On Thursday, March 15th, SOM Director Jed Zimmerman will participate in a panel and roundtable discussion titled “The Inside Track on SOCAL Projects.” The event is hosted by the Los Angeles Headquarters Association (LAHq) and centers on an exploration of current and recent projects from the perspective of area architects. Zimmerman will discuss several completed SOM-designed projects, … Continued
On Tuesday, March 13th, the winner of a competition to design a 21st-century time capsule for 875 N. Michigan (formerly John Hancock Center) will be announced at 360 Chicago, the building’s 94th-floor observation deck. The building’s original time capsule, which had been installed when the SOM-designed building’s steelwork was completed in 1968, will be unsealed … Continued
On Thursday, March 15th, Karen O’Doherty and Alejandra Delgado will speak at Solutions at Work Live, a conference organized by Bright Horizons. O’Doherty is a Senior Manager of Human Resources based in SOM’s Chicago office and Delgado is an Assistant Benefits Manager based in New York. O’Doherty will join a panel discussion that includes Deborah … Continued
On Tuesday, March 13th, SOM Associate Neil Katz will speak at the Facade Tectonics 2018 World Congress in Los Angeles. The event aims to improve building performance and the urban habitat through the art, science, and technology of facades. It brings together industry and academic leaders who have a deep knowledge of the building facade … Continued
Plans are taking shape for redeveloping the 19-acre tract that is currently home to the American-Statesman’s offices, with the site’s owners choosing a pair of high-profile design firms to turn the waterfront property into a mixed-use project. … Skidmore, Owings & Merrill will plan the placement and orientation of buildings, streets and sidewalks throughout the … Continued
Hudson’s Bay Company, which is the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor and namesake Hudson’s Bay, had a problem: how to make the members of its various brands feel like they are part of one team. The answer? Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, commonly known as SOM, designed a social meeting space in … Continued
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is a world leader in creating iconic and influential architecture that goes beyond aesthetics. The firm’s projects push the envelope of what materials can do on a grand scale. This is readily seen through their glass façades, where they work to develop building skins that showcase new ideas and … Continued
Between the late 1960s and early 1980s, few architects or developers could rival John Portman’s impact on America’s downtowns. And few built in such intensely polarizing ways. … Perhaps the best example of a Portman do-over is one of Whyte’s subjects—Detroit’s Renaissance Center. In the mid-1990s, General Motors agreed to relocate its headquarters into the … Continued
The challenges of living on Mars will no doubt rewrite some of the rules of urban design. But by redefining how we interact with nature-and with ourselves-space colonization offers a broader chance to remake urbanism itself, writes the Earth Institute’s Sarah Fecht. … Sarah Fecht runs the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet blog. This article was … Continued
On March 7th, the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) inducted Susan Merrigan, Senior Marketing Manager in SOM’s Washington, D.C. office, into its Academy of Fellows. SAME is a nonprofit organization dedicated to resolving national security infrastructure-related challenges. The organization comprises more than 28,000 A/E/C professionals across 105 posts throughout the nation. The Academy of Fellows was … Continued