As far as briefs go, this was far from ordinary. In 2005, HOK's London office was commissioned to design and build a British public school for Kazakhstan's largest city, with the opening scheduled for a mere 20 months away. Even more unusual was the fact that the firm won the contract after its head of schools architecture got chatting to a British school teacher in Murphy's Irish bar in the Kazakh city of Almaty. "Call it serendipity, if you like," says Stefan Jakobek.
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机译：就内裤而言，这与平常相去甚远。 2005年，HOK的伦敦办公室受委托为哈萨克斯坦最大的城市设计和建造一所英国公立学校，预计开业仅需20个月。更不寻常的是，在哈萨克斯坦阿拉木图市的墨菲爱尔兰酒吧的学校建筑负责人与一名英国学校老师聊天之后，该公司赢得了合同。 “如果您愿意，可以称其为偶然性，” Stefan Jakobek说。
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