On Monday, November 16, and Tuesday, November 17, SOM Director Nicole Dosso will participate in the Leadership Summit on the Business of Design at the Harvard Club of New York City. The invitation-only event is hosted by the Design Futures Council, which brings together leaders in architecture, design, engineering, construction, and real estate who are … Continued
Nicole Dosso, SOM Director, will speak at this year’s Bloomberg Business Design 2015 conference in San Francisco on April 28, 2015. Now in its third year, the annual event brings together world-renowned designers for discussions on “how design and technology are changing the way we live, work, and play.” Dosso will join 25 other design … Continued
Rising to new heights is nothing new for Nicole Dosso, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, who is known for building the tallest tower in the United States, One World Trade Center. However, Dosso, a technical director at the New York office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), is the first to tell you that she didn’t … Continued
Dosso takes great pride in 1 World Trade Center. She tells me a story about attending a special event at the 9/11 Memorial Museum before it opened in May, pausing on the Memorial plaza on her way out and gazing up at 1 WTC from that angle for the first time: “I had to stop … Continued
The 20th and 21st centuries are dotted with iconic skyscrapers by the architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). The Hancock Tower, the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower), the Burj Khalifa, and the still-under-construction One World Trade Center all soar heavenwards as feats of design and engineering. And some 40 years into designing … Continued
New York’s iconic skyline has long served as an inspiration for developers and urban planners in East Asia. Now, this creative flow is showing signs of reversing — and Manhattan is becoming increasingly similar to cities like Hong Kong. New-York based architects have built skyscrapers, airports, and public parks in East Asia’s rapidly growing cities. … Continued
The SOM-designed Mount Sinai Hess Center for Science and Medicine houses both medical research and outpatient care; it features collaborative lounges where researchers can informally collaborate, as well as a four-story atrium where they intermix with the patients whose lives they impact—a “subliminal” reminder of their work’s importance, notes SOM design partner Mustafa K. Abadan.
SOM Design Partner Mustafa Abadan will participate in a panel discussion about the new John Jay College of Criminal Justice, designed by SOM. He will join Meghan Moore-Wilk, Director of Space Planning at CUNY Central Office, and Robert Pignatello, Senior Vice President of the Office of Finance and Administration at the CUNY John Jay College … Continued
As part of an ongoing video series, Designer Pages speaks with Mustafa Abadan, SOM Design Partner, about various projects, including Tokyo Midtown and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “The determinants of design are so different from project to project,” said Abadan, “but it’s those elements that make the components of great architecture.”
Architect Mustafa Kemal Abadan is a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s New York office. In an interview, we discussed in detail new and old projects in New York and other cities, and architecture issues like urbanization and the future.