This year, MIPIM celebrates its 30th edition with a conference program that reflects on how drivers such as digital technology, urbanization, climate change, population growth, and globalization present an opportunity to envision the future of the built environment. SOM Design Partner Kent Jackson and Managing Partner Thomas Behr will be returning to MIPIM to discuss … Continued
Not content with only 13 supertall towers, including Santiago Calatrava’s 3,000-plus-foot-tall Dubai Creek Tower, the state-owned Dubai Holding has revealed plans for the 1,804-foot-tall Burj Jumeira. The split-volume tower, which will feature a large void between its two curvilinear masses (resembling an elongated take on Zaha Hadid Architects’ Macau Hotel), will erupt from a pond … Continued
Dubai Holding has released details of the latest skyscraper planned for the UAE metropolis, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The Burj Jumeira will soar 550 meters in the air, “inspired by the harmonious ripples of the UAE’s desert sand dunes and its flowing oases.” Inaugurated by the UAE’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum … Continued
For more than 125 years, Barnard College has been known for its distinctive academic culture—dedicated to women of intellect, ambition, and vision, devoted to the integration of teaching and scholarship, embracing its relationship with Columbia University, and imbued with the vibrancy of New York City. . . . The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center for … Continued
On Monday, March 4th, Philip Enquist will participate in a panel discussion at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. Enquist, SOM Consulting Partner in Urban Design and Planning, will present SOM’s updated master plan for the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The firm first designed the master plan for the city in 1949. Enquist will … Continued
The first design illustrations of the new 550 metre Burj Jumeira were published at the end of January – and it’s a stunner. Architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has now released new details of the project which is expected to complete its first phase in 2023. Located directly between the iconic Burj Al Arab … Continued
Visuals have been released of the SOM-designed Burj Jumeira, a 550-metre-tall split-volume skyscraper in Dubai that will rise from a lake shaped like the fingerprint of the emirate’s ruler. Unveiled by state-owned Dubai Holding, the supertall skyscraper has been dubbed as the “new icon in Dubai’s skyline”. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), it will be located near the city’s waterfront opposite the Sheikh … Continued
The design for Burj Jumeira, an aerodynamic, 550-metre tower in Dubai’s Jumeirah neighborhood has been unveiled, revealing a futuristic aesthetic for what is anticipated to be one of the tallest buildings in the world upon completion. “Burj Jumeira is bold, elegant, and dynamic,” said Mustafa Abadan, a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), … Continued
On Tuesday, March 5th, SOM Associate Haley Van Wagenen will speak at Futurebuild 2019. The three-day event, which will take place in London, focuses on combating the challenges impacting the contemporary built environment. Van Wagenen, an Interior Design specialist based in SOM’s London office, will speak on a panel titled “Evolution of the European Workplace … Continued
Barnard College occupies a small four-acre campus in New York’s Morningside Heights neighborhood, meaning expansion this century has involved the demolition of smaller modern buildings and their replacement with taller buildings. Down came Lehman Hall and up went the Milstein Center, which houses Barnard’s library and numerous other functions. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill answered a … Continued