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Paul V. Galvin Library (1962) of Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL, USA, by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

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Tianjin CTF Finance Center in Tianjin, China

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in collaboration with Ronald Lu & Partners

(Photo: Stock Photos from Iryna Makukha/Shutterstock)

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SOM UNVEILS DESIGN FOR ALIBABA-BACKED TOWER SET TO BE SINGAPORE’S TALLEST BUILDING

American architecture giant Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed its design for an Alibaba-backed tower soaring 350 metres (1,148 feet) in height to become Singapore’s tallest skyscraper upon completion.

The 63-storey mixed-use development at 8 Shenton Way in the Tanjong Pagar area will comprise more than 148,000 square metres (1.6 million square feet) of floor space for office, retail, hotel and luxury residential use, as well as 10,000 square metres of elevated, public green space, Chicago-based SOM said Thursday in a release.

The supertall project will feature direct underground connectivity to Tanjong Pagar MRT station and is seeking the top-level Green Mark Platinum certification from the Building Construction Authority of Singapore, with extensive use of natural materials like zero-waste terracotta and engineered bamboo.

“Designed specifically with the tropical climate of Singapore in mind, this building will be one of the first post-pandemic mixed-use towers in the world incorporating health and wellness as its primary design drivers,” said SOM partner Mustafa Abadan. “By seeking to achieve the city’s newest and most rigorous sustainability standards, our design will establish a new paradigm for resilient and elegant high-rise design in Singapore and beyond.”

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The structures at the Beinecke my grandfather had a hand in constructing. I find it poignant that they happen to be those which 1) permit vertical movement, and 2) hold up the entire building.

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based energy storage systems. The proposal features two particularly notable ideas. The first brings to mind research from the likes of Gravitricity and IISA, and would use excess energy – whether from renewable sources like solar or from a standard power grid – to raise a weight up to the top of a very tall skyscraper. When required, the weight is then released, allowing it to descend to the bottom of the building, harnessing the force of gravity to drive a generator.

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When the John Hancock Center (now 875 North Michigan Avenue) topped out on May 6, 1968, it was the second tallest building in the world and the tallest outside New York City.  

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Aerial view looking northeast of Midtown Manhattan in late September, 1970 with many new office skyscrapers.

The 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) with the 40-story 1250 Broadway Tower (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1969) are on center, foreground with the 77-story Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) are visible at backgroud. The Park Avenue’s modern skyscrapers corridor, with Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) are visible at background, at left. The United Nations’ Secretariat Building (Wallace K. Harrison, 1950) are at background, at right. The building under construction that can be seen just behind Empire State is the 45-story 600 Third Avenue Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971). The steel skeleton that be begun to rises up at extreme left, on foreground, is the future W.R. Grace Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1972) under construction.

Photo: The Scheller Co.

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Islamic Cultural Center of New York 1711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10029 United States

Consequently, the building is rotated 29° from Manhattan's north-south street grid, which in turn is rotated 29° from due north-south.

The Islamic Cultural Center was the first purpose-built mosque in New York and continues to be one of the city's largest.

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We have a selection of beautiful prints, apparel and products celebrating the iconic Gas Company Tower in Los Angeles by Skidmore Owings & Merrill from 1991.

Part of our Postmodern Architecture collection

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Desde Blog Arte Plus:

Construcción de muro con realidad aumentada.

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Arthur Keating Hall (1966) of Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL, USA, by Myron Goldsmith of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

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She Opened Up Her Heart and Let Me In by Thomas Hawk

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Contemporary Living Room

Large contemporary open concept living room idea with a light wood floor and a beige floor.

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The Inland Steel Building is one of modern architecture’s most epochal structures. The first Chicago high-rise built after the Great Depression, Inland Steel was the paradigm for [Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill]’s principle that high-rise form at its best does, indeed, follow function. Inland Steel changed the way towers are constructed, and helped transform American office culture during the second half of the 20th century.

The building consists of a 19-story office tower and a 25-story service tower. A one-story unit that contains auxiliary facilities is attached to the service tower. The 19 floors of the office tower, each with an area of 10,200 square feet, have no interior columns, and therefore these open floor areas allow maximum flexibility in the arrangement of offices and work rooms.

The framing is structural steel. Girders, 60 feet long, span the whole building and support the beams and decking. Frames and mullions of the curtain wall are stainless steel, glazed with tinted laminated glass and paneled with porous concrete and insulated stainless steel sheets.

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