On Monday, March 16th, Design Director Yasemin Kologlu will speak at the fourth annual EQUINOX: UN SDGs symposium at Kennesaw State University. The event focuses on the 17 interconnected United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to catalyze multidisciplinary partnership and scholarship on sustainability. This year’s theme centers on the intersections of good health and well-being, and … Continued
. . . The new home for Disney, which owns ABC and other networks, is taking shape across an entire city block bound by Hudson, Spring, Varick and Vandam Streets. Known (for now) as 4 Hudson Square, the 19-story, 1.2-million-square-foot complex office and studio space was designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill. Most of the … Continued
Over the years following World War II, in which Skidmore, Owings & Merrill rose to prominence, its architecture was largely identified with an astute deployment of steel, concrete, and glass using a Miesian vocabulary. Now the firm is showing it can exercise the same finesse with timber as the structural solution. This natural material composes 80 percent … Continued
On March 3rd and 4th, several representatives from SOM’s New York office will participate in the New York Build 2020 Expo. Held at the Javits Center in Manhattan, the two-day event will feature panel discussions, workshops, and other sessions focused on contemporary issues in the construction industry. On Tuesday, March 3rd, Director of Structural Engineering … Continued
SOM and Barnard College are set to compete in the international Learn by Design competition at the SXSW EDU Conference & Festival. The Milstein Center—the new, interdisciplinary, and multimodal library at Barnard College—has been selected as one of five finalists in this year’s competition, which recognizes the cutting-edge in education design. On Tuesday, March 10th, Design Partner Colin … Continued
It’s no secret that the design profession has a persistent diversity gap: African American architects today represent only about two percent of licensed architects in America, according to the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA). What’s more, the contributions of these designers are not often widely recognized. Throughout February, a group of our designers active … Continued
In 1974, architect Walter Netsch, a design partner at Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), completed his own home on a corner in Chicago’s Old Town. The simple exterior form—a brick box with a triangular protrusion—conceals a complex, multilevel interior informed by an approach Netsch called “field theory.”
On Thursday, February 27th, Associate Director Georgi Petrov and senior architectural designer Daniel Inocente will lead a graduate seminar at the Department of Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In a presentation titled “Architecture in the Age of a New Frontier,” Petrov and Inocente will discuss how endeavors in space architecture could lead … Continued
On Thursday, February 27th, SOM will host a panel discussion on the future of transportation in the Bay Area and what can be learned from cities around the world. The topic is inspired by the release of The Future of Transportation, our third volume in the SOM Thinkers series. The event will bring together several leading voices to … Continued
NASA has named Northwestern University and SOM as one of the five leading teams in the latest phase of the 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge competition. Launched in 2014, the competition invited 18 research teams from around the world to design autonomously constructed habitats that have the potential to support human life on Mars and the Moon. Along … Continued