Chicago, IL: The Chicago Lakeside Development—a joint venture between McCaffery Interests and U.S. Steel Corporation—has won the first Sustainia Community Award. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the award—entirely decided by the public via Sustainia’s large social media network—on Oct. 11 during a ceremony at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. The inaugural Sustainia Community Award “honors the … Continued
Chicago, IL: The McCaffery Interests and U.S. Steel Corporation’s master plan for Chicago Lakeside, designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), has been named one of 10 finalists for the first Sustainia Award. The project was named to the Sustainia100 in July at the United Nation’s Rio+21 conference as one of 100 projects and ideas … Continued
Chicago, IL: The city design practice of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is delighted that its master plan for the Magellan Group’s Lakeshore East development was honored Monday with the Metropolitan Planning Council’s 2011 Burnham Award for Planning Excellence. Philip Enquist, SOM Partner in Charge of Urban Planning worldwide, congratulated Magellan co-CEO’s James R. Loewenberg … Continued
Chicago, Illinois: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), in partnership with the International Secretariat for Water (ISW) and the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF), presents Great Cities, Great Lakes, Great Basin. The new exhibition calls for a 100-year vision to guide planning and development in the binational watershed of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and … Continued
Chicago, IL: Dramatically redefining the contextual scale of urban planning, the City Design Practice of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is winning international support in its urgent call for a 100-year vision to protect environmentally and revitalize economically the entire U.S.-Canada Great Lakes region, the world’s largest source of surface fresh water. The vast binational … Continued
As a Charles Moore visiting professor, SOM Partner Philip Enquist co-taught an advanced design studio on Detroit at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in 2006. This film shows how students from various backgrounds took different focuses on architecture and planning issues and how the dialogue in the studio extended to other stakeholders.
Chicago, IL: The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has conferred its 2013 Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative (Cities Initiative) for their work to create a vision for an international region that contains the largest source of surface … Continued
While the Emanuel administration has proposed only two BRT lines, proponents such as John Greenfield, the editor of Streetsblog Chicago, and Philip Enquist, a partner at urban planning firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, advocate transforming two dozen major thoroughfares—running both east-west (including Irving Park Road, North Avenue, and 79th and 95th Streets) and north-south (California, … Continued
In his landmark 1984 book Biophilia, acclaimed biologist Edward O. Wilson defined the term biophilia as “the urge humans have to affiliate with other forms of life.” Since then, individuals from a variety of disciplines have applied this concept of being one with nature to everyday living. “What most cities have in common are … Continued
SOM has won three Honor Awards, including the top accolade of the year, from the AIA Illinois chapter. The awards were announced on Friday, April 11, at a dinner and ceremony in Springfield, Illinois. The Great Lakes Vision Plan received the organization’s top prize, the Louis Sullivan Honor Award. “The jury was in awe of … Continued