Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM)
Formed in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and
Nathaniel Owings; in 1939 they were
joined by John O. Merrill
SOM has completed over 10,000
projects around the nation and in more
than 50 countries around the world and
maintains offices in all over the world
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Freedom Tower
Trump International Hotel and Tower
Burj Dubai
San Francisco International Terminal,
Sears Tower
First Wisconsin Plaza
Haj Terminal, Jeddah
Weyerhaeuser Headquarters
John Hancock Center, Chicago
Wells College Library, Aurora
Air Force Academy Chapel
Lever House
One of the largest architectural firms
More than 800 awards for
quality and innovation
Expertise is in high-end
commercial buildings
SOM was one of the first major modern
American architectural firms to
promote a corporate face of
Architecture
Presented By:
Manish Singh
B.Arch 4
061016
It was SOM that led the way to the
widespread use of the modern internationalstyle or "glass box" skyscraper.
Faithful following of Ludwig Mies Van Der
Rohe’s ideas, Frank Lloyd Wright nicknamed
them “The Three Blind Mies”.
LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENTS,
CHICAGO, 1948, MIES VAN DER ROHE
Lever House ,
New York , 1951 , SOM
John Hancock tower,
Sears Tower, Chicago ,
Chicago , 1965, SOM
1974, SOM
Seagram Building, New York, Mies Van
der Rohe, 1954-58
Jinao Tower
Nanjing, China
Pearl River Tower,
China
Sophistication in building technology
Freedom Tower
New York
Burj Dubai , 2009 , SOM
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
•Its design is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd
Wright's vision for The Illinois, a mile
high skyscraper designed for Chicago.
•The building resembles the bundled
tube form of the Sears Tower, but is
not a tube structure.
•Has 26 Terraces
•"The tower goes up in steps in a
spiraling way. In Islamic architecture, this
symbolizes ascending towards the
heavens." - Architect Adrien Smith,
Project Facts
Completion Year: 2009
Expected Height : 818 m
Floors : Around 162
Site Area: 1,121,707 ft2
Project Area: 5,000,000 ft2
Sears Tower, Chicago ,
1974, SOM
A Y-shaped floor plan is inspired from the
geometrics of the desert flower and the
patterning systems employed in Islamic
architecture (Onion Dome).
Desert flower
Samsung Tower Palace 3
Seoul , SOM , 2004
According to SOM Burj Dubai
was designed based on the 73floor Tower Palace Three, an allresidential building in Seoul,
South Korea