News US-Chinese team to masterplan a science district in Hangzhou US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Chinese designer GAD have won a competition to masterplan a research district in the city of Hangzhou, about 100km west of Shanghai.…
News SOM designs 270m-tall Shenzhen headquarters for shipping giant CIMC Ground has been broken on a global headquarters for shipping company China International Marine Containers Group (CIMC). The building, designed by US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), is intended…
News SOM designs 17 residential builds to surround New Jersey performing arts center Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been chosen to design 17 residential buildings for the New Jersey Performing Arts Centre (NJPAC), which the practice designed in the late nineties. The…
News SOM designs building prototypes that integrate energy generation and storage US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has teamed up with Swiss energy storage company Energy Vault to create four building prototypes that can generate and store their own energy.…
News Construction begins on 190m-tall tower in Guadalajara Construction has begun on “Legend”, a 190m-tall, mixed-use tower in the central Mexican city of Guadalajara. The tower was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in collaboration with Mexico…
News SOM reveals designs for Chicago O’Hare expansion Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has revealed its design for Satellite Concourse 1 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. SOM’s design is inspired by the orchard field that gave O’Hare its…
News SOM’s supertall New York office tower complete The 285m-tall Two Manhattan West skyscraper, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), has been completed. The tower is located on the corner of Ninth Avenue and West 31st Street,…
News SOM’s ‘terminal in a garden’ opens at Bengaluru’s international airport A 255,000 sq m airport terminal designed by Chicago architect SOM has opened at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, increase its capacity by 25 million passengers. Terminal 2 contains a…
News New York’s iconic Lever House renovated by SOM Restoration work has been completed on Lever House, an icon of 20th-century modernism in Midtown Manhattan. The 94m-high office was completed in 1952 for soap company Lever Brothers, and the…
News Skanska tops out SOM-designed $448m public health lab in New York Skanska topped out the structural steelwork for the new home of the famous New York City Public Health Laboratory last week on 20 September.
News Skanska completes $414m renovation of Penn Station’s LIRR concourse Skanska has finished the $414m renovation of Pennsylvania Station’s Long Island Railroad (LIRR) Concourse in New York City. Penn District Station Developer LLC awarded the project in 2020 to modernise…
News SOM designs net-zero campus for New York university Chicago architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has designed the Climate Exchange, a net-zero campus for Stony Brook University, a New York public research institute. The 400,000 sq ft exchange…
News SOM’s terminal for Kansas City International Airport opens A 1.1 million sq ft terminal at Kansas City International Airport in Missouri, designed by the New York arm of architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), has opened for business.…
Projects How “raking props” helped Scandinavia’s tallest building rise from clay The Swedish city of Gothenburg is getting its first skyscraper, the 245m Karlatornet tower designed by US architect Skidmore Owens & Merrill, set to be the centrepiece of a new…
News Selldorf and SOM to modernise Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum Selldorf Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) have been chosen to create a modernisation plan for the Hirshhorn contemporary art museum in Washington, DC. The duo will expand its…