On December 14th, 2016, SOM Design Partner Kent Jackson and members of the Manhattan Loft Gardens project team attended the topping-out ceremony in Stratford, London. The completion of the Manhattan Loft Gardens structure marks an exceptional engineering achievement. The tower’s design features two sky gardens that carve out a space, removing half of the building’s … Continued
The Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability at Sandy Ground has been selected as a 2017 finalist in the ULI New York Awards for Excellence in Development. The program honors the most exemplary land use and development projects in the New York region, and the winners will be announced at the Awards for Excellence … Continued
The Architect’s Newspaper has announced the winners of its 2016 Best of Design Awards, which celebrate the year’s most exciting and innovative building projects across the United States. This year, SOM projects have been honored in three categories. The Strand, American Conservatory Theater won the Best of Design Award in Building Renovation; the Center for Character & Leadership … Continued
Earlier this month, Sky’s the Limit: The Engineering of Architecture opened at the world-renowned Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark. The exhibition is an in-depth, multimedia exploration of SOM’s extensive structural engineering portfolio, presenting the firm’s uniquely integrated structural and architectural design practice and its contributions to city skylines across the globe. View this slideshow to explore the exhibition. … Continued
In 1986, Kenneth Lewis began his career architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) as a mere junior designer. Now fast forward to present day and Lewis can be found at the front-lines of the globally recognized company serving as a partner. Over his 30-year tenure with SOM, Lewis has been in involved in the … Continued
Three SOM projects—Beijing Greenland Center, OKO Tower, and the United States Air Force Academy Center for Character and Leadership Development—won the 2016 ASHRAE Illinois Excellence in Engineering Award. Presented at a ceremony in Chicago on Tuesday, December 6th, the awards recognize outstanding engineering work by members of the Illinois chapter of the American Society of … Continued
The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum doesn’t quite compare to the billion dollar stadiums we see today—but the time of its completion in 1966, the arena looked like no other American sports venue. With the ability to stage two functions simultaneously, it was designed to accommodate not only indoor and outdoor athletic events, but exhibitions, theatrical presentations, … Continued
Two SOM projects received awards in the Spaces category of the 2016 Spark Design Awards. In its tenth year, the international awards program celebrates design excellence and talented designers across a wide range of categories and scales. 350 Mission, a state-of-the-art, 30-story LEED® Platinum-certified office building in downtown San Francisco, received a Spark! Award, the highest honor in … Continued
An “alternative Christmas tree” designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) has been erected in the courtyard of the Utzon Center, coinciding with SOM’s current exhibition, Sky’s the Limit. Located on the waterfront in Aalborg, Denmark, the Utzon Center was the last project to be designed by the center’s namesake, renowned Danish architect Jørn Utzon…. “Stepping into … Continued
On Thursday, December 8th, the SOM Women’s Initiative hosted a conversation at the New York office with Barnard College President Debora Spar. In conversation with SOM Associate Director Meredith Bostwick-Lorenzo Eiroa, Spar discussed her background and work at Barnard. She also spoke about the collaborative design process for the Teaching and Learning Center, a new … Continued