On June 16, Amtrak, Brandywine Realty Trust, Drexel University, PennDOT and SEPTA unveiled the Philadelphia 30th Street Station District Plan and announced the initiation of several follow-on projects to improve the immediate station area and catalyze future development throughout the District. The Plan is a collaborative two-year joint planning effort to produce a single, integrated … Continued
Inspired by a Life magazine article about Frank Lloyd Wright, Gertrude Kerbis, then a student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, hitchhiked to Wright’s Taliesin estate in Spring Green, Wis. Entranced by the rooms she was seeing as she peered through glass exterior walls, she crawled in a bathroom window and somehow managed to … Continued
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) revisit their design of Colorado Springs’ Air Force Academy campus to gift it with a new building, a symbolic yet practical structure which will act as the site’s new Center for Character and Leadership Development, abbreviated to the CCLD. Originally designed by SOM in 1954, the campus which has … Continued
in 1954, global architecture practice SOM completed a campus for the united states air force academy in colorado springs. 62 years later, the firm returns to the site with a new building that serves as an education and research facility. the center for character & leadership development’ (CCLD) creates a new architectural landmark for the … Continued
Amtrak and its partners in the proposed redevelopment of a massive swath around 30th Street Station in University City say the decades-long plan—including partially capping the adjacent rail yard—will involve $6.5 billion in infrastructure funding and private investment. The financial projection is part of the planning team’s final blueprint for the 175-acre site extending northeast … Continued
Capitol Crossing will soon begin to go vertical, after Property Group Partners announced completion of the first phase of construction for the elevated deck above I-395 yesterday. Work will now continue on the first of five buildings, 200 Massachusetts Ave NW, a 400k SF mixed-use building with 30k SF of ground-level retail. The building is … Continued
Anchoring Beijing’s Dawangjing business district, the mixed-use Beijing Greenland Center is a highly sustainable landmark building equidistant from Beijing’s bustling core and the airport. The 260-meter-tall, 55-story tower prioritizes sustainability and efficiency, and is clad in a prismatic trapezoidal glass facade that generates self-shading to enhance the building’s environmental performance. The design team sought to … Continued
On September 18, 2014, three experts from SOM presented at a symposium on tall buildings held by Tongji University’s College of Civil Engineering in Shanghai. Each speaker touched on a different component of the design, development, and construction of tall buildings. Students, faculty, and the public were actively engaged throughout the event. Mark Sarkisian, SOM … Continued
Three SOM leaders will present at the CTBUH Shanghai Conference, “Future Cities: Towards Sustainable Vertical Urbanism.” This year, the three-day event will feature panels, speakers, and workshops that examine how tall buildings can be more sustainably designed by considering the city as a whole. On September 16, SOM Structural and Engineering Partner Mark Sarkisian will … Continued
SOM Director Eric Tomich will present “Inside Burj Khalifa: Static and Architectural Considerations for the Design of Tall Structures” at the Advanced Building Materials Middle East Conference. 2013 Advanced Building Materials Middle East Conference February 6 – 7, 2013 Burj Khalifa Armani Hotel Dubai, United Arab Emirates