5 Long Span Structures with Awesome Roofs
Architects sometimes feel restricted when designing spaces with long span structures. Generally, the maximum span for beams in building construction depends on the beams' material compositions along ...
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One by One: Buildings Rise on the World Trade Center Site
The World Trade Center site has become of a deep sentimental value since the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. People visit it to pay tribute to all of those who lost their lives in the ...
Burj Khalifa | SOM
Burj Khalifa Soaring 828 meters above the metropolis of Dubai, the Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building. The design for the 162-story tower combines local cultural influences with ...
JTI Headquarters | SOM
JTI Headquarters Surrounded by parkland and built on a former industrial site, the new JTI Headquarters is located in a Geneva district that is home to prestigious international organizations. The ...
Stratford Skyscraper | SOM
Stratford Skyscraper offers a new residential paradigm by re-envisioning high-rise living and how London’s rich variety of residential typologies can be brought into a vertically stacked building, ...
SOM Updates New KCI Airport Design Based on Community Feedback
The citizens of the city of Kansas got a look at the detailed renderings of the proposed $1.3 billion Kansas City International (KCI) Airport. The SOM-led design team released the KCI Airport ...
The Forum: Renzo Piano’s Final Addition to Columbia University’s Campus
Columbia University's The Forum—the last of three buildings designed by Renzo Piano, is finally ready to open its doors to the public. Located on a triangular plot in the University's Manhattanville ...
25 of the Best Tourist Attractions in New York City
Kurt Vonnegut's 1976 Novel, "Slapstick or Lonesome No More!" has dubbed New York as the “Skyscraper National Park.” It is true, with innumerable tall structures - many of them beautiful- calling this ...
Piercing the Sky – What is the Tallest Building in the World?
Human beings are obsessed with creating and breaking records, over and over again. Our skyline has been regularly altered by the skyscrapers that stretch higher and higher. Once upon a time, churches ...
New Renderings for ‘The Porch’ Office Building in Chicago by SOM
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) unveiled plans for a new office building The Porch, in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago, earlier this year. The Porch will be located at 330 North Green ...
SOM Contributes to Development Masterplan for Eastern Paris District
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) will be taking part in the Charenton-Bercy development project, on the outskirts of eastern Paris. This comes after a team including the Chicago-based firm as well ...
St Albans School | SOM
In 2006, with its centennial approaching, St Albans School, a private boys’ school founded in 1909, decided to embark upon its first new construction project in nearly 30 years. The institution hired ...
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