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Continuing Education: 3D Printing

Beyond the Prototype: Architects and designers take additive manufacturing to a new level.

May 1, 2016

Gutenberg’s introduction of movable type six centuries ago was a true revolution. The development forever altered the way information was received and disseminated, democratizing knowledge. Printing’s recent move beyond two dimensions could be similarly transformative.

Continuing Education: The Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability at Sandy Ground

Where Zero Is the Top Score: An ultra-energy-efficient building defines a new paradigm for New York’s schools.

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

January 1, 2016

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The ambitious environmental agenda of a new elementary school by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) on Staten Island, New York, is obvious from the first encounter: almost 1,600 photovoltaic (PV) panels cloak the 68,000-sqare-foot, two-story structure, covering the south facade, extending over its roof, and cantilevering out to float above a playing field.

In Focus: The Strand Theater

SOM reinvents a 100-year-old theater for a new era.

Beth Broome

December 1, 2015

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Dramatically framed by Morphosis’s glassy Federal Building looming behind it, the revived Strand theater, a gleaming red experimental performance space and education center for the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, clicks into its site on San Francisco’s Market Street like one of the final pieces of a complex puzzle.

One World Trade Center

Symbol in the Skyline: With the opening of One World Trade Center, Ground Zero's fraught icon is finally complete.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen

January 16, 2015

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With the opening of One World Trade Center, Ground Zero's fraught icon is finally complete.

Pearl River Tower

Towering Ambition: The architects and engineers behind an office building in rapidly expanding Guangzhou put super green before supertall.

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

March 16, 2014

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In the realm of supertall skyscrapers, the recently completed Pearl River Tower (PRT) in Guangzhou, China, isn't that tall.

United States Consulate General, Guangzhou

Diplomatic Position: In the midst of the visual hubbub of China's third-largest city, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill creates an understated ensemble of buildings for the U.S. Consulate General.

Clare Jacobson

March 16, 2014

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Diplomatic Position: In the midst of the visual hubbub of China's third-largest city, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill creates an understated ensemble of buildings for the U.S. Consulate General. The U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou, China, makes only the quietest of claims within the city's noisy new business district. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), its seven low-rise buildings—offices, screening facilities, a warehouse, and a residence for Marines—dot a 7.4-acre site in the burgeoning Pearl River New Town. Zaha Hadid's opera house lies catercorner to it, and Wilkinson Eyre's supertall IFC Guangzhou and KPF's soon-to-be-supertaller CTF Guangzhou are close by.

Genome Sciences Building

The DNA of Good Design: A research facility at the University of North Carolina shines the light of day on scientific discovery and collaboration.

Sara Hart

November 15, 2013

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To attract the best and brightest faculty and students, universities today are asking architects for buildings that not only serve their academic goals but also bring prestige to their campuses through innovative design.

Al Hamra Firdous Tower

Sculpting the Skyline: Architects, engineers, and contractors tackle a challenging geometry to build a supertall tower with a striking silhouette for a desert city.

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

May 16, 2012

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It is in the nature of tall buildings that rankings are short-lived, but at least for the moment, the 1,354-foot-tall, 77-story Al Hamra Firdous Tower, by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), is the tallest building in Kuwait City.

Park Hotel Hyderabad

A trapezoidal structure wrapped in a jewellike screen offers an adventurous yet serene ambience.

Uttiya Bhattacharya

December 16, 2011

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While India's Park Hotel group has forged a reputation over its 44-year history for boutique luxury establishments, its brazenly sculptural, 270-room hotel in Hyderabad is the first it has built from scratch.

One World Trade Center

A controversial tower rises at ground zero

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

September 16, 2011

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There is no denying that One World Trade Center (WTC), the 104-story tower now rising at the northern end of the Ground Zero site, is a tremendously ambitious commercial real estate venture.