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SOM designs tapering skyscraper that would dwarf neighbouring Cheesegrater
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed visuals for a 56-storey skyscraper in the City of London, featuring a slanting glass facade that resembles the Rogers Stirk Harbour-designed Cheesegrater...
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SOM's modernist Park Avenue skyscraper faces demolition
A 1960s Midtown Manhattan skyscraper by architecture firm SOM will become the largest building ever to be deliberately destroyed, when it is knocked down in favour of a new tower that will soar 150...
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Paris garden skyscraper by SOM will be "one of the most sustainable buildings...
Skidmore Owings and Merrill has proposed a 180-metre skyscraper in Paris that is designed to be zero-energy, and accessible via a garden bridge leading from the River Seine. The international...
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SOM unveils office tower with luxury amenities for Chicago
Architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill has revealed an 18-storey office block planned for Chicago, including a terrace that overlooks the city's trendy West Loop neighbourhood. SOM's The Porch...
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SOM converts century-old Chicago firehouse into Optimo hat factory
Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has paired blackened steel with warm-toned wood at a new headquarters for hat maker Optimo, created inside a historic firehouse in Chicago. The offices...
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Pair of skyscrapers proposed for site of Calatrava's doomed Chicago Spire
Two "sister skyscrapers" designed by architect David Childs have been unveiled for Chicago's waterfront, nearly 10 years after work on Santiago Calatrava's ill-fated Chicago Spire halted on the same...
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SOM-designed Diamond tower gets approved for London
The 56-storey London skyscraper designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill will feature public viewing galleries at its topmost levels. Called The Diamond, the 248.2-metre-high tapered tower will be...
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SOM wraps Downtown LA courthouse in pleats of glass
Global firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has designed and engineered a federal courthouse for a sloped site in Downtown Los Angeles, which appears as an elevated cube with folded glass facades....
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SOM's "sister skyscrapers" for doomed Chicago Spire site halted
The controversy surrounding the site of Santiago Calatrava's ill-fated Chicago Spire continues, as the city stalls the pair of skyscrapers that SOM's David Childs has proposed for the vacant waterfront...
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Foster, Calatrava and SOM on shortlist for new Chicago O'Hare airport terminal
Five teams of architects are in the running to redesign Chicago's O'Hare international airport, with Foster + Partners and Santiago Calatrava among the list of firms participating in the competition....
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SOM transforms ageing brick buildings into Chicago's West Loop Branch library
Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has converted buildings in a former industrial district into a public library in Chicago, where original brick walls and bow trusses are on full...
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SOM breaks ground on Alárò City in Nigeria
Construction has begun on Alárò City, which is being masterplanned by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, as an extension to Lagos in southwest Nigeria. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) for...
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Burj Jumeira supertall skyscraper will rise from fingerprint of Dubai's ruler
Visuals have been released of the SOM-designed Burj Jumeira, a 550-metre-tall split-volume skyscraper in Dubai that will rise from a lake shaped like the fingerprint of the emirate's ruler. Unveiled...
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SOM unveils plans for Chicago's Lincoln Yards neighbourhood
Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to transform a former industrial site in Chicago into a "new urban destination". Called Lincoln Yards, the development will transform...
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SOM designs inflatable Moon Village to be first-ever lunar habitat
Architect firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has unveiled a proposal for a permanent community on the moon, comprising inflating pods that balloon up to accommodate more inhabitants as the population...
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SOM completes Tenaya Towers in massive student housing project at California...
Board-marked concrete, cement plaster and glass form the facades of two student dormitories that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has created for an expansive housing development at the University of...
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SOM completes double-cantilevered Manhattan Loft Gardens tower
Manhattan Loft Gardens is a 143-metre-high tower with two cantilevers designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill that overlooks London's 2012 Olympic Games park. Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)...
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SOM designs concourse terminals for Studio ORD's Chicago O'Hare airport
American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has been selected to design a pair of concourse terminals as part of the major Chicago O'Hare Airport expansion. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) will...
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SOM reveals images of stainless steel US Army museum in Virginia
SOM has released exterior and interior building photos of the National Museum of the United States Army, which is nearing completion in Virginia. The stainless steel-clad museum has been designed by...
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"The rapid deterioration of Earth's biodiversity could be reversed equally...
Architects must act quickly and cooperatively to change cities and make their environmental good intentions reality, says Doug Voigt, urban design and planning partner at SOM. As the alarm bells have...
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SOM uses robotic technology to construct concrete Stereoform Slab for 2019...
Two concrete columns hold up a curving concrete roof of this pavilion that architecture firm SOM has built using a method it says could reduce the carbon footprint of high-rise concrete buildings....
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SOM designs Buenos Aires office building with "urban window" to waterfront
SOM has revealed its design for a new office complex on the waterfront in Buenos Aires, which will comprise two towers joined by bridges topped with green terraces. One of the glazed towers that make...
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SOM to create Disney headquarters in New York City clad in green terracotta...
Skidmore Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to build a glass-and-ceramic office building for Disney's New York operations, called 4 Hudson Square. New York architecture firm Skidmore Owings &...
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David Childs redesigns halted towers for Chicago Spire site
SOM's David Childs has updated the design of a pair of towers proposed to occupy the site of Santiago Calatrava's Chicago Spire. The amended plans come over a year after Chicago Alderman Brendan Reilly...
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SOM unveils modular School/House classrooms in response to coronavirus
American architecture studio SOM has created a design for a ventilated, high-ceilinged, modular classroom for schools that need temporary accommodation. Named School/House, the pop-up classrooms were...
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SOM's National Museum of the United States Army opens in Virginia
Monolithic volumes clad in stainless steel reflect the trees surrounding the National Museum of the United States Army, which architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed in Virginia....
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SOM "evokes the majesty of the original Penn Station" with Daniel Patrick...
Architecture studio SOM has converted the Beaux-Arts James A Farley Post Office in New York into the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall as part of the renovation of Penn Station. Standing opposite...
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SOM to build supertall skyscraper on site of Trump's Grand Hyatt New York
Architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill has unveiled plans to build an 83-storey supertall skyscraper on the site of Donald Trump's old Grand Hyatt hotel in New York. Called 175 Park Avenue, the...
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SOM and Phillip K Smith III install light-up mirrored sculpture in Santa Monica
Global design firm Skidmore Owings and Merril collaborated with American artist Phillip K Smith III to create Santa Monica Linear, a mirrored glass installation that lights up at night. Santa Monica...
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SOM reveals plan to add curving glass canopy to Chicago metro station
Global architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merril has unveiled its redesign for the State/Lake Station in downtown Chicago. Skidmore, Owings and Merril (SOM) is working with construction engineers...
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SOM's inflatable habitats could allow people to "thrive over the long term"...
Architecture studio SOM and the European Space Agency have created more visuals for Moon Village, a concept for a settlement on the moon made up of inflatable modules. SOM presented a detailed scale...
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SOM to design athletes' village in Porta Romana for the 2026 Milano Cortina...
Architecture firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill has been chosen to design a mass-timber Olympic Village with "minimal environmental impact" for the 2026 winter Olympics hosted by Milan and Cortina...
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SOM weaves small wood pieces into SPLAM pavilion at Chicago Architecture...
SOM has worked with the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning to explore a low-carbon alternative to conventional timber framing called SLT and build a pavilion to...
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SOM designs UAE diplomacy building with Middle Eastern motifs in Manhattan
Architecture firm SOM has designed a limestone-clad building patterned with symbolic palm leaves for the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations in Manhattan. The building...
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SOM unveils "breathing" Shenzhen bank tower enclosed in diagrid
Architecture firm SOM has completed its headquarters for Shenzhen's Rural Commercial Bank, a naturally ventilated steel-wrapped office building with an exterior that resembles an exoskeleton. Located...
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SOM designs Fort Lauderdale Federal Courthouse informed by classical...
Architecture practice Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has received approval for a new 10-storey federal courthouse with a fluted metal and glass exterior in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Recently...
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SOM unveils plans for 1950s Lever House renovation in New York
Architecture firm SOM is renovating the 1950s Lever House skyscraper that it designed in New York in an effort to preserve the modernist office building's "very important legacy". SOM's aim for the...
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SOM and Burckhardt+Partner create mass-timber office for UN on Lake Geneva
Architecture studios Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Burckhardt+Partner have unveiled a hybrid mass-timber and concrete office block on the United Nations campus in Geneva. The 24,000-square-metre...
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SOM unveils "cloud-like" headquarters for Alibaba in Shanghai
Architecture studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed its design for a headquarters for global technology company Alibaba in Shanghai's Xuhui District. The 75,000 square-metre building will...
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SOM uses "careful mix of removal, renovation and addition" to rejuvenate...
Architecture studio SOM has redeveloped a science complex in Massachusets using mass timber to integrate a series of existing buildings, with the earliest dating back to Frederick Law Olmsted's...
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SOM unveils design for Singapore's first supertall skyscraper
American architecture studio SOM has released designs for 8 Shenton Way, a supertall skyscraper in Singapore that will be the city's tallest and has a design that was informed by bamboo forests....
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OMA creates scenography for Islamic Arts Biennale within SOM-designed Jeddah...
Architecture studio OMA has designed the backdrop for the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale, which is being hosted in the Western Hajj Terminal at Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia. OMA designed the identity...
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SOM tops Kansas City airport with giant timber-clad canopy
International architecture studio SOM has completed a terminal for Kansas City International Airport that features a large wood-clad canopy. The SOM-designed terminal opened last week in Kansas City,...
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SOM designs "sinuous" mass-timber building for New York Climate Exchange
Architecture studio SOM has unveiled designs for the mass-timber New York Climate Exchange on Governors Island, which will be topped with a solar panel-covered canopy. Set to be built on Governors...
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SOM connects block-long glulam bridge to the High Line
Global architecture studio SOM and landscape architecture studio James Corner Field Operations have installed a block-long timber truss bridge called Timber Bridge, which connects Manhattan's High Line...
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SOM plans city to accommodate Muscat's growing population
Nineteen neighbourhoods constructed with local materials will define Sultan Haitham City, a metropolis for 100,000 residents that London studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is designing in Oman....
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SOM completes restoration of New York's historic Lever House
US-based architecture studio SOM has completed a restoration of the Lever House seventy years after the studio originally designed the historic New York City office building. Under developers...
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Dezeen Agenda features SOM's restoration of New York's Lever House
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the renovation of Lever House by architecture studio SOM. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has...
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SOM completes supertall skyscraper with "monolithic simplicity" in New York City
International architecture studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed the final supertall skyscraper of a development in Midtown Manhattan, marking the project's finalization. Master planned...
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SOM puts Department of Transportation "on display" at Cambridge building
American studio SOM has created a "vertical campus" for the US Department of Transportation in Massachusetts that features aluminium fins on its sides and a landscape installation by designer Maya Lin....
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