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SOM - Latest News MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards Winners Breathing Tower building, China - by SOM - wins image from architect MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards - 4 Feb 2013 Skidmore Owings and Merrill’s ‘Breathing Tower’, a landmark 75 story building in Wujiang, China, has been awarded both the coveted Overall Winner prize and the Tall Buildings category accolade, in the eleventh annual MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards competition. Emporis Skyscraper Award image © Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Emporis Skyscraper Award - 6 Dec 2012 #2 Al Hamra Tower (Kuwait) Points: 23 Height: 1,351.71 ft Floors: 80 Location: Kuwait City Architect: Skidmore, Owings And Merrill LLP #10 Tianjin Global Financial Center (China) Points: 11 Height: 1,105.31 ft Floors: 72 Location: Tianjin Architect: Skidmore, Owings And Merrill LLP 18 Oct 2012 SOM - Latest Design US Air Force Academy CCLD, Colorado Springs, CO, USA Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) picture © SOM US Air Force Academy CCLD The Center for Character and Leadership Development (CCLD), a new building on the campus of the United States Air Force Academy, will break ground this week. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), the CCLD is the first new building since 1981 to be erected on the terrazzo (the central square) of Air Force Academy’s campus, which was designed by SOM in 1954 and designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2004. Construction on the CCLD will be complete in early summer 2014. 1 Jun 2012 SOM - Recent Design Diagonal Tower, Seoul, South Korea image © SOM/Crystal CG Diagonal Tower A case study in efficiency, SOM’s design of the 343-meter (1,125-foot) tall Diagonal Tower successfully integrates massing, structure, and performance to minimize wind loads, reduce construction costs, provide dramatic views, and meet strict energy codes - all while maintaining an iconic skyline presence. 17 Jan 2012 SOM - Design News SOM Chicago Wins Competition to Design the Greenland Group Suzhou Center image © SOM | MIR Greenland Group Suzhou Center The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) proudly announces that it has won an international competition to design the Greenland Group Suzhou Center, in Wujiang, China. The 358-meter supertall tower will become the defining visual landmark for both the new Wujiang lakefront development and for the city as a whole. Skidmore Owings & Merrill : Practice Information SOM - Recent Designs Golden Hills Danang, Vietnam - 5 May 2011 picture : SOM FTP City Danang, Vietnam - 3 Mar 2011 picture : SOM China World Trade Tower, Beijing, China - 31 Aug 2010 photo : SOM, architects JTI headquarters Geneva, Switzerland - 10 May 2010 photo : SOM, architects Virginia Beach Convention Center, USA photo : SOM, architects Bill Baker, SOM - American Society of Civil Engineers Award Pearl River Tower, Guangzhou, China : SOM photo : SOM Key Projects by Skidmore Owings Merrill Major Buildings by SOM, alphabetical: AHF Tower - Al Hamra Firdous Tower project, Kuwait city, Kuwait 2007- MIPIM/Architectural Review “Future Project” Award 2008 Al Hamra & Firdous tower, Kuwait City 2008- image : SOM Al Hamra tower Al Rajhi Bank Headquarters, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2007- Al Sharq Tower, Sheik Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE 2007- 360m high, 100 storeys Dubai Buildings AMP Tower, Melbourne, Australia - Docomomo Australia is lobbying for the protection of AMP Tower by SOM Architects Arrowhead development - twin towers, Canary Wharf, England, UK 2007- image : SOM © Miller Hare Limited Arrowhead London Arts Hotel, La Marina 19, Port Olimpic, Barcelona, Spain 1992 Bruce Graham of Skidmore Owings Merrill Architects (SOM Architects) photo © Adrian Welch This spanish tower by SOM (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 Beijing CBD Eastern Expansion, Beijing, China 2010- picture : SOM Beijing CBD Beinecke Library, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 1963 201 Bishopsgate & The Broadgate Tower, Liverpool Street, London, UK 2008 photo © adrian welch Broadgate Tower : 3rd tallest building in City of London Bridging the Rift Research facility, Wadi Araba, Jordan 2007- Broadgate, City of London, UK 1984-91 Arup Associates with Skidmore Owings & Merrill photo © adrian welch Broadgate London Broadgate West II, Hackney, east London, UK 2003 13 storeys, 55m high Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE 2006-10 photo from Emaar Burj Khalifa : tallest building in world - former Burj Dubai 5 Canada Square Building, London, England, UK 2003 photo : SOM 5 Canada Square London Dawangjing District Masterplan, Beijing, China 2010- image : SOM and Crystal Dawangjing District Masterplan Digital Media City Landmark Tower, Seoul, Korea 2009- image : SOM Digital Media City Landmark Tower ENERGY +, Paris, France 2008- image : pmBdesign ENERGY + Paris Freedom Tower - Site of World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan, USA 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. Harvard University Northwest Science Building, Massachusetts, USA 2010 photo courtesy of SOM © ESTO/Anton Grassl Harvard University Northwest Science Building Heinz Offices + Laboratory, Hayes Park, Uxbridge Road, Hayes, Middlesex - Grade II* listed, 1985 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 1988 Marshall Strabala of Skidmore Owings Merrill LLP picture : SOM Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre Infinity Tower, Dubai, UAE 2006- 80 storeys, 330m high Inland Steel Building, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1958 Jin Mao Tower, Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai, China 1998 photo © Dennis Remmelzwaal Jin Mao Tower Tallest building in China since 2005 Seventh tallest building in world at time of writing John Hancock Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1970 photo : Royce Douglas John Hancock Center John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA 2007- JP Morgan Chase, 270 Park Avenue, New York, USA 1957-60 215m high King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia -2020 image : SOM King Abdullah Economic City 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 Lever Building, New York, USA 1952 A beautiful piece of New York architecture by SOM 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 The LG Kangnam Building, Seoul, South Korea 1997 photograph : SOM LG Kangnam Building : Development at LG Group corporate headquarters Lotte Super tower, Seoul, Korea 2007- Ludgate West, City of London, London, UK 1992 1 Ludgate Place; 10 Ludgate Place; 100 Ludgate Hill Manhattanville redevelopment plan, Columbia University, New York, USA 2007 Renzo Piano Building Workshop with SOM image from RPBW Columbia University New York Buildings Nanjing Greenland Financial Center, China -2009 picture : SOM Nanjing Greenland Financial Center New Providence Wharf, Isle of Dogs, east London, England 2004 Residential crescent-shaped building on Thames 58m high, 19 storeys One Chase Manhattan Plaza (Chase Manhattan Bank), New York, USA 1960 Gordon Bunschaft / Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) Ontario Tower, New Providence Wharf site, Isle of Dogs, east London, UK 2007 Residential tower 106m high, 31 storeys Pan Peninsula : Ballymore development, Leamouth Pennisula, London, UK 2007- image from TTA Group Pan Peninsula London Rice University BioScience Research Collaborative, Houston, Texas, USA 2009 Rice University BioScience Research Collaborative Rolex Tower, Dubai, UAE 2009 63 storeys Sears Tower, Wacker Drive, Chicago, USA 1973 photograph courtesy of Jan Klerks Sears Tower Chicago Stockley Park – Buildings B9, B10 & B11, Heathrow, Middlesex, UK - Time Warner Center, New York, USA 2004 photo © Andrew McRae Time Warner Center Toronto Lester Pearson International Airport expansion, Toronto, Canada 2007-10 Moshe Safdie and Associates Inc with Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Adamson Architects The Trump International Hotel and Tower, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2009 Architect: Adrian Smith, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Trump Tower Chicago 9 West 57th Street, New York, USA 1974 Gordon Bunschaft of Skidmore Owings Merrill Architects photo © Andrew McRae 9 West 57th Street aka Solow Building - 49 storeys, 672 ft high - concave vertical slope for lighting Similar to W. R. Grace Building because the initial, rejected façade design for the 9 West 57th Street Building was used in the design for the W. R. Grace Building World Trade Centre Towers : WTC7 New York, USA photo © Andrew McRae World Trade Centre Towers W.R. Grace Building, 1114 Sixth Ave, Manhattan, USA 1974 Bowing façade due to light regulations, rather than the more normal rectilinear stepbacks More projects by Skidmore Owings Merrill (SOM) online soon

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

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