Two SOM projects have been selected for the 2015 MIPIM Asia Awards, which recognizes innovation and excellence in real estate development. This year’s winners include the Tianjin CTF Finance Centre in the Best Chinese Future Mega Project category, and Ayala Triangle Gardens—North in the Best Futura Mega Project category. A voting period open to the … Continued
SOM Senior Digital Design Manager Robert Yori and SOM Senior Digital Design Professional Jason Chen will lead workshops at the third annual Revit Technology Conference Europe. Taking place in Budapest from October 29 to 31, 2015, the event brings together industry experts to share insights on using Revit and related Building Information Modeling (BIM) software … Continued
The University of Connecticut broke ground for its new Technology Park Wednesday, marking a new era of public-private research partnership at UConn that is intended to drive Connecticut innovation and competitiveness in the state, region, and beyond. State lawmakers and representatives from some of Connecticut’s leading industries were on hand to celebrate the new Tech … Continued
Class is now in session at P.S. 62, New York City’s first net-zero energy school, located in the Rossville section of Staten Island. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) for the NYC School Construction Authority (SCA), the 68,000-square-foot, two-story elementary school serves approximately 440 students. The building will harvest as much energy from renewable … Continued
Tall, elegant, strong, something that you simply can’t ignore, present in all the greatest cities of the world, a skyscraper isn’t just a big building. It defies the sky and makes us feel small compared with their grandiosity, but at the same time makes us think: were capable of built something so extraordinary that touches … Continued
This pocket-sized book is the debut volume of the SOM Thinkers series, produced by venerable architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. In these pages, the top minds in urbanism – novelists Bruce Sterling and Will Self, Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan and political journalist Emily Badger among them – offer their … Continued
Engineering-News Record California has recognized The Strand in its Best Projects 2015 awards program. Designed by SOM, the project won an Award of Merit in the Renovation/Restoration category of the regional awards, which were selected by juries made up of prominent local industry professionals. Winners will be recognized at a breakfast event on December 3rd, 2015, … Continued
On Saturday, October 17th, SOM’s Chicago office opened its doors to the public for Open House Chicago, an annual festival organized by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. With a record number of visitors this year to SOM’s office in the Loop, more than 1,800 people came throughout the day to tour the studio and learn about … Continued
In computational design, the architect generates solutions to a particular problem by first defining a set of rules and criteria for the model. Though the many tools Katz uses during this process include intangibles like “a desire to explore as many valid options as possible” and his office’s collaborative environment, in many instances he also … Continued
On October 10, 2015, architects, engineers, and elementary school students gathered at Ocean Beach in San Francisco to face off in the 32nd Annual Sandcastle Contest, organized by the nonprofit Leap Arts in Education. SOM once again teamed up with the Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program at Clarendon Elementary School, helping fourth and fifth grade students … Continued