SOM in the News

• The Independent, June 18, 2008: "Mile-high tower wars: How tall is too tall?"

• AIArchitect , May 2008: "SOM’s Roadside Attraction: Just beyond the freeway, a new kind of urbanism will be planted in Dallas"

• High-Profile Monthly, May 2008: "Teamwork Builds a Collaborative Research Facility" (PDF)

• Contract Magazine, February 29, 2008: "Green Beginnings"

• San Francisco Examiner, February 25, 2008: "Parkmerced could only benefit from a major design overhaul"

• Architect Magazine, February 2008: "Building the Modern Cathedral"

• The Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2008: "Real-Estate Body Recognizes Host of Designs"

• Crain’s Chicago Business, January 29, 2007: "After the Games: The Olympics Could Put Neighborhood Back into the South Side Lakefront"

• San Francisco Chronicle, January 21, 2008: "Grand green vision for S.F.'s Parkmerced"

• The Monthly: The East Bay's Premier Magazine of Culture and Commerce, January 2008: " Medieval Modern: Christ the Light Cathedral completes an architectural trinity in downtown Oakland"

• GreenSource, January 2008: "Enlightening Sustainability: University research facility is a teaching tool for eco-minded students"

• Engineering News Record, January 2008: "Award of Excellence/The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2007: High-Rise Adapts To Lesser Foundation"

• Chicago Tribune, Dec. 23, 2007: "From an Olympic stadium to green's new power: A year full of fabulous form and function"

• First Appeared in ArcCA Magazine, December 2007: "Construction Documents in China: SOM's Experiences"

• Presentation at Commonwealth Club hosted by FORA.tv, December 10, 2007: “Creating 21st Century Sustainable Neighborhoods”

• Where: A blog about urban places, placemaking, and the concept of "place," December 5, 2007: The Craig Hartman Interview - Part II

• Where: A blog about urban places, placemaking, and the concept of "place," December 3, 2007: The Craig Hartman Interview - Part I

• Modern Steel Construction, December 2007: “Building In Beijing” (PDF)

• Civil Engineering Magazine, November 2007: “Suspending the Limits”

• Wired Magazine, November 27, 2007: “Engineer Bill Baker Is the King of Superstable 150-Story Structures”

• AJ Specification, October 2007: “Specifier’s Choice / 201 Bishopsgate & The Broadgate Tower”
  Part 1 – Introduction
  Part 2 – Project Analysis
  Part 3 – Materials Boards

• Chicago Business / Powered by Crain's, October 29, 2007: "Looking up, all around: How does Chicago stack up against the world's skyscrapers? Here's a quick tour"

• Building, October 2007, "What the table tells us: The Building Good Employer Guide 2007"

  SOM London was named as one of 50 firms in Building magazine's "Good Employers Guide," compiled based on the results of an anonymous employee survey carried out earlier in the year.

• World Architecture News.com, July 26, 2007: "Building the Burj" Podcast

• CBS 2 Chicago, May 8, 2007: "Chicago Businesses Bolster 2016 Olympic Bid"

• The Architect's Newspaper, May 3, 2007, "Treasure Island set to become enviably sustainable"

• Chicago Tribune, April 22, 2007: "Olympic victory made in China: How a partnership with Shanghai talent helped Chicago land bid for 2016 Games"

• Urban Land Institute, March 2007: "The Windy City Reaches for Its Rings"

• Focus, March 2007, "Olympian Effort: Chicago Goes for the Games"

• inform / Architecture + Design in the Mid-Atlantic, 2007: number three, "Unconventional Wisdom: The Virginia Beach Convention Center by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill offers an intriguing new take on meeting space"

• Chicago Tribune, March 4, 2007: "Brains behind the bid"

• Chicago Sun-Times, September 24, 2006:
  • "It Takes an Olympic Village", Part 1 (PDF)
  • "It Takes an Olympic Village", Part 2 (PDF)
  • "It Takes an Olympic Village", Part 3 (PDF)
  • "2 Small Venues Could Be Big Players (PDF)

• Chicago Sun-Times, September 21, 2006: "Big Dream Could Bring City Full Circle in Just Over a Century" (PDF)

• Chicago Tribune, September 17, 2006: "The Olympian task of Kerwin and Enquist: Pair shapes city's bid to land 2016 Summer Games"

• SCUP Journal , June 2004: "Principles of Campus Master Planning: Principles of campus planning applied to UC Merced illustrate how much planning a new campus is similar to planning a complex city"