Tag Dave Burk

08-06-2022

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Aerial Walkway for Seattle-Tacoma Airport

International passengers arriving at Seattle-Tacoma Airport in the United States will be greeted by a scenic and impressive overhead walkway designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). A replacement for the previous structure built 50 years ago, the new walkway is certainly the most complex intervention at the airport in the last seventy years, and it offers a spectacular welcome to passengers arriving into the city.

20-04-2022

SOM 800 Fulton Market: new ways of living and working in Chicago

800 Fulton Market, the tower block designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), represents a bridge between the past and the future for the Chicago district of the same name. The building, which has obtained a number of important sustainability certifications, is a mixed-use office tower about 100 metres tall, with seven landscaped terraces and an advanced building management system.

17-02-2021

CTBUH names Urban Habitat Award Excellence Projects

In preparation for the 2021 edition of the Tall + Urban Innovation Conference, set to take place online on May 18 to 20 of this year, the CTBUH (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) revealed the winning “excellence” projects in various categories of its prestigious awards. After the buildings have been categorised according to height, the new excellence winners are skyscrapers selected for the technological and construction aspects adopted, for their intended use or for the Urban Habitat category.

21-11-2018

Architecture for childhood: BIG designs the first WeGrow school

BIG and WeWork designed the first WeGrow school in New York City, in which architecture serves a new conscientious approach to education for children aged three to nine.