AIA Hong Kong has announced that two SOM projects in Asia will receive Honor Awards. The prestigious awards program recognizes exemplary architecture and design achievements that improve the built environment. The U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou, China, won in the Architecture category, while the Tianqiao Performing Arts District Master Plan in Beijing won in the … Continued
All Aboard Florida is set to begin construction today on its new 60,000-square-foot station in downtown West Palm Beach. The private-rail company will hold a groundbreaking ceremony at 9 a.m. for the $29 million train station planned between Datura and Evernia streets along the Florida East Coast Railway tracks.
On November 18, 2014, Joan Suchomel, SOM Director and Senior Medical Planner, will present two sessions at the Healthcare Design Conference in San Diego. The conference producers, The Center for Health Design and Healthcare Design Magazine, describe the conference as “the premier event devoted to how the design of responsibly built environments directly impacts the … Continued
Joan Suchomel, SOM Director, will speak at the 2014 Health Facility Planning, Design, and Construction (PDC) Summit, which will be held from March 16 – 19 in Orlando, Florida. The annual conference is presented by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering and other organizations and is among the largest healthcare design conferences in the world. … Continued
With its recent groundbreaking, construction on the UI Labs Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) has officially begun. The SOM-designed DMDII, located on Chicago’s Goose Island, will be home to the city’s most state-of-the-art digital manufacturing hub. The 94,000 square-foot building is organized around themes of openness, transparency, and industrial might, linking together a … Continued
University officials and the architectural, design, and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) have almost completed the draft Master Plan 2014, a comprehensive planning document that will help shape the physical development of UConn’s flagship campus for the next 20 years. The plan is intended to help guide UConn’s capital investments and ensure that … Continued
the first offices have opened for use in the landmark one world trade center tower, designed by architecture office skidmore, owings & merrill. while reaching a height of 1,776 feet at its spire’s peak, the high rise contains 104 stories, of which floors 20 through 44 are now occupied as the headquarters of media and … Continued
To celebrate the opening of One World Trade Center, building architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill are hosting a contest in which amateur and professional photographers are welcome to submit their photographs of the tower through Instagram or email. At stake, a one-off scale model of the tower handcrafted by the firm’s model shop as well … Continued
An old strip center coincidentally named “Broward Station” was knocked down Wednesday, marking the start of construction of what will become a sleek new downtown Fort Lauderdale station for All Aboard Florida It’s the first groundbreaking for one of All Aboard Florida’s three stations planned in South Florida. Work on stations in downtown West Palm … Continued
The design of One World Trade was both practical and symbolic, “like the Washington Monument, a real marker for downtown but a very distinctive building, like a lighthouse would be at the end of an island,” said the building’s architect, David Childs, a consulting design partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.