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Presented By: Manish Singh B.Arch Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) Formed in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings; in 1939 they were joined by John O. Merrill One of the largest architectural firms Expertise is in high-end commercial buildings 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 More than 800 awards for quality and innovation SOM was one of the first major modern American architectural firms to promote a corporate face of Architecture 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

It was SOM that led the way to the widespread use of the modern international- style or "glass box" skyscraper. Lever House, New York, 1951, SOM 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

Seagram Building, New York, Mies Van der Rohe, John Hancock tower, Chicago, 1965, SOM Sears Tower, Chicago, 1974, SOM

Jinao Tower Nanjing, China Sophistication in building technology Pearl River Tower, China Freedom Tower New York

Burj Dubai, 2009, SOM Dubai, United Arab Emirates The building resembles the bundled tube form of the Sears Tower, but is not a tube structure. Has 26 Terraces Its design is reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's vision for The Illinois, a mile high skyscraper designed for Chicago. Project Facts Completion Year: 2009 Expected Height : 818 m Floors : Around 162 Site Area: 1,121,707 ft 2 Project Area: 5,000,000 ft 2 Sears Tower, Chicago, 1974, SOM "The tower goes up in steps in a spiraling way. In Islamic architecture, this symbolizes ascending towards the heavens." - Architect Adrien Smith,

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 73- floor Tower Palace Three, an all- residential building in Seoul, South Korea

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