SOM Architects, Buildings, Designs, Office, Pictures, Towers, America, Photos

SOM Architects : New York, USA

e-architect


  World Architecture : index

Architecture News

World Buildings
Skidmore Owings & Merrill : Architecture Information + Images  

Major Projects, 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-
Al Hamra tower
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-
Arrowhead London
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)
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

Beinecke Library, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1963

201 Bishopsgate & The Broadgate Tower, Liverpool Street, London, UK
2008
Broadgate Tower
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
Broadgate London
photo © adrian welch
Broadgate London

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

Burj Dubai, UAE
2006-09
Burj Dubai Tower
photo from CB
Burj Dubai : tallest building in world

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

ENERGY +, Paris, France
2008-
ENERGY + Paris
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.

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
1988
Marshall Strabala of Skidmore Owings Merrill LLP
Hong Kong Convention Centre
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
Jin Mao Tower
photo: Andrew McRae
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
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
King Abdullah Economic City
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 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
LG Kangnam Building
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
Columbia University
image from RPBW 211207
Columbia University New York Buildings

Nanjing Greenland Financial Center, China
-2009
Nanjing Greenland Financial Center
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-
Pan Peninsula London
image from TTA Group
Pan Peninsula London

Rolex Tower, Dubai, UAE
2009
63 storeys

Sears Tower, Wacker Drive, Chicago, USA
1973
Sears Tower Chicago

Stockley Park – Buildings B9, B10 & B11, Heathrow, Middlesex, UK
-
Time Warner Center, New York, USA
2004
Time Warner Center
photo: Andrew McRae, 2007
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
-
9 West 57th Street
photo: Andrew McRae
9 West 57th Street

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



American Architects

Practice Information

Offices based across the globe

Former SOM designer : Marshall Strabala

Skidmore Owings & Merrill : main page

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

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

SOM partner : Walter Netsch

New York Architecture

Chicago Buildings

Architecture Studios





World Architecture : e-architect - key buildings across the globe

Buildings / photos for the Skidmore Owings Merrill Architecture page welcome:
info@e-architect.co.uk


SOM Architects - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

Website: www.som.com
 





























































Key Links:

Skyscrapers

New Houses

Architects