A new dawn is coming for a lower Manhattan landmark. With Chase gone, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a proposal for an adaptive reuse of the plaza in front of the building formerly known as One Chase Manhattan Plaza (now 28 Liberty Street since Fosun International Ltd. bought). There will be ground floor retail and … Continued
On Friday, October 14th, SOM Structural and Civil Engineering Partners William F. Baker and Mark Sarkisian will deliver a lecture at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark. Coinciding with the opening of “Sky’s the Limit: The Engineering of Architecture” in nearby Aalborg, the lecture will shed light on SOM’s integrated structural engineering practice. Informed by SOM’s 80-year … Continued
SOM Technical Director Lucas Tryggestad will speak in a panel discussion on career success at the Building Design + Construction (BD+C) Under 40 Leadership Summit. The annual summit convenes more than 100 BD+C 40 Under 40 winners and professionals from the architecture, engineering, and construction industries for leadership training, professional development, and networking. In 2015, Tryggestad was named … Continued
On Friday, October 28th, SOM Interior Design Partner Stephen Apking will moderate a discussion at Office of the Future, a summit on changes in workplace design and strategy. Presented by Convene, the event brings together over 350 industry leaders to share knowledge and to discuss future trends. ? Apking will moderate a panel discussion titled “Top Floor: Forward Thinking Landlords Talk with Large and Fast-Growing Tenants.” With office design … Continued
People are always sending us e-mail messages asking for information about Chicago’s latest and greatest architecture. Today we present another one of Chicago’s latest and greatest architects. Lucas Tryggestad is one of five people from Chicagoland selected for this year’s AIA Young Architects Award. The AIA describes him thusly: “SOM’s third Young Architects Award honoree, … Continued
Discover why these 40 young professionals truly represent the emerging superstars of the AEC industry. Many of them come from interesting lineages. Peter Ousley’s grandfather hid a printing press in his basement and churned out posters for the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Rachel Sowards’ paternal grandfather carried the torch at the 1996 Oympics. … Continued
SOM Associate Director Lucas Tryggestad will participate in a panel discussion entitled “Tomorrowland: New Technologies Creating a Design Revolution” at the 2016 Hospitality Design Expo in Las Vegas on Thursday, May 5th. Tryggestad will discuss his work on AMIE 1.0, the world’s largest 3D-printed polymer structure, which shares electricity wirelessly with a 3D-printed car. AMIE … Continued
At this year’s American Institute of Architects (AIA) Convention, which takes place in Philadelphia on May 19-21, SOM will present its work for the AMIE demonstration project in two events. AMIE, the Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy project, was a collaboration between SOM and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). SOM designed … Continued
SOM Design Partner Brian Lee will lead two tours of the Chicago Public Library, Chinatown Branch on October 18th and 19th. Led by Know Your Chicago, the “Architects of Global Knowledge” tours are hosted respectively by Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, and Zurich Esposito, Executive Vice President of AIA Chicago. The Chinatown Branch … Continued
Luke Leung, SOM Director of Sustainable Engineering, is leading a study with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) on the future of elevator design. For the project, titled “A Study on the Design Possibilities Enabled by Rope-less, Non-vertical Elevators,” Leung and a team of elevator and engineering experts will explore a broad range of possibilities, … Continued