American architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has unveiled a 3D-printed house that allows inhabitants to live anywhere that can be reached with a four-wheel drive. The Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy (AMIE) demonstration project is a “research and design” collaboration between SOM and the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The project hopes … Continued
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill—the architecture firm behind One World Trade Center—recently unveiled new images of Manhattan West, a five-million-square-foot project rising in New York’s Hudson Yards district. Commissioned by Brookfield Property Partners, the $4.5 billion development encompasses a trio of glass structures including a residential skyscraper and two office buildings, plus a two-acre outdoor plaza … Continued
Architekturgalerie München presents the internationally practicing US-based office in its first European exhibition. The exhibition and the accompanying DETAIL volume present the approaches, the roots and the theoretical background of the SOM Structural Group. One central question is how far architecture can go – in terms of height. With its 80 years of experience in … Continued
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, headquartered in Roane County, Tennessee, is a government agency and lab operating under the U.S. Department of Energy. … Seeing themselves as bringing the construction world into the 21st century, the ORNL team partnered with both Clayton Homes and US architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) a couple of years ago, and we’ve been following … Continued
Making businesses and homes more energy efficient is a win for jobs and economic growth, operating costs and bottom lines, and the President’s commitment to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change. … The program’s mission is to partner with the Energy Department to improve energy efficiency 20 percent by 2020, and share successful strategies … Continued
Architecture firm SOM has completed the first public school in New York City that generates as much energy on site as it consumes. Called the Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability, the 444 seat, 68,000-square-foot (6,317-square-metres) primary school is located on Staten Island, the least populated of New York City’s five boroughs.
Planning for a bullet train station at F Street and Golden State Highway is just beginning, members of a Bakersfield City Council committee learned Tuesday, but the results should have considerable relevance for the surrounding area…? The Bakersfield City Council voted 6-0 in December to hire urban planning and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill … Continued
William F. Baker, SOM Partner in Charge of Structural and Civil Engineering, speaks about the structural engineering of the Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest free-standing structure.
Continuing its longstanding role involving the renovations of New York City’s James A. Farley Post Office, locally-based firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) released renderings of its updated plans turn the 1913 Neoclassical building into a modern train hall. Sitting adjacent from Pennsylvania (Penn) Station, along Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, the new developments to the … Continued
New York-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has released renderings of a revised plan to renovate the James A. Farley Post Office into a train station, as part of the larger redevelopment of the Penn Station complex. The new Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall will convert McKim, Mead & White’s Beaux-Arts edifice from 1913 into … Continued