
Supertall Models: SOM on the Ingenious Engineering Behind Record-Breaking Architecture
Architizer spoke with SOM about the relationship between engineering and architecture and whether or not engineers get the respect that they deserve.
Architizer spoke with SOM about the relationship between engineering and architecture and whether or not engineers get the respect that they deserve.
Palumbo withheld all physical records of the skyscraper, shrouding the last work of one of architect ure’s greatest figures in obscurity.
The emergence of New York–based practice Only If wasn’t so much a matter of “if” as “when.”
“My descent into architecture was really about putting all the pieces together.”
"We almost immediately started dreaming and combining our ideas.”
“We don’t have any conventional projects,” says Ryan King of FOAM.
“We don’t want people to quite know what they’re seeing,” says Young.
As New York City planners and developers continue to develop the long-neglected waterfronts along th e East River, a new proposal begins to take shape. In North Brooklyn, the former industrial site that was home to the Astral Oil Works refinery has finally been secured by the city after a contested battle to purchase the last…
“We were a part of defining the project, not merely the creative problem-solvers.”