On June 13th, SOM Pride’s New York chapter participated in a private tour of the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation in Midtown Manhattan. Designed by architect Paul Rudolph, the Modulightor Building combines a set of duplex apartments, a design studio, and a showroom in a complex spatial composition. It is one of the few Rudolph structures … Continued
On June 5th, 2019, the SOM design team joined San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Related California, and city officials for a topping out ceremony at 49 South Van Ness, located in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood. The new 465,000-square-foot civic building, which provides office space for up to 1,800 city employees, will be home to San Francisco’s … Continued
RegenCities, a 2018 American Planning Association Smart Cities Award-winning research initiative by SOM, aims for the best. RegenCities draws on an SOM-developed, systems-based methodology, which the firm calls “health topography.” It uses geo-referenced information to analyze a city’s vital signs. A scan of public data from open-source portals is combined with census-tract data for a … Continued
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), Architectus, and Dexus Property Group have celebrated the completion and opening of 100 Mount Street, a 35-story mixed-use tower in North Sydney’s Central Business District. Inspired by the city’s rich architectural landscape, and shaped by SOM’s legacy of innovation in architecture and engineering, the scheme features a cross-braced exoskeleton … Continued
Three leaders of SOM’s Year One Research Initiative—Oscar Gomez, Christopher Horiuchi, and Simon McKenzie—will present their work at the 2019 AIASF NEXT/GEN Architecture Conference, which takes place June 27 to 28 in San Francisco. With sessions on business, technology, and design, the conference fosters conversations about the future of the industry. SOM’s presentation, titled “Research … Continued
SOM Design Director Dan Ringelstein will speak at the BuiltWorlds Summit Paris conference on June 28th. He will take part in a panel discussion called “Toward Truly Smarter Cities,” exploring new approaches to city design. On the panel, Ringelstein will discuss how master planning has become focused on developing flexible frameworks that can meet changing demands. New … Continued
On June 25th, 2019 Dmitri Jajich, Structural Engineering Director in SOM’s London office will speak at the 9th Italian/International Tall Buildings Conference in Milan. Jajich will present on significant tall building developments and case studies, including Burj Khalifa. He will also speak about developing and future technologies that are allowing buildings to grow ever taller. Organized … Continued
The ambitious environmental agenda of a new elementary school by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) on Staten Island, New York, is obvious from the first encounter: almost 1,600 photovoltaic (PV) panels cloak the 68,000-square-foot, two-story structure, covering the south facade, extending over its roof, and cantilevering out to float above a playing field. These PVs, … Continued
On Tuesday, June 25th, Design Partner Scott Duncan will give a keynote address at the Australian Smart Skyscraper Summit 2019. Duncan’s presentation, “Buildings that Breathe,” will look at strategies for designing sustainable tall buildings, including the “sponge” approach to natural ventilation. This method, incorporating elements like active and passive ventilation systems, exoskeletal structural systems that play … Continued
As the International Interior Design Association celebrates its 25th anniversary, its annual Interior Design Competition continues to recognize and encourage innovation in the design and furnishing of interior spaces. Its counterpart, the annual Will Ching Design Competition, is still doing the same with awards for commercial projects by firms with five or less employees. … … Continued