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Brian Lee Joins Illinois Institute of Technology for a Conversation on Netsch Home and Preserving Midwestern Modernism

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Join SOM and Wheeler Kearns Architects with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture PhD Program for “Preserving Midwestern Modernism: A Conversation on the Legacies of Chicago’s Netsch and Graham Homes.” Michelangelo Sabatino, IIT Professor and co-author of Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75, will moderate a discussion between SOM Consulting Partner … Continued

National Museum of the U.S. Army Wins AIANY Architecture Merit Award

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The National Museum of the United States Army has received a merit award in the 2021 AIA New York Chapter Design Awards. The award program recognizes outstanding design by AIA New York members. The building—designed to serve as the symbolic front door to the oldest branch of the U.S. military—was honored in the architecture category, … Continued

Moynihan Train Hall, Monumental Civic Project That Restores Grandeur Of Train Travel In New York, Opens January 1

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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill are celebrating the completion of a long-held New York dream. The new Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall, named for the visionary United States senator who proposed the project in the 1990s, will open its doors on January 1 to New Yorkers and travelers from the Long Island … Continued

Applications Now Open: SOM Foundation 2021 Structural Engineering

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The SOM Foundation has issued a call for submissions for its Structural Engineering Fellowship, awarded annually to a graduating student of structural engineering. The $20,000 prize supports independent travel and research that has the potential to influence practice and teaching, with a focus on how structures can make a positive impact on the built environment. … Continued

Preetam Biswas Leads Committee for Newly Published ASCE-SEI Manual of Practice

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The Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE-SEI) has released a new Manual of Practice, titled Design and Performance of Tall Buildings for Wind. As an industry reference, the publication aims to promote standards and best practices in the design of tall buildings specific to wind effects. Preetam Biswas, SOM Director … Continued

Adam Semel and Brian Lee Named Tribune’s Chicagoans of the Year in Architecture

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The rebirth of old Cook County Hospital, which once had a near-death experience, would have been worth celebrating in any year. But it took on special meaning in 2020, as doctors, nurses and other health care workers battled the deadly coronavirus. Beautifully remade as a mixed-use building with two Hyatt hotels, a food hall, a … Continued

800 Fulton Among Chicago Tribune’s Top 10 Projects to Watch in 2021

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An architecturally ambitious addition to the Fulton Market district — 800 Fulton, a 19-story office building with a stepped profile and exposed steel cross-braces — will open in the spring. The building’s setbacks are designed to relate to the low-rise scale of the district and to provide landscaped outdoor terraces. The architects are Skidmore, Owings … Continued

Kenneth A. Lewis and Kristopher Takacs Assume Presidencies of AIA New York and AIA DC for 2021

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On January 1, 2021, SOM Managing Partner Kenneth A Lewis, AIA, and SOM Director Kristopher Takacs, AIA, began new roles as the presidents of their local AIA chapters. Lewis is the President of AIA New York, the largest local chapter in the country, and Takacs has assumed the same role for AIA Washington, D.C. In these … Continued

Nebula Lighting Collection Wins an Interior Design Best of Year Award

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The Nebula Lighting Collection—a modern, outdoor lighting system designed in collaboration with Italian lighting manufacturer Neri—has been honored by Interior Design Magazine with a 2020 Best of Year Award in the “Outdoor Lighting” category. The award was presented during this year’s virtual ceremony, hosted by Interior Design editor-in-chief Cindy Allen. SOM and Neri designed the … Continued

SOM Designs a New Dining Hall at UC Merced

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In the middle of the farming community around Merced, Calif., the University of California, Merced has been blooming, and at its center is the Pavilion, a dining hall that serves as the campus hub in the way that grange halls used to serve agricultural communities through a shared social, economic and political vision. Designed by … Continued