Journal: SOM and the Evolution of ­Skyscraper Construction

John Hancock Center, Chicago 1969
With its 80 years of experience in bringing together architecture and structural engineering the designs of the Chicago-based firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) remain groundbreaking to this day, particularly in the construction of gigantic skyscrapers, the so-called „supertalls“. The fourth volume of the DETAIL engineering series presents the approaches, the roots and the theoretical background of the SOM Structural...
John Hancock Center, Chicago 1969