SOM Architects - Building News:
Burj Dubai, UAE

SOM Architects : tallest building in world - under construction: 160 storey tower

Al Hamra & Firdous tower, Kuwait City

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - skyscraper

ENERGY +, Paris, France

image: pmBdesign
French office building

Arrowhead development – twin towers, Canary Wharf
2007-

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SOM Architects : Arrowhead office development

AHF Tower - Al Hamra Firdous Tower project, Kuwait city, Kuwait
2007-
MIPIM/Architectural Review “Future Project” Award 2008

Leamouth tower, east London, UK
2008-
For Ballymore Properties: School on lower 6 floors + arts centre, leisure centre, retail + restaurants; residential above

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

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-

Image from TTA Group
London towers

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

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York
2007-

Lotte Super tower, Seoul, Korea
2007-

Manhattanville redevelopment plan, Columbia University, New York, USA
2007
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with SOM

image from RPBW 211207
New York Buildings


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
SOM Architects : Jin Mao Building

Photo: Andrew McRae
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: New York World Trade Centre

SOM Architects : Arts Hotel Barcelona

Skidmore Owings & Merrill Architects : Lever Building New York

SOM Architects : Time Warner Center New York

New York photo: Andrew McRae, 2007

SOM Architects : 9 West 57th Street New York

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.

SOM Architects : 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 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)

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 and Glasgow: 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

More projects online soon



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

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

SOM partner : Walter Netsch

Modern Architects

Modern Houses



World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

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

SOM Architects: Chicago buildings

Buildings / photos for the Skidmore Owings Merrill Architects page welcome:
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Skidmore Owings & Merrill - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

Website: www.som.com