The SOM Foundation has announced the 2016 SOM Foundation Fellowships. Since 1981, the foundation has awarded over 200 graduating undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, design, urban design, and structural engineering with money to fund travel and research in the year after graduation. This year’s winners include MIT M.Arch graduate Jongwan Kwon, Columbia University M.Arch … Continued
Three SOM projects were honored in the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) 2016 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards program. The San Francisco Business Times recently published a supplement celebrating the winning projects, which include the LAX Central Terminal Area Pedestrian Bridge Prototype Study; The Strand, American Conservatory Theater; and 350 Mission Street. SOM … Continued
On October 24th, the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the SOM-designed Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability at Sandy Ground as a winner of a Committee on the Environment (COTE) Honor Award. Established in 2014, the awards program seeks to advance sustainable design, reveal lessons learned, and celebrate … Continued
SOM’s renovation of The Strand – American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco has won an Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2016 Global Award for Excellence. The program is widely recognized as one of the land-use industry’s most prestigious awards. This year’s winners—representing projects in Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America—are being honored at the ULI Fall … Continued
Today, the AIA New York Committee on the Environment announced the winners of its third annual AIANY COTE Awards. The four winning projects—all located in densely populated areas within 200 miles of Manhattan’s Central Park—were determined to be exemplars of socially and environmentally responsible urban design. This year’s two honor awards went to the LEED … Continued
The depressed highway is a road from nowhere, the remnant of an Interstate once planned to cut through residential neighborhoods. … The scuttled plan left an open gash — a six-lane trench — that divided Capitol Hill from downtown Washington’s East End. Now, a large air rights project is underway to cover the trench with … Continued
On Saturday, October 29th, Mariana Narvaez, SOM Marketing Manager, will speak at AIA San Francisco’s “Equity by Design” symposium. This fourth edition of the conference, addressing issues related to gender equity in the architecture profession, will take place at the San Francisco Art Institute. Industry experts will contribute to critical discussions on diversity and opportunity … Continued
Most people in Downtown Los Angeles will probably never enter the new United States Courthouse by choice… Still, we think the $350 million, 10-story building is a fine addition to the community, with an attractive design that fits with the context of the neighborhood and interacts well with the surrounding streets. The many environmentally sensible … Continued
Once there were parking lots. Now it’s a huge train station. Or it will be by next summer, when MiamiCentral station — the southern hub for the new Brightline express train service to Orlando — opens for business smack in the middle of downtown. To judge from the architectural renderings, the station will be a … Continued
Lever House, designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) in the international style, completed in 1952, was one of the very first modernist colossuses to rise in New York City. Built to be gazed upon as a structure and to be inhabited by the employees of Lever Brothers, … Continued