Ten years ago, Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport welcomed six million passengers per year through its gates; today it serves nearly five times that number. With the city’s emergence as India’s financial capital and the country’s rapidly expanding and economically mobile middle class, the existing airport infrastructure proved unable to support the growing volume of … Continued
Faceted concrete staircases connect a string of social spaces inside this SOM-designed campus building for The New School in New York, visible outside the building through huge diagonal windows. The University Center was designed by architecture firm SOM to provide 35,000 square metres of teaching facilities and student housing for The New School, allowing the … Continued
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport’s new Terminal 2 boasts distinctly Indian architecture from renowned US firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The 410,000 square-metre facility combines international and domestic operations and is built on a cross-shaped axis, ensuring the least amount of distance between the central podium (the ‘headhouse’) and the four-storeys of check-in points, shops, baggage … Continued
No matter if they are sustainable, intelligent or smart, skyscrapers represent, for the green construction industry and smart cities, the challenge of the future. A challenge taken up by the Pertamina Energy Tower in Jakarta (Indonesia): once completed in 2020, it will be the first self-sufficient skyscraper ever built in the world and it will … Continued
Godrej Garden City, designed by SOM, is one of 16 projects chosen for a new global program developed by the Clinton Climate Initiative and the U.S. Green Building Council. Called the Climate Positive Development Program, the initiative will support the development of highly sustainable, large-scale urban projects around the world. The chosen projects will strive … Continued
The University Center, The New School Campus designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP has recently opened in New York. The school, which was founded almost 100 years ago in 1919, had outgrown its original Greenwich village home in terms of both classroom space and accommodation for the over 10,000 students now enrolled there. SOM’s … Continued
It’s not finished, but we can give you a look inside. New York Magazine’s architecture critic, Justin Davidson, walks you through the nearly completed 1 World Trade Center (formerly the Freedom Tower) and the massive transportation hub that is slated to exist next to it. Check out Justin’s article reviewing the building here. Source: New … Continued
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has completed the new terminal building of Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, designed to deal with the city’s great influx of visitors. Developed to accommodate 40 million annual travelers, the complex combines international and domestic passenger services beneath one encompassing roof canopy, reducing customer walking distance and optimizing logistical operations … Continued
Kia Motors may be South Korea’s oldest car company — it was established in 1944 as a manufacturer of bicycle parts — but traditional thinking is not what makes it an industry leader. The company’s Research and Development Headquarters in Irvine, California, designed by the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), proves Kia’s … Continued
The unveiling of Mumbai’s swanky new Terminal 2 (T2) at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) has given the city a new landmark to be proud of and marks the transition of airport construction to a new era. The aim was to create one of the world’s best airports, and today, the gigantic glass structure — … Continued