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Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) Formed in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings; in 1939 they were joined by John O. Merrill SOM has completed over 10,000 projects around the nation and in more than 50 countries around the world and maintains offices in all over the world

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Freedom Tower Trump International Hotel and Tower Burj Dubai San Francisco International Terminal, Sears Tower First Wisconsin Plaza Haj Terminal, Jeddah Weyerhaeuser Headquarters John Hancock Center, Chicago Wells College Library, Aurora Air Force Academy Chapel Lever House

One of the largest architectural firms More than 800 awards for quality and innovation

Expertise is in high-end commercial buildings SOM was one of the first major modern American architectural firms to promote a corporate face of Architecture

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It was SOM that led the way to the widespread use of the modern internationalstyle or "glass box" skyscraper. Faithful following of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe’s ideas, Frank Lloyd Wright nicknamed them “The Three Blind Mies”.

LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENTS, CHICAGO, 1948, MIES VAN DER ROHE

Lever House , New York , 1951 , SOM

John Hancock tower, Sears Tower, Chicago , Chicago , 1965, SOM 1974, SOM

Seagram Building, New York, Mies Van der Rohe, 1954-58

Jinao Tower Nanjing, China

Pearl River Tower, China

Sophistication in building technology

Freedom Tower New York

Burj Dubai , 2009 , SOM Dubai, United Arab Emirates •Its design is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's vision for The Illinois, a mile high skyscraper designed for Chicago. •The building resembles the bundled tube form of the Sears Tower, but is not a tube structure. •Has 26 Terraces •"The tower goes up in steps in a spiraling way. In Islamic architecture, this symbolizes ascending towards the heavens." - Architect Adrien Smith,

Project Facts Completion Year: 2009 Expected Height : 818 m Floors : Around 162 Site Area: 1,121,707 ft2 Project Area: 5,000,000 ft2

Sears Tower, Chicago , 1974, SOM

A Y-shaped floor plan is inspired from the geometrics of the desert flower and the patterning systems employed in Islamic architecture (Onion Dome). Desert flower

Samsung Tower Palace 3 Seoul , SOM , 2004 According to SOM Burj Dubai was designed based on the 73floor Tower Palace Three, an allresidential building in Seoul, South Korea