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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) leads the expansion of the O’Hare Airport creating a contemporary concourse that can accommodate multiple aircraft types

Satellite One

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) collaborates with Ross Barney Architects and Juan Gabriel Moreno Architects unveil their plans for "Satellite One," the expansion project of the O'Hare International Airport that will transform it to "a frictionless experience for travelers,” and it will accommodates various aircraft types, enhancing operational efficiency at one of the nation’s busiest airports.

The Exchange by SOM

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SOM unveils its plans for the mass-timber New York Climate Exchange which will be covered with a solar panel-covered canopy

Working in partnership with Stony Brook University, the leading public research institute in New York, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), MNLA, Buro Happold, and Langan Engineering will erect a new, net-zero campus to address the climate crisis.

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The recently opened terminal at Kansas City International Airport by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is thoughtfully designed to be ‘the most accessible terminal in the world’

Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM) have transformed passenger experience with its new terminal at Kansas City International Airport, based on an all-encompassing, sustainable design that uses local materials to create a terminal that is comfortable, convenient, and welcoming to all.

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With minimal and elegant forms, the most recent additions to LMU’s campus by SOM provide dynamic spaces for media production and performance, including an innovative outdoor performance stage

Two new structures designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) are now complete on Loyola Marymount University’s Westchester campus: the Howard B. Fitzpatrick, which is the dynamic new home of the undergraduate School of Film and Television, and the open-air Drollinger Family Stage, an outdoor lecture and performance space at the heart of the campus.

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Alluding to significant elements of Islamic culture, OMA’s scenography for the first Islamic Arts Biennale is immersive, explorative, and inspiring

OMA's scenography for the first edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale combines a choreographed trajectory inspired by Qiblah and a desert-like landscape alluding to Hijrah.

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SOM and DCA Architects reveal plans for Singapore’s new 8 Shenton Way—the city’s first ‘supertall’ skyscraper with a design inspired by ‘bamboo forests’

SOM and DCA Architects have unveiled new plans for a supertall skyscraper in Singapore for East Asian firm Perennial Holdings Private Limited, which features a 305m stepped structure rising from a plant-filled base with a series of voids along the facade that was designed to resemble a "bamboo forest."

One Centennial Yard by SOM

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SOM and GVSA’s new One Centennial Yards to be a ground-up tower realized as part of a massive $5B Atlanta redevelopment planned by Foster + Partners

Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in partnership with Goode Van Slyke Architecture (GVSA), the new 28-story Centennial Yards for developers Centennial Yards Company and CIM Group takes the form of three slender glass towers fused together by a series of open-air terraces on each floor of the building and will be a ground-up tower realized as part of a massive $5B USD Atlanta redevelopment project master planned by Foster + Partners.

The Wild Mile by SOM

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SOM’s Doug Voigt transforms a 17-acre formerly industrialized human-made branch of the Chicago River into an eco-park that serves people, wildlife, and the environment

Doug Voigt and his design team at SOM have created a new 17-acre floating eco-park called “The Wild Mile”—a new environment for habitat, education, and recreation on the Chicago River.

Chicago Spire by Santiago Calatrava

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Santiago Calatrava’s 600-meter spiral tower in Chicago officially dead as David Child’s twin towers begin construction this Fall

What was destined to be the magnificent tallest new skyscraper in the United States by European Prize for Architecture laureate Santiago Calatrava has now met its sad and sealed fate.

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SOM and Raafat Miller Consulting tapped to reimagine a 200m EGP visitor experience for Egypt’s Pyramids at Giza

Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) and the local Egyptian practice Raafat Miller Consulting (RMC), together with lighting engineers Misr Company for Sound & Light and Tourism Development, have been named by OSL for Entertainment Projects, an Orascom Investment Holding company to revamp and refine the visitor experience for the popular Sound & Light show at the historic UNESCO World Heritage site of the Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza, Egypt.

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