Manhattan’s far west side is about to become one of the busiest construction sites in the country. Last Tuesday morning, officials gathered at the corner of 9th Avenue and West 33rd Street to celebrate the second major groundbreaking in the Hudson Yards District, Brookfield Properties’ trio of new SOM-designed towers comprising the Manhattan West development … Continued
Verny Capital, a Kazakh investment management group, will invest $300 mln (224 mln) in the construction of Talan Towers.Designed by leading architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), Talan Towers will be Kazakhstan’s first environmentally sustainable building complex, meeting LEED standards, the investor said.
The Burj Dubai has officially completed as the World’s Tallest Building. After years of speculation, the building’s owner -developer, Emaar Properties, has finally revealed to the public the building’s total height, which had previously been a tightly kept secret.
As the world’s tallest building, Burj Dubai has also been the site of many construction ‘firsts’ as developer Emaar uncovers new ways of dealing with the Burj’s particular set of challenges. However, while much of the attention will be at the other extreme when the Burj Dubai finally opens on January 4, one of the … Continued
California is home to the three most imaginative and successful modern Roman Catholic cathedrals in the country. St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco (1971), designed by the Italian engineer/architect Pier Luigi Nervi, and José Rafael Moneo’s Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, which opened in Los Angeles six years ago, have now been joined … Continued
At 2 o’clock on May 31st, 2007, a Westerner in a Spiderman costume arrived at the Jin Mao Tower attracting the attention of nearly one thousand people that quickly gathered. To everyone’s astonishment, he began to climb the tower without the assistance of people or equipment.
The Atlantic Health Jets Training Center includes a two-story glass office building, three natural turf football fields, one exterior artificial turf field, and a field house with a 95-foot-high ceiling. Inside, there are medical, rehabilitation, and training rooms, including 12,000 square feet comprising a weight room, locker rooms, therapy pools, an auditorium, a classroom, coach’s … Continued
With services risers running the full 600m+ height of the building, designing MEP systems to serve the Burj Dubai has taken great care. How will the tower be serviced? Billed as the tallest building in the world, the task of providing MEP services to the Burj Dubai was always going to be a challenge. The … Continued
There are green buildings, and then there are green buildings. A sustainably built and operated skyscraper is currently rising over the skyline of New York City, and it has more eyes on it than any high-rise building in human history. Upon its completion in 2013, New York’s One World Trade Center (colloquially known as the … Continued
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and PWP Landscape Architecture shared with us their proposal for the 8 Washington development in downtown San Francisco. The plans will continue the revitalization and support enjoyment of the historically under-utilized northeast waterfront by reconnecting the City with the Bay and providing housing and community amenities which include: dynamic pedestrian … Continued