This is a SOM brouschure, both sides:

http://tinypic.com/dy6ets.jpg

http://tinypic.com/dy6f7t.jpg


Love the (unfortunatelly unbuild) 574m Kowloon Landmark Tower :eek:

They're buildings are nice!

Yeah, Kowloon Landmark Tower is amazing, but didn't get approved. Instead they're building Union Square Phase 7.

http://www.som.com/resources/projects/3/2/3/9931100990611rgb_1198.jpg
Kowloon MTR Tower/ Kowloon Landmark Tower

a lot of other supertalls by som, for example this one

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/altind/P1000776.jpg


and this one

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/altind/P1000774.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v705/altind/P1000773.jpg

Dubai/SZR and Dubai Marina. approved.

I Prefer US7 though. Sears and Jin Mao and Burj dubai are my favourite from that list

you prefer US7 over BD?

Wow very interesting.

i love the kowloon landmark tower, john hancock, and jin mao... the others are great too, but those would be my top 3

you prefer US7 over BD?

He probably meant that he prefere US7 over Kowloon MTR Tower which was one of the proposals of the competition. US7 won the competition.

There's a lot of beauties by SOM. Shame that 7 South Dearborn is dead and they didn't recycle the Kowloon MTR tower for some other site.

Wouldn't it be awesome to work for them.

very nice!

I'm working on a documentary, I was wondering if people could post any information and pictures they have of 7South Dearborn? That would be a big help! Thanks

there great,i think that they're the best at supertalls but jin mao looks kinda ugly and dirty.

It looks like they are having a change of style, less of post modern and more of international(form)

there great,i think that they're the best at supertalls but jin mao looks kinda ugly and dirty.

I guess you've never seen the beautiful and complicated facade up close:

http://www.focusmag.gr/id/files/12418/SAGAH%20JIN%20MAO%20TOWER.jpg

I'm working on a documentary, I was wondering if people could post any information and pictures they have of 7South Dearborn? That would be a big help! Thanks

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9270/2283289fk.jpg
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/8076/2283275wp.jpg

112 floors
1567 ft
433 foot antenna

If that tower was built, it would be depicted in this following pic.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/198/chialt3nf.png

spire wonderland :D
no honesty looks good, but the spires are little bit too long

spire wonderland :D
no honesty looks good, but the spires are little bit too long

I actually find 7SD's spire very graceful and elegant and 7SD would of been a better addition to Chicago's skyline than Fordham Spire. :)

Spires make supertalls look better I think. It makes the top look so much more natural

If that tower was built, it would be depicted in this following pic.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/198/chialt3nf.png

Holy shit! This would look so f****ing good!
The best city on earth. Why did Chicago cancell the other projects?

I don't remember quite how both died off. The Skyneedle wasn't that real to begin with in a sense. I don't know how the financing and stuff went around, and I think the Gulf War took its toll on the project. Then Cesar Pelli made the Petronas instead.

7SD was more of a reality but that also fell through the cracks somehow.

I actually find 7SD's spire very graceful and elegant and 7SD would of been a better addition to Chicago's skyline than Fordham Spire. :)

Those aren't spires on 7SD, they're TV antennae. As such, they were designed to the most efficient height and their length had nothing to do with beauty.

Why did Chicago cancel the other projects?

The City of Chicago didn't cancel anything. The developers lost their financing so there wasn't any money to build those towers.

Yup, SOM designs spectacular skyscrapers. One of my favorite firms along with KPF.

Spires make supertalls look better I think. It makes the top look so much more natural
that depends on which skyscraper youre talking about ;)

burj dubai for example.

cooool towers :)

Wish they would build one in Toronto.....

I do have to admit that most of the prolific skyscrapers does come from SOM.

Wish they would build one in Toronto.....

SOM along with Calatrava designed Toronto's Canada Trust Tower and the BCE Atrium.

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/547/3309td_tower.jpg
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/photo/toronto/slides/04bceplace.jpg

And SOM also designed the Minto Midtown Towers which the shorter tower is now U/C.

http://www.urbandb.com/canada/ontario/toronto/28toronto-mintomidtown06.jpg

I love this tower! :eek2: Why was it not built? :?




http://www.som.com/resources/projects/3/2/3/9931100990611rgb_1198.jpg

:hi: Can any of you please tell me where the tallest operating hotel in the world is located?

All hotel building?

I used to work in BCE Place in Toronto and knew that it was Calatrava but had no idea that the towers were SOM, it is truly my favourite place in Toronto and it isn't as well known as it should be. I would recommend to anyone to come to the atrium. It is wonderful there, it always makes you feel like you're outside but not at the same time, a safe feeling, very open. Especially in winter. This was a genius idea instead of just leaving an alley between the towers, as well they are defintley the most distinctive skyscrapers in the city, not the tallest but the ones that stand out the most.

Tallest operating hotel? a full hotel building would be the burj al arab, but if you're interested in staying in the highest hotel room that would be in Jin Mao

:hi: Can any of you please tell me where the tallest operating hotel in the world is located?

The current tallest full-hotel building in the world is Burj Al Arab in Dubai measuring in at 1,053 ft. *Excluding Ryugyong in NoKo

http://www.experiencedubai.co.uk/images/large_burj_L_1.jpg

:hi: Can any of you please tell me where the tallest operating hotel in the world is located?


jin mao,china

This link tells more on that tower: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/545499.stm

Plus, check out this info:

Work To Begin On World's Tallest Hotel
Construction is scheduled to commence on what will be the world's tallest hotel on February 1, 2004 in Dubai.
At 333 metres, the Abbco Rotana Hotel will surpass Burj Al Arab for the tallest operating hotel in the world, which is also in Dubai. The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is 330 metres tall, but has not been completed. The hotel will be 72 stories and contain 684 guest rooms.


Source Skyscrapers.com

and............

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I27995-2004Dec26L

Ritz-Carlton Plans to Build World's Tallest Hotel
Monday, December 27, 2004; Page E02


The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., the Chevy Chase-based operator of a chain of luxury hotels, said it plans to build a 300-room hotel in Hong Kong in 2009 that would be the tallest hotel in the world.

The company also said it agreed to build a second hotel in the heart of Shanghai's business district.



Ritz-Carlton plans to build a 300-room, 1,574-foot-tall hotel in Hong Kong. The company is also building a hotel in Shanghai. (Ritz-carlton Hotel Co)



Both hotels are to be owned by Sun Hung Kai Properties of Hong Kong and China, one of the largest real estate companies in the world.

The 1,574-foot-tall Ritz-Carlton would soar above the Hong Kong skyline and harbor from above Kowloon Station on the Hong Kong Airport Railway line.

The company has operated another hotel since 1993 in Hong Kong.

The new hotel is to occupy the upper 13 floors of a 100-story tower designed by the architectural firm of Kohn Pederson Fox Associates.

The site would include a major mixed-use development, including condominiums, office space, retail and serviced apartments.

"Asia continues to provide the best strategic growth opportunity for the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company," said Simon F. Cooper, president and chief operating officer.

The Ritz-Carlton operates 58 hotels in the North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

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^^I wouldn't actually call US7, "The World's Tallet Hotel" when its complete since they are only occupying 13 floors.

Yeah, i know, but the hotel portion is at least on the top 13 floors. ;) :D

SOM has it's share of shit buildings too though.

SOM has it's share of shit buildings too though.


Yes it does, but in my opinion, it accounts for only a fraction of it's extensive portfolio.

This firm is all about the concept, planning, and engineering, of skyscrapers. And it's list of engineers and architects, from the past to presant, are allready written into the skyscraper's history.

I don't know the year, but SOM designed a 36 story hotel for San Francisco that was never built, it set back from the street for about the first 10 or so floors, and then (as though soaring) this 25 story wall of glass, cantalevers out over itself, the utility core remaining vertical through the angel's. A spactacular concept,

And then the never built, Sears, Franklin Center. A 67 story, 1.4 million sq.ft., 800+ footer, across the street from the Sears Tower. would have given the Sears tower some good company

"I don't know the year, but SOM designed a 36 story hotel for San Francisco that was never built, it set back from the street for about the first 10 or so floors, and then (as though soaring) this 25 story wall of glass, cantalevers out over itself, the utility core remaining vertical through the angel's. A spactacular concept,

And then the never built, Sears, Franklin Center. A 67 story, 1.4 million sq.ft., 800+ footer, across the street from the Sears Tower. would have given the Sears tower some good company"

Whoa didn't know about those. I suppose renderings are elusive?

jin mao,china

nope, burj al arab, uae.

I love this tower! :eek2: Why was it not built? :?
http://www.som.com/resources/projects/3/2/3/9931100990611rgb_1198.jpg

Probably because the developers/owners/city council prefered the current version of US7. I actually agree with them, the current version US7 fits better with the surrounding buildings of Union Square, but it would be awesome if they built that tower somewhere else!

yea SOM is also known for cutting and pasting designs.

I wouldn't call SOM's design for the Freedom Tower shit but it sure is disappointing and is noweher near the elegance of Foster's plan for the WTC. :(

Probably because the developers/owners/city council prefered the current version of US7. I actually agree with them, the current version US7 fits better with the surrounding buildings of Union Square, but it would be awesome if they built that tower somewhere else!

Yeah, in Baltimore, Maryland. :D Wouldn't that shake up the skyline?! :D ;)

so whats there best supertall,other than burj dubai...

imo it must be al sharq tower.
and of course Kowloon Landmark Tower if it was built...
jin mao is also great!

:banana:

so whats there best supertall,other than burj dubai...

I wouldn't say the best, but my favourite SOM building would be Jin mao Tower. It fuses the ancient Chinese temple design into a skyscraper and you can't truly appreciate it unless you've seen the facade up close. :)

http://www.focusmag.gr/id/files/12418/SAGAH%20JIN%20MAO%20TOWER.jpg

I'd go with Jin Mao followed by Al Sharq and Burj Dubai.

SOM has it's share of shit buildings too though.
Like which ones?