Following SOM’s new airport terminal in Mumbai featuring a vast concrete canopy and Grimshaw’s St Petersburg terminal comprising monumental folded ceilings, here are some of the most amazing examples of airport architecture from the pages of Dezeen.
The integration of form and structure is implicit in the earliest known definition of architecture — Vitruvius’ ideal of “firmness, commodity, and delight.” The design of Clemson University’s newest addition to their School of Architecture, Lee Hall III, is a case study in the contemporary application of this ageless idea in a space that aspires … Continued
A work of the American firm SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), the recently inaugurated Terminal 2 of Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport in Mumbai presents a sculptural concrete canopy with motifs inspired in the tradition of Indian pavilions and courtyards. Held up by thirty columns, the ensemble of cells presents pieces of glass whose colors resemble those … Continued
Called the Timber Tower Research Project, it reimagines Chicago’s 42-story Dewitt Chestnut apartment tower, which Skidmore designed in 1966, as a structure built primarily with CLT. Overall, the proposed building is about 80 percent wood with steel and concrete at the joints to provide added stiffness. So far, the study is just that: a thought … Continued
The scope and pace of China’s urbanization are staggering. The country has increased its urban population by about half a billion since 1980, and experts predict that the world’s most populous nation will add as many as 300 million people, most of them rural migrants, to its cities by 2030. As a result, a billion … Continued
San Diego will break ground next month on its most expensive public office building ever: The $555.5 million San Diego Central Courthouse. Funded from increased court fines and fees, the 704,000-square-foot building at Union and C streets downtown will replace the obsolete county courthouse that opened 53 years ago.
One of the most unique things about the new Terminal 2 (T2) at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), also known as Mumbai Airport, is that it is home to India’s largest public art programme. The art represents what the terminal is all about — a facility that reflects the spirit of India and provides a … Continued
The design and construction of any building involves problem-solving. The design of an energy-intensive lab building, however, presents its own set of unique challenges — especially when that building targets sustainability. Further, it is meant to be the centerpiece of a larger development addressing pedestrian-traffic and stormwater-mitigation issues that go beyond the scope of an … Continued
A high-rise frame’s embodied carbon is significantly higher per sq ft than a low-rise building’s, due to greater imposed loads. Thanks to Johnson, SOM is on a course to ameliorate that with mass-timber towers, which are greener than concrete, steel or masonry structures. Last May, SOM published the 72-page “Timber Tower Research Project,” initiated by Johnson. … Continued
A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled Monday to commemorate the start of construction of the new Central Courthouse for the San Diego County Superior Court. The ceremony will include remarks from California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, San Diego Presiding Judge David J. Danielsen and county Supervisor Greg Cox. Officials said the building — the largest … Continued