On Saturday, September 26th, 2015, staff from SOM’s Washington, D.C. office joined with hundreds of other volunteers from the local design and construction industry to turn a vacant lot into a home for the East Capitol Urban Farm in Ward 7. In what will be D.C.’s largest-scale urban farm, the project will serve as a … Continued
The Urban Land Institute named SOM’s Denver Union Station as a winner of its 2015 Global Awards for Excellence. The annual program recognizes projects worldwide that achieve a high standard in design, construction, economics, planning, and management. The jury announced the ten winners at ULI’s 2015 Fall Meeting on October 6, 2015. Denver’s historic Union … Continued
Resembling a futuristic hunting cabin of sorts (SOM really plays up the off-grid wilderness scenarios in its renderings), the AMIE abode, with its ribbed aerodynamic profile and rooftop photovoltaics, also wouldn’t look out of place amongst some of the more avant-garde entries at the Department of Energy’s U.S. Solar Decathlon. Assembled by Tennessee-headquartered manufactured home … Continued
For a festival of architecture in a city synonymous with tall buildings, it seems fitting that skyscraper aficionados Skidmore Owings and Merrill play a significant part. Along with 19 local architecture firms and artists, SOM presents big ideas to improve Chicago featuring an extraordinary array of proposals from filling 15,000 empty lots with communal kitchens … Continued
SOM and CAMESgibson will present a new collaborative project, The High Life, at the exhibition BOLD: Alternative Scenarios for Chicago. Organized by Iker Gil of MAS Studio as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, BOLD opens on Saturday, October 3rd at the Chicago Cultural Center. The High Life project proposes novel domestic arrangements made possible … Continued
After two years of covering news related to the 3D printing industry, it’s very seldom that I get overly excited about a particular story or a project. With that said, after a thirty minute conversation with Roderick Jackson, Head of Building Envelope Systems Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), I came away thoroughly excited … Continued
Rudin Management Company has completed construction of the redesigned lobby and public areas of its distinctive 22-story office building at 560 Lexington Avenue, including its recently reopened subway entrance. The multi-million dollar project, which commenced in 2014, marks yet another important milestone in the revitalization of the East Midtown business district. The Rudins commissioned world-renowned architectural … Continued
The true benefits that 3D printing will be bring to the automotive world or to the field of construction remain to be seen. And, as Oak Ridge National Laboratory today unveils their first experiments in the Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy (AMIE) project, team leader Roderick Jackson knows that this is only the beginning. To do … Continued
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has unveiled a 3D-printed building at the DOE’s inaugural Industry Day event on Wednesday. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the 38x12x13-ft Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy (AMIE) building can be used for off-the-grid shelter. A photovoltaics roof works with a natural gas generator to provide lighting … Continued
World-renowned architecture firm SOM just unveiled an off-grid 3D-printed building with built-in solar panels that can be powered, in part, by a car. The highly energy-efficient structure is called AMIE, and it makes getting mainstream society off the grid seem ever more feasible. The building is comprised of a series of printed C-shaped sections, and … Continued