Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is one of the leading
architecture, interior design, engineering, and urban-planning
firms in the world, with a 75-year reputation for design excellence
and a portfolio that includes some of the most important
architectural accomplishments of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since
its inception, SOM has been a leader in the research and
development of specialized technologies, new processes and
innovative ideas, many of which have had a palpable and lasting
impact on the design profession and the physical environment.
SOM's multi-disciplinary design approach unites the capabilities
and services of architects, planners, engineers and interior
designers under one roof. It is this team approach that allows the
firm to look at each project as a whole, rather than as simply the
sum of many parts. The result is an integrated design, sensitive to
both form and function, for which the firm has come to be
recognized.
The combination of the firm's technical expertise and
imaginative structural solutions has resulted in award-winning,
cost effective world-class projects. SOM leads the profession in
the development of efficient and economical structural systems,
including innovations ranging from the framed, bundled and trussed
tubular systems of the 1960s and 1970s to the supercores, stayed
mast systems, and aerodynamic shaping of today's towers. The
firm is credited with the design of 4 of the world's 10 tallest
buildings, including the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest manmade
structure. In developing its unique 'buttressed core'
structural system, SOM engineers harnessed the forces of nature and
employed sophisticated wind engineering to launch the new era of
the supertall.
While regarded for its advances in tall building development,
SOM's structural canon extends to a wide variety of specialized
structures. In its striking design of London's Broadgate
Exchange House, the firm's design team created an iconic structure
that is both a physical and visual gateway to the Exchange Square
plaza and surrounding buildings. Similarly, the long-span
roofs of the Virginia Beach Convention Center and the Korean Air
Lines Operations Center in Seoul, Korea poetically articulate the
structures' design and function. Whether designing a private
residence or large scale development, SOM's approach remains the
same: to team cutting-edge technology and research with progressive
methodology, in order to create lasting architecture of intrinsic
value.
Efficient. Economic. Iconic. SOM.
www.som.com
CONTACT DETAILS
Beth Gervain
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
224 S. Michigan Ave., #1000
Chicago, IL 60604
United States of America
T: +1.312.360.4179
E: beth.gervain@som.com
