Architect chosen to design sustainable 2026 Olympic Village
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, also known as SOM, will design the Olympic Village for the upcoming 2026 games...
A new LEED Gold civic center will reinvigorate downtown Long Beach
As part of Long Beach’s largest public-private partnership effort to date, international architecture firm SOM...
Renowned landscape architects unveil designs to save the Tidal Basin
The National Mall Tidal Basin — also known as “America’s front yard” — is home to some of the nation’s...
SOM designs a low-carbon waterfront community for China’s “most livable city”
Global design firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has unveiled designs for Jiuzhou Bay, a new 5.6 million-square-foot...
Office towers to boast first AI-driven facade powered by renewable energy
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Australia-based architecture firm Fender Katsalidis Architects have placed first...
SOM unveils designs for first-ever human settlement on the moon
Just a few months ahead of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)...
SOM unveils images of new undulating mixed-use tower in China
SOM recently just unveiled the first images of a spiraling mixed-use tower planned for China. The Hangzhou Wangchao...
SOM’s diagrid glass tower rises like a Chinese paper lantern in Beijing
A giant glittering glass lantern has risen in Beijing. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) designed the Poly International...
Thailand’s first LEED Platinum “vertical village” to rise in Bangkok
Thailand’s wealthiest man, Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, has teamed up with architecture firm SOM to plan One Bangkok,...
One World Trade Center achieves LEED Gold certification
The building achieved its LEED Gold Core and Shell certification thanks to a number of advanced energy- and water-saving...
SOM designs pedestrian-friendly revamp for the heart of Philadelphia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTtsmrT7y6k SOM’s masterplan for Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station Precinct...
World's tallest Passive House tower rising in NYC
The world's tallest Passive House building is steadily rising in New York City, and Inhabitat recently had a chance...
VIDEO: World's tallest Passive House building rises at Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island
Cornell Tech Residential will join three other buildings (The Bloomberg Center, The Bridge at Cornell Tech and...
Beautiful prismatic glass panels envelop SOM's Beijing Greenland Center
The 260-meter tower is enveloped in curtain walls made of glass panels arranged in a prism-like manner. The high-performance...
Cornell is building the world’s tallest passive-house building on Roosevelt Island
Developed by Cornell University, Hudson Inc., and Related Companies, the two-million-square-foot Cornell Tech University...
