On Friday, September 6th, “Reflections: The Anatomy of Form” opened at the Design Museum as part of London Design Festival 2019. Running through Tuesday, October 1st, the exhibition is the latest in a series of special exhibitions presented in collaboration with venues around the world. Showing for the first time in London, the exhibition comprises … Continued
The Partners of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) are pleased to announce the appointment of the following individuals as Directors, effective October 1, 2019: Preetam Biswas, Meredith Bostwick-Lorenzo Eiroa, Lonny Israel, Benton Johnson, Joyce Lam, Aaron Mazeika, and Keith O’Connor. As design and management experts, all new directors are renowned and talented leaders in their respective … Continued
. . . The annual awards are among the real estate industry’s most prestigious and demonstrate “a comprehensive level of quality and a forward-looking approach to development and design,” ULI said in a statement . . .
On Tuesday, September 24th, Aaron Mazeika, Associate Director of Structural Engineering, will give a lecture titled “Environmentally Conscious Structural Design of High-Rise Towers” at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Mazeika will present the same lecture at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Lithuania the following week, on Monday, September 30th. In his lecture, Mazeika will discuss the responsibility … Continued
On Saturday, September 21st, the City of Long Beach celebrated the grand opening of its new main library, named after celebrated tennis player and social activist Billie Jean King. The library is the third building to be completed as part of the larger Long Beach Civic Center (LBCC) project—a public-private partnership development led by Plenary-Edgemoor Civic Partners … Continued
On Thursday, September 19th, the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) held the IDEAS2 Awards ceremony at the Superior Court of California in San Diego. Project teams from SOM, the Herrick Corporation, Rudolph and Sletten, and the Judicial Council of California all participated in the ceremony. Earlier this year, the project was honored with AISC’s IDEAS2 National … Continued
On Tuesday, September 24th, Associate Director Anthony Treu will speak at the Bisnow National Healthcare Series: Midwest Real Estate Summit in Chicago. He will participate in a panel titled “Future of Healthcare Facilities: Design, Tech, Construction and Driving Revenue Through Innovation.” Alongside other leaders in the healthcare industry, Treu will discuss topics such as the … Continued
On Monday, February 4th, the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) honored the Superior Court of California in San Diego with an IDEAS2 National Award. The annual program, formally known as the Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel National Awards, recognizes projects that utilize structural steel in an innovative manner. A panel … Continued
A mix of functions, low density, lively open spaces and environmental sustainability. Four new towns under construction in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana propose “small size” as a useful planning formula to cope with the population explosion under way. We talk about it with the architects Dan Ringelstein and Gareth Edwards of SOM, the practice responsible … Continued
On Tuesday, September 17th, Director of Urban Design and Planning Ellen Lou participated in a panel discussion during this year’s ULI Fall Meeting, held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. During an afternoon forum, which was titled “Innovative City-Building in Asia’s Mega Cities – What’s Next?,” Lou offered insights on value, risk, investment, and development … Continued