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New York Projects, USA : Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Health + Science

Burj Dubai, UAE
Burj Dubai Tower
Burj Dubai tower : tallest building in world - under construction: 160 storey tower

Al Hamra & Firdous tower - AHF Tower, Kuwait City, Kuwait
2007-
Al Hamra & Firdous tower
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - skyscraper
MIPIM/Architectural Review “Future Project” Award 2008

ENERGY +, Paris, France
2008-
ENERGY + building
image: pmBdesign
French office building

Arrowhead development – twin towers, Canary Wharf
2007-
Arrowhead development
SOM © Miller Hare Limited
SOM Architects : Arrowhead office development

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
1988
Marshall Strabala of Skidmore Owings Merrill LLP
Hong Kong Convention Centre
Image : SOM
Hong Kong Convention Centre

Leamouth tower, east London, UK : see Pan Peninsula

King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia
-2020
King Abdullah Economic City
Image : SOM
King Abdullah Economic City

Learning Centre, Upper School, Greenwich Academy, Connecticut, USA
2004

Al Rajhi Bank Headquarters, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2007-

201 Bishopsgate & The Broadgate Tower, Liverpool Street, City of London, UK
2008
Broadgate Tower
photo © adrian welch
The Broadgate Tower is 3rd tallest building in the City of London
London building

Pan Peninsula : Ballymore development, Leamouth Pennisula, London, UK
2007-
Pan Peninsula London
Image from TTA Group
Pan Peninsula London

Bridging the Rift Research facility, Wadi Araba, Jordan
2007-

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York
2007-

Nanjing Greenland Financial Center, China
-2009
Nanjing Greenland Financial Center
image : SOM
Nanjing Greenland Financial Center

Lotte Super tower, Seoul, Korea
2007-

Manhattanville redevelopment plan, Columbia University, New York, USA
2007
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with SOM
Columbia University
image from RPBW 211207
Columbia University New York Buildings

5 Canada Square Building, London, England, UK
2003
5 Canada Square London
photo : SOM
5 Canada Square London

The LG Kangnam Building, Seoul, South Korea
1997
LG Kangnam Building
photo : SOM

LG Kangnam Building : Development at LG Group corporate headquarters

Key SOM Architects' Buildings

Lever Building, New York, USA
1952
John Hancock Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1970
Sears Tower, Wacker Drive, Chicago, USA
1973
Freedom Tower - Site of World Trade Center, New York, USA
2004-

Jin Mao Tower, Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai
1998
Jin Mao Tower
photo: Andrew McRae
Jin Mao Building
Tallest building in China since 2005
Seventh tallest building in world at time of writing

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill : Sears Tower Chicago

Other SOM Architects' Buildings, chronological:

Lever House, New York, USA 1952
Inland Steel Building, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1958
JP Morgan Chase New York, USA 1960
One Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, USA 1960
Beinecke Library, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 1963
Arts Hotel, Barcelona, Spain 1992
Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai, China 1998
Time Warner Center, New York, USA 2004
AMP Tower, Melbourne -

Docomomo Australia is lobbying for the protection of AMP Tower by SOM Architects

SOM Architects Projects:

Time Warner Center New York
Time Warner Center New York
New York photo : Andrew McRae, 2007

SOM Architects : 9 West 57th Street New York
9 West 57th Street
New York photo : Andrew McRae, 2007

Selected Skidmore Owings Merrill Buildings in more detail

Freedom Tower
- Site of World Trade Center
Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan
2004-
Daniel Libeskind Architects + David Childs of SOM Architects
Controversial towers to replace the New York World Trade Centre skyscrapers lost in 2001. The main Freedom Tower skyscraper by Libeskind was to be a significant number of feet high - 1,776 feet - to mark a key American date in history - United States Year of Independence; the building was largely handed over to architect David Childs. Designed to be the tallest tower in the world for the site leaseholder - real estate developer Larry Silverstein. The angular design is typical for Libeskind but here echoes the Statue of Liberty. A Snohetta building was also due to appear but the situation is in a state of flux, more online soon - 2006.

World Trade Centre Towers : WTC7 New York
WTC7 New York
New York photo : Andrew McRae, 2007

Lever Building (Lever House)
390 Park Avenue, New York
1950-52
Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) Architects
A beautiful piece of New York architecture facing Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building and trying to give it a run for its money. Having had a good look at both I think Mies just wins but nevertheless this was a classic in its day, podium and tower:
Lever Building

Arts Hotel, Barcelona
La Marina 19, Port Olimpic, Barcelona
1992
Bruce Graham of Skidmore Owings Merrill Architects (SOM Architects)
Arts Hotel Barcelona
photo: Adrian Welch
This tower (left of the image) is 154m high and uses and expressed, white-painted regular structural frame. Located immediately west of the Mapfre Tower building (right of image): Arts Hotel Barcelona

JP Morgan Chase New York
270 Park Avenue, New York
1957-60
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Architects
This Manhattan skyscraper is 215m high.
JP Morgan Chase buildings in Edinburgh: JP Morgan Chase building

One Chase Manhattan Plaza (Chase Manhattan Bank)
-
1960
Gordon Bunschaft / Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Time Warner Center
New York
2004
Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)

Infinity Tower
Dubai, UAE
2006-
80 storeys, 330m high

New Providence Wharf, Isle of Dogs, east London
2004
Residential crescent-shaped building on Thames
58m high, 19 storeys

Ontario Tower, New Providence Wharf site, Isle of Dogs, east London
2007
Residential tower
106m high, 31 storeys

Al Sharq Tower, Sheik Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE
2007-
360m high, 100 storeys
SOM Architects : Dubai building

Ludgate West, City of London, London, UK
1992
1 Ludgate Place; 10 Ludgate Place; 100 Ludgate Hill

201 Bishopsgate, City of London, UK
-

Stockley Park – Buildings B9, B10 & B11, Heathrow, Middlesex
-

Toronto Lester Pearson International Airport expansion, Toronto, Canada
2007-10
Moshe Safdie and Associates Inc with Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Adamson Architects

Broadgate, City of London, UK
1984-91
Arup Associates with Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Famous and celebrated piece of urban design, focused on the circular ice rink-cum-piazza: 13 buildings

Rolex Tower, Dubai, UAE
2009
63 storeys

W.R. Grace Building, 1114 Sixth Ave, southeast corner of W.43rd St, Manhattan, USA
1974
Bowing façade due to light regulations, rather than the more normal rectilinear stepbacks

Broadgate West II, Hackney, east London, UK
2003
13 storeys, 55m high

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Context to the above buildings by SOM Architects
New York Architecture
London Architecture

Former SOM designer : Marshall Strabala

Practice Information

Studios based in the USA and other locations across the globe

Heinz Offices + Laboratory, Hayes Park, Uxbridge Road, Hayes, Middlesex
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Grade II* listed, 1985

SOM partner : Walter Netsch

Gordon Bunschaft (+ Oscar Niemeyer) : Pritzker Prize Winners 1988

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