The excerpt below has been translated from German. . . . A little more green would be good for cities – not just those in Austria. At least that’s what the US architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) thinks. National Geographic had SOM draw a picture of the city of the future last year. … Continued
On Wednesday, September 23rd, SOM Director Luke Leung will speak as a panelist in “New Approaches to Air And Water.” The event is part of the Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability Symposium. Hosted by Metropolis magazine, the symposium will feature discussions with architecture and design professionals about sustainable building, manufacturing, products, materials, technologies, and tools. In “New … Continued
The SOM Foundation has launched a new award to support Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) who are currently undergraduate students enrolled in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, or structural engineering programs in the United States. Three recipients will each receive a $10,000 award to assist in their academic development. The award is named in … Continued
Tianjin CTF Finance Centre has been named Construction Project of the Year and Best BIM Application of the Year in the RICS China Awards 2020. The team behind the project, a 530-meter-tall mixed-use tower in China’s Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA), received the award for Excellence in Professional Consultancy Service Team of the Year. The annual … Continued
In an episode of Create the Future: An Engineering Podcast, Consulting Partner Bill Baker talks with host Sue Nelson. Baker reflects on his career at SOM, his experiences engineering the Burj Khalifa and other innovative structures around the world, and shares advice for young engineers entering the field. Hosted by the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, … Continued
Supporters of a new KCI are ecstatic that voters overwhelming approved the new airport Tuesday. It was arguably the biggest topic of debate in Kansas City leading up to the election. The city said the terminals at KCI must go, but some said demolition was not the answer. With 49,950 votes to 16,378, voters made … Continued
Kansas City voters have overwhelmingly approved the plan to overhaul the Kansas City International Airport (KCI). The $1 billion project, led by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), will see the demolition of three terminals and the consolidation of all operations into one volume. SOM’s design will aim to maintain the original structure’s zealous connection to … Continued
Kansas City Mayor Sly James will be on hand Monday to celebrate the symbolic destruction of an unloved landmark: his city’s nearly five-decade-old airport, whose brutalist-style, poured-concrete terminals make it appear like a relic of a bygone age. The $1.5 billion, four-year renovation is the largest public works project ever in Missouri’s biggest city and … Continued
Kansas City is “no longer an understudy to anybody,” Mayor Sly James told hundreds of community, civic, political and business leaders who gathered Monday to celebrate a groundbreaking for the new $1.5 billion single terminal under construction at Kansas City International Airport. . . . Now it’s “Wheels up, Kansas City,” said Mitch Holthus, voice … Continued
On Monday, March 25th, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) joined the Kansas City Aviation Department, the City of Kansas City, Missouri and officials from around the region, major airlines, developer Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate, design-builder Clark | Weitz | Clarkson (CWC), and organized labor and business representatives to break ground on the Kansas … Continued