The premiere of our video entitled “Engineering an Icon: How One World Trade Center Redefined Structural Engineering and Recreated an Icon for New York” was one of today’s program highlights… T.J. Gottesdiener (SOM) discuss the challenges of re-creating an icon in a very unique context. ?Source: WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff
Bisnow’s NY Office of the Future will focus on the driving factors that have lured major tech/creative space users into New York City, where explosive growth has occurred, and on what developers/owners/service providers are providing to make sure these companies stay for good. SOM Managing Partner T.J. Gottesdiener, FAIA, will be among the presenters discussing … Continued
“ Anybody who says this has taken a long time is shooting from the hip,” said Mr. Gottesdiener, a partner at SOM since 1994. “I think this has been a very inclusive process, a very public process, and, for many families, a very painful process. This is a Herculean effort and I think 13 years is … Continued
Conde Nast began moving into 1 World Trade Center Monday morning. It’s an important day for many New Yorkers, including the thousands who have worked on the building. NY1’s Budd Mishkin spoke with the architect who led the team designing 1 World Trade Center: T.J. Gottesdiener.
During T.J. Gottesdiener’s 35-year tenure at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he is a partner, he has traveled the world, working on the designs of various large-scale domestic and international projects, such as the 607-foot-tall AIA Tower in Hong Kong and the $3 billion mixed-use Tokyo Midtown complex in Japan. But the most notable project … Continued
For decades Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been at the forefront of innovative corporate interiors. So when the U.S. Census Bureau outgrew its 65-year-old building (it wanted to consolidate half of its 12,000 employees), it turned to SOM to provide a solution that would apply the latest corporate-workplace thinking to a government agency while … Continued
Designers and architects have pondered how to design an office to encourage productivity for more than 100 years. In the early 20th century, offices resembled factories. Starting in the 1960s layouts changed to foster teamwork. And by the beginning of the 21st century, office design sought to inspire creativity. Under each fad, there were ideas … Continued
Now in its fifth year, the Vertical Cities conference explores how innovative high-rise design can provide a sustainable solution for high-density cities. This year’s edition, which takes place in Hong Kong from March 7th to 10th, features talks from SOM leaders and spotlights the firm’s influential work in China. On Monday, March 7th, Peter J. … Continued
SOM Directors Silas Chiow and Thomas Hussey will join Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin in a panel discussion based on the newspaper’s recent series, “Designed in Chicago, Made in China.” The conversation will address the issues that arise when world-class architecture meets rapid urban development. Additional panelists include Perkins + Will Principal … Continued
SOM’s leadership in tall building will once again be represented at the annual global conference of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), which takes place on Monday, October 26th and Tuesday, October 27th at the Grand Hyatt in New York. The theme of the CTBUH 2015 International Conference—”Global Interchanges: Resurgence of the … Continued