On Friday, October 28th, Mark Sarkisian, Partner of Structural and Seismic Engineering in SOM’s San Francisco office, will give a lecture titled “Creative Use of Structural Steel in Tall Buildings of the Future” to engineering students and faculty at Tongji University in Shanghai. Founded in 1907, Tongji University is one of China’s leading universities and … Continued
UC Merced, the newest campus in the University of California system, is poised to become a model for other campuses with one of the most efficient ways to construct, operate and maintain facilities that enable teaching, research, and public service missions. The collaborative Merced 2020 project will nearly double the physical capacity of the campus … Continued
Resilient design takes stock of the hazards a project is likely to face—earthquakes, storms, extremes of temperature, floods, fires, or a combination—and builds in the capacity to adapt and recover. In Maritime Southeast Asia, where hazard exposures span a wide range of type and intensity within a small, densely populated area, three current projects respond … Continued
At a ceremony on October 19th, the winners of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) were announced at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture in Chicago. SOM Designer Tommy Nam received the inaugural MCHAP Student Prize with his collaborator Yun Yun, for their project titled “(a)typical office,” a dissection and re-imagination of conventional office design. … Continued
A long vacant and somewhat neglected building from modernist master architect—and Marina City designer—Bertrand Goldberg could be resurrected as a community amenity should a preliminary adaptive reuse study from SOM (Skidmore Owings & Merrill) and Landmarks Illinois be realized. Built in 1967 in suburban Elgin, Illinois on the campus of a former mental health hospital, … Continued
On Wednesday, November 2nd, SOM Design Partner Brian Lee will speak at the School of Architecture at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Presenting on “Innovation in Practice,” Lee will highlight SOM’s recent research into new building methods and typologies, including his work on the Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy (AMIE 1.0) demonstration project, currently the world’s … Continued
SOM Design Partner Kent Jackson and Associate Director Peter Jackson will each participate in panel discussions at next week’s London Build 2016 Expo. On Wednesday, October 26th, Peter Jackson will join a panel to discuss the challenges of designing London’s largest regeneration and housing developments. He will present SOM’s work on the New Covent Garden … Continued
SOM is proud to acknowledge the individuals who were promoted to become Associate Directors and Associates from October 1st, 2016 These 42 staff members, based in seven offices worldwide, have each excelled in their areas of expertise. As design, engineering, technical, and urban planning professionals, together they reflect SOM’s integrated design approach. Along with the newly elected … Continued
SOM’s San Francisco office teamed with Whiting-Turner, BuroHappold and Clarendon JBBP Elementary School at the 34th annual Sandcastle Classic benefiting Leap Arts in Education. The charity event brings together teams of architects, engineers, contractors, designers, corporations, and local elementary school students to envision, design and build giant sand sculptures. The event took place on Saturday, … Continued
A concept called “co-location” puts libraries in everything from community centers to high schools as a way to lower building costs and increase the number of library patrons. Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to give it a new twist, putting Chicago Public Library branches in eye-catching works of architecture that will also house tenants of the … Continued