On April 25, 2015, 15 staffers from SOM’s Chicago office donated their time and skill to National Rebuilding Day. The SOM team joined a total of 3,500 Chicagoans, who rolled up their sleeves to make major improvements to 82 homes, four nonprofit facilities, and one outdoor space across the city. SOM volunteers upgraded a home … Continued
At 290m tall, the Tanjong Pagar Centre will have the tallest building in Singapore when it is completed in the middle of next year Ms Engelhart likens designing the building to putting together a Swiss watch.
On April 30, 2015, Jason Chen, senior digital design professional at SOM, will present at the BIMForum Conference in San Diego, California. Chen’s talk, titled “Augmented Deliverables,” will explore how BIM drawings and data can supplement and enhance the traditional drawing set. Using BIM, architects and engineers can produce the standard suite of plans, sections, … Continued
The AIA announced the winners of the 2015 COTE Top Ten Green Projects today. Every year for the last 19 years, the AIA and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) choose projects for their exemplary sustainable architecture and ecological design.
Built in the middle of the New School campus at 14th Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan, this new university building has classrooms and design studios on the first seven floors and dorm space for 600 students at the top. As one unique feature in its quest to meet LEED gold standards, the building stores … Continued
New York City can sometimes afford its residents little time to stand back and admire the places where they work, live and play. The folks over at Architizer, however, are paying close attention to some of the city’s hottest new projects Commercial properties like 837 Washington Street, which is home to electronics giant Samsung, and … Continued
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is one of the architecture world’s most recognizable names as the Chicago-based outfit has been designing some of the world’s tallest towers for decades. And while SOM continues to work on massive towers in China and the Persian Gulf, it’s important to note that Chicago has the biggest collection of SOM-designed … Continued
These skyscrapers are solitary creatures, and it isn’t always clear to much of the public that a few architectural firms are the teams tasked with bringing our skyline to life. One of the more recognizable groups, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, have been designing a dizzying array of towering towers for a long time and to … Continued
Melissa Johnston of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill created a series of reflective stands inspired by the description of Crown Hall as a reductive building, “almost nothing.” The ethereal, mirrored showroom made the chrome chair legs seem to float. “By revealing what’s underneath the chairs,” she says, “it increases the drama of the shape.”
The Building Trades Employers’ Association (BTEA) held a special panel discussion with industry experts on the planned development and construction of New York City’s largest airports. Held in the officers of Herrick, Feinstein LLP, the event attracted over 60 members and industry stakeholders. Speakers included Angelo Genova, partner at Genova Burns and Former Commissioner at the … Continued