On April 9, 2014, SOM Partner Roger Duffy will participate in a panel discussion about the future of Penn Station. Hosted by the Center for Architecture, the event will focus on the plans developed by four architecture firms in response to a design challenge issued by the Municipal Art Society of New York to re-envision … Continued
Now in its sixth year, the MAS Summit for NYC convenes designers and civic leaders for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of the city. SOM Design Partner Roger Duffy and Associate Director Christopher Cooper both spoke at this year’s event, which features more than 50 expert sessions on topics including urban innovation, resilience, infrastructure, … Continued
What’s behind the design and construction of the new University Center? No one better to ask than lead architect Roger Duffy (FAIA, NCARB, Design Partner, SOM). In The New School’s second sneak peak inside the new focal point of the university, Duffy discusses how his design reflects the historical architecture of Greenwich Village and the … Continued
Leaders in campus design, education, and economic development will convene at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 30th and 31st for a symposium on designing places that drive innovation. MIT is marking the centennial of its Cambridge campus with the conference, which is titled “Designing Places for Inventing the Future.” On Wednesday, March 30th, SOM … Continued
Presented by ENR New York, “Making the Grade: What’s Next in Higher Education Construction” provides an in-depth look at the current state and future outlook of the higher education development market, featuring regional construction and development projects in both the public and private sectors. Roger Duffy, FAIA, Design Partner, SOM will join higher education industry … Continued
This four-part video series explores the “Waterline” studio course led by SOM Partner Philip Enquist in 2011 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. During the course, students in architecture, urban design, urban planning, and landscape architecture confronted the underutilized and under-appreciated South Branch of the Chicago River. Under Enquist’s guidance, the students seamlessly merged … Continued
In 2014, at the International Technology and Manufacturing Show in Chicago, a car was printed on the showroom floor. A massive 7’x13’x3′ 3D printer—a collaboration between Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Local Motors, and Cincinnati Inc.—laid out a line of carbon fiber-infused plastic for 40 hours, building the body layer by layer. That same year, Phillip Enquist, … Continued
Harvard University Graduate School of Design students spent a semester on the South Branch looking for its future, in studio with SOM Urban Design and Planning Partner Phil Enquist. Their work is featured in an exhibition in partnership with SOM and Friends of the Chicago River. Waterline: 21st Century Visions for Chicago River’s South Branch … Continued
In January, the big-name architects behind 1 World Trade Center rolled into the International Builders Conference with researchers from a small lab in Tennessee. They brought with them a most unusual building, a white tubelike structure that looked something like the convergence of an Airstream and a fish. It had ribs and gills and a … Continued
The thriving city of Chicago is known for many things — deep dish pizza, its blustery weather, and the sky-high Willis Tower. But, more recently, America’s third-largest city developed a reputation for its engrossing selection of public art, like the ever-popular Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor or Jaume Plensa’s Crown Fountain. To commemorate the city’s … Continued