Presented for the first time in Scandinavia, ‘Sky’s the Limit’ takes you into the realm of skyscrapers and large building structures designed by the internationally renowned architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM). Founded in Chicago in 1936, SOM has completed more than 10,000 projects in over 50 countries including a number of iconic buildings such as Lever House, Willis Tower, John Hancock Center and the world’s tallest building – Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Among the firms current projects, Karlatornet in Gothenburg will be Scandinavia’s tallest building when completed in 2020.
Presented through sketches, renderings and scale models of notable skyscrapers, the exhibition captures SOM’s innovative integration of structural expression and architectural design that is a defining tenet of the firm’s work. This close collaboration has produced distinctive engineering solutions to contemporary architectural challenges—expanding the parameters of building construction.
Okay, so you have a rough time pointing out cities like Guangzhou, Dalian, Chongqing and Kunming on a blind mind op China. No worries, you are not alone. However, now would be a good time to start dropping some pins on your mental map as these are the places that lead the chart of the tallest newest skyscrapers.
For Los Angeles, let’s call 2016 the year of the skyscraper. The 73-story Wilshire Grand Center was crowned with a decorative spire that reaches a height of 1,100 feet, making it the tallest building in Los Angeles. It edged out the US Bank Tower for that title, but not to be outdone, the bank tower made news headlines around the world with the opening of a hair-raising glass slide attached to its exterior, dropping from the 70th to the 69th floor—nearly 1,000 feet in the air. Meanwhile, developers, by our count, filed plans over the past 12 months to construct nearly one dozen impressively tall towers. More than half would rise above 40 stories, earning them the designation of “skyscraper.” The tallest of these would climb 60 floors, so for now, it’s looking like the Wilshire Grand and US Bank Tower will remain the queens of LA’s skyline. But to get a sense of just how much that skyline is likely to change, we’ve mapped all of the skyscrapers and tall buildings proposed just this year.
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