Of all the good things possible from the nearly completed renovation of the Union Station site none hold more promise than the prospect that it will unite the two most exciting parts of Denver: downtown and Highland. That it will invite passage and make the journey from here to there, from the urban hardscape to the … Continued
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has honored Cayan Tower with the 2014 Best Tall Building award in the Middle East & Africa regional category. It will compete for the title of Best Tall Building Worldwide at the CTBUH 13th Annual Awards Symposium on November 6. The supertall tower – with its striking … Continued
The London office of SOM and Copenhagen-based firm Entasis — who collaborated with COWI in Denmark and Sweden — was just announced as having the winning design for the Polestar Tower in Gothenburg, Sweden. Once built, the 230 m. tower will reportedly be Scandinavia’s tallest tower.
SOM’s Zuellig Building, an elegant office tower located in Manila, Philippines, has been named a finalist in the Global Awards for Excellence competition, organized by the Urban Land Institute (ULI). This annual awards program recognizes projects that achieve a high standard of excellence in design, construction, economics, planning, and management. From the 23 finalists, a jury … Continued
When passengers begin arriving in downtown Miami on intercity trains, in 2016, All Aboard Florida plans to have transformed this neighborhood. There will be a colossal station complex designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill that includes a half-dozen towers, over a million square feet of office space, 1,111 residential units, a hotel, car rental outlets, … Continued
A 530 m tall skyscraper in Jakarta, Indonesia, will be the world’s first “supertall” tower—defined by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats in Chicago as those more than 300 m tall—to feature sustainability as its primary design driver. Intended to be a net-zero-energy building, the tower will boast a host of energy-saving and … Continued
Architect Donald C. Smith, former partner at SOM, died on May 30, 2014, at his home in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was 84 years old. Smith began working at SOM as a draftsman after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters of Architecture in 1961. Rising quickly within the New York office, … Continued
At noon on June 20, SOM offices worldwide will participate in Green Light New York’s “Daylight Hour.” For a single hour, the lights in daylit spaces within SOM’s offices will be turned off to draw attention to driving down the use of electric lighting. The event is timed to coincide with peak energy demand time: … Continued
In the intense dialogue surrounding security at the new World Trade Center site, the fact that One World Trade Center will be one of the greenest super-tall buildings in the United States is often overlooked. The where and how of protecting this 104-story building, which stretches to 1,776 feet with its spire antenna, has been … Continued
Denver’s Union Station, a multi-modal transit hub built by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, opened up last month. The ribbon cutting ceremony severed the notion that transportation hubs are drab, gray places that smell suspiciously of food products and cleaning chemicals. What does the Union Station Bus Concourse do differently? Everything, apparently. Its sweeping … Continued