’s Good Morning Hawai‘i to share about how businesses can help bring cheer to island families who are struggling this Christmas through the Adopt-A-Family program (AAF). The AAF program is just one of the incredible outreach programs that Helping Hands Hawaii administers […]
Sharing a short note from our summer intern, Naomi Jun! Aloha, My name is Naomi Jun and I am the current summer intern at HHF Planners. I am an undergraduate student at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and will be graduating next semester (Fall 2018) with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies: Urban Environmental Planning. I […]
By: Angelica Rockquemore With the mission statement, “learners of today…leaders of tomorrow,” Pālolo Elementary School (Home of the Pugs!) is committed to instilling a visionary mindset and attitude in its students. For Green Apple Day of Service, the school boldly envisioned an Outdoor Learning Lab for students grades K-5 which would help them to meet STEAM-based learning […]
In the Fall of 2016, we set out to honor the memory of a founding partner of HHF Planners, Larry Helber, by bringing to life a trail he had plotted himself, in an early master plan for the Lyon Arboretum which he loved so dearly. A year later, we celebrated the opening of that pathway, built […]
By: Angelica Rockquemore June 9 – 11 marked ASLA’s inaugural Diversity SuperSummit at the ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture in Washington D.C. Emerging professionals from previous summits welcomed a new cohort and collaboratively developed action plans focused on how to increase representation from communities of color amongst landscape architecture practitioners and professionals, as they are least […]
By: Tina Bushnell A festive time was had by all at the 2017 Preservation Honor Awards hosted by the Historic Hawai‘i Foundation. HHF Planners and the project team, including NAVFAC Hawaii EV-5 and Mason Architects, garnered a preservation commendation award for the Historic Context & Section 110 Eligibility Assessment for Former NASBP Leased Parcels 1-16. […]
I recently began biking to work using the King Street cycle track. Riding into work has helped me stay active and allowed me to avoid the frustrations of sitting in traffic. Although I’ve been commuting by bike for a few months, I still consider myself a novice rider. Truth be told, the learning curve of […]
By Erin Higa and Angelica Rockquemore A few weeks ago, we were proud to represent HHF Planners, as the first USGBC-affiliated firm from Hawai‘i to speak at the Green Schools Conference & Expo. From the first rousing horn blow (courtesy of the KIPP Metro Atlanta Sounds of Royalty band) to the closing challenge, our long trek […]
By: Angelica Rockquemore February 8 – 11 marked the U.S Department of State’s Alumni TIES Seminar, “New Frontiers of Global Public Health” held in Atlanta, Georgia. Organized by World Learning, alumni from U.S. sponsored exchange programs, including the Fulbright Scholarship Program and Benjamin Gilman Scholarship Program, were selected to attend the three-day seminar to learn about […]
Answer: a Flash Heart Bombing of Historic Honolulu! On a recent afternoon, HHFers showed up at the corner of Merchant Street and Fort Street Mall with handwritten paper hearts to support the Historic Hawai‘i Foundation‘s heart bombing of just a few historic buildings in Downtown Honolulu. Heart Bombing was started in 2011 by Buffalo’s Young preservationists, […]