The American Conservatory Theater has been a fixture of San Francisco’s arts scene for nearly 50 years. When it decided to open a second venue in the city’s resurgent Central Market neighborhood, it chose a once-glamorous but long-derelict movie house for a new kind of community space. Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP helped A.C.T. open … Continued
The environmental graphics designed by SOM for American Conservatory Theater’s The Strand is a winner of Communication Arts magazine’s sixth annual typography competition. The project will be featured in the January/February 2016 issue of the publication, which focuses on creativity in visual communications. The Strand was one of 142 projects selected by a jury of … Continued
The SOM Graphics and Branding studio was tasked with creating the Strand’s identity—one clearly identifiable as ACT, a 50-year-old institution, but tailored to reflect the new space and its mission. Focused on new work, emerging artists, arts education, and community outreach, the Strand’s identity had to convey the unadorned immediacy of experimental theater and reflect … Continued
This week, All Aboard Florida unveiled Brightline as the brand for its future express train travel service. The 235-mile network of rail lines will connect South and Central Florida and create new urban destinations centered around the SOM-designed stations in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach. Envisioned not only as gateways to their respective cities, … Continued
San Francisco: The San Bernardino Justice Center has received the highest honor from the American Institute of Architects’ Academy of Architecture for Justice (AIA AAJ)—a 2015 Justice Facilities Review Award Citation. Dedicated on May 1, 2014, by the Chief Justice of California, Tani-Cantil-Sakauye, the new Superior Court of California for the County of San Bernardino … Continued
For demonstrating quality of form, functionality, and current architectural response to complex justice design issues, SOM’s San Bernardino Justice Center has received the highest honor from the American Institute of Architects’ Academy of Architecture for Justice (AIA AAJ): a Justice Facilities Review Award Citation. Attendees of the 2015 AIA AAJ Fall Conference, “Challenging the Status … Continued
The Northern California and Western Nevada Chapter of the American Concrete Institute has honored The Strand’s project team with a 2015 Construction Award for Architecture. The annual awards program celebrates outstanding concrete results. For the American Conservatory Theater, SOM transformed a derelict century-old cinema in San Francisco into a cultural venue by integrating architecture with … Continued
All Aboard Florida’s MiamiCentral station’s construction is ongoing, as the mammoth project speeds toward completion in mid-2017, executives told The Real Deal. During a recent private tour and meeting with All Aboard, executives unveiled construction details of the MiamiCentral station — which will have an as-yet-unnamed grocery store — and the four towers that will … Continued
On November 7, 2015, SOM Associate Director Christoph Timm will join an invited group of international experts to discuss fire safety challenges and opportunities in Mumbai, India. Timm will speak about SOM’s work developing curtain wall fire safety standards in New York City, comparing this to the firm’s recent experiences working in India. Organized by the … Continued
Prospects were bright for San Francisco’s Strand Theater when it opened in 1917. First a silent film cinema, it went on to screen talkies for decades. But it eventually went to seed, showing porn movies. A vice squad raid shuttered the Strand in 2003. Years of decay and squatters followed. With the neighborhood now revitalizing, … Continued