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SOM Architects - Building News New York Projects, USA : Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Health + Science Burj Dubai, UAE Burj Dubai tower : tallest building in world - under construction: 160 storey tower Al Hamra & Firdous tower - AHF Tower, Kuwait City, Kuwait 2007- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - skyscraper MIPIM/Architectural Review “Future Project” Award 2008 ENERGY +, Paris, France 2008- image: pmBdesign French office building Arrowhead development – twin towers, Canary Wharf 2007- 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 Image : SOM Hong Kong Convention Centre Leamouth tower, east London, UK : see Pan Peninsula King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia -2020 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 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 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 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 image from RPBW 211207 Columbia University New York Buildings 5 Canada Square Building, London, England, UK 2003 photo : SOM 5 Canada Square London The LG Kangnam Building, Seoul, South Korea 1997 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 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 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. World Trade Centre Towers : 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) 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 More projects online soon New York Architects 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 - Grade II* listed, 1985 SOM partner : Walter Netsch Gordon Bunschaft (+ Oscar Niemeyer) : Pritzker Prize Winners 1988 Chicago Buildings Modern Architects World Architecture : e-architect - key buildings across the globe Buildings / photos for the Skidmore Owings Merrill Architects page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk Skidmore Owings & Merrill - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt Website: www.som.com			Key Links: Skyscrapers American Architects New Houses Foster + Partners Dubai Architecture Office Buildings Architects