Tag Archives: Owings & Merrill

L.A.’s arts & media school gets two new minimally designed, functional structures

December 12, 2022

Loyola Marymount University’s Westchester campus’ new School of Film and Television facility, and an outdoor performance stage are both designed with rich materials supporting a minimalist aesthetic and prioritizing functionality to promote the broader learning purpose and connections.

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San Mateo County’s hybrid mass timber HQ aims to massively cut embodied carbon

October 24, 2022

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)’s design for San Mateo County’s headquarters, which is currently under construction in the Silicon Valley, features a hybrid mass timber building, to achieve an 85 percent reduction in embodied carbon—which is greater than the 65 to 75 percent reduction generally offered by typical mass timber structures.

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Ground breaks on City of Chicago’s South Side commercial corridor project

October 17, 2022

Recently, the City of Chicago broke ground on a mixed-use, community-focused development in the Englewood neighborhood, starting the first phase with the adaptive reuse of a historic firehouse, a newly constructed community space, and multiple site improvements for better connectivity and pedestrian access across the site.

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SOM renews Massachusetts’ science center for a net-zero future

October 7, 2022

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has renovated and expanded the Wellesley College Science Complex, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, improving its sustainability performance to help the college achieve its 2040 carbon neutrality goal.

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Alibaba HQ design acknowledges ‘the only constant is change’

August 22, 2022

The design for Alibaba’s Shanghai headquarters by the U.S. firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) reveals a distinctive, modular layout reliant on expansive column-free, long-span spaces and a variety of enclosed areas to accommodate a diversity of workstation layouts to suit expanding, contracting and overlapping teams.

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