Two SOM projects—Samsung Research America Silicon Valley Campus Interiors (#74) and The Strand, American Conservatory Theater (#75)—are competing for the People’s Choice Award as part of the the 12th Annual IIDA Northern California Chapter Honor Awards. The public voting period remains open on IIDA’s website through March 21, 2016. Open to design firms of all sizes, … Continued
Lonny Israel, SOM Associate Director of Branding, Identity, and Graphic Design, has been selected by the Society for Experiential Graphic Design to serve on the jury of its 2016 SEGD Global Design Awards. Since 1987, the awards program has honored experiential graphic design work that connects people to place by providing direction, content, and compelling … Continued
Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), 350 Mission has been awarded LEED® Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is an internationally recognized mark of excellence that provides building owners and operators with a framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations, … Continued
SOM’s design for P.S. 62 The Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability at Sandy Ground has won the 2016 MASterworks Award for Best New Infrastructure. The Kathleen Grimm School is the first school to be honored in the program’s infrastructure category. Hosted annually by the Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS), the MASterworks … Continued
One of the lower-profile skyscrapers rising on 57th Street in Midtown is quickly taking shape. Photos byNyConstructionPhoto have revealed that almost all of the facade work for the SOM-designed tower at 252 East 57th is complete. … There are a total of 93 condos in the undulating building at 252 East 57th Street, many of which … Continued
Architects, citizens and New Yorkers rejoiced several weeks ago when Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans to revamp the perpetually infuriating confusion that is Penn Station…. However, the public railway station at the heart of a city does not have to be a dehumanizing experience for all those involved, as other prime examples of this critically essential … Continued
None of the roughly 640,000 commuters who scuttle—or, at rush hour, shuffle—through Penn Station every day can doubt that it needs, um, improvements…. But sorting through the various, plans, counterplans, and multibillion-dollar options has become as disorienting as navigating the station itself. Here, then, is the reasonably well-informed New Yorker’s guide to what Penn Station actually … Continued
On Monday, February 29th, Patricia Yeh, SOM Senior Manager in the San Francisco office will join a panel discussion on the potential business implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Recently signed by the U.S. and 11 other countries in the Pacific Rim, the TPP is a trade agreement that is expected to boost U.S. economic growth through the elimination of trade … Continued
It is the kind of cold that burns the skin. But on a Tuesday morning in January, it’s bright and warm in the new branch library in Chicago’s Chinatown. Out the slim vertical windows, subway trains rush by on elevated tracks. Looking north, there is the illusion that the looming Willis Tower is close enough … Continued
What happens when you remove all the constraints of today’s traditional building practices? You get AMIE. AMIE, or the Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy project, is one of the world’s first 3D printed houses. But it’s not just a house. It’s also a vehicle. It’s also solar panels, and energy storage, and intelligent controls. It’s an entire integrated … Continued