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7 unusual facts about Skidmore, Owings & Merrill


Douglas Durst

Located on 14th St and 5th Ave in Manhattan and scheduled for completion in 2014, the New School University center was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and developed by the Durst Organization.

Lorenzo Apicella

On graduating in 1981 he joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as assistant designer for the 70-storey Allied Bank Plaza Building in Houston, Texas.

Michel Mossessian

While working for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in their Chicago and London offices, Michel Mossessian, along with his business partner, Larry Oltmanns, made a successful bid, resulting in the design of the new NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Norman Fletcher

In 1943, he worked for the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill until leaving them in 1944 to work for another firm, Saarinen, Swanson, & Associates.

Peter Exley

Prior to founding his own firm in 1994, he worked for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago and London and with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia.

René van Zuuk

Directly after receiving his engineering diploma, he started working at the office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in London and Chicago (1988–1989).

Tugendhat chair

Gerry Griffith in Chicago created examples in the 1960s for use in the United Airlines Executive Office Building designed by Bruce Graham of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.


2012 Oneonta State Red Dragons women's soccer team

In 2012 edition of the Red Dragons played non-conference games against Skidmore and Williams, they also took part in the Nazareth Tournament to start the season against RIT as well as host school Nazareth.

Aaron S. Merrill

During his period he cruised extensively with the Chilean Navy, becoming the first foreigner to round the Horn in a Chilean warship.

BMA Tower

The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with steel-frame construction and clad in a contrasting grid of deeply inset black glass and white marble.

Boise, Portland, Oregon

It is approximately bounded by Interstate 5 on the west, N Skidmore St. on the north, NE Rodney Ave. on the east, and N Kerby St. and NE Fremont St. on the south.

Campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst

The school has several buildings (constructed in the 1960s and 70s) of importance in the Modernist style, including the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center and Hotel designed by Marcel Breuer, the Southwest Residential Area designed by Hugh Stubbins Jr, The Fine Arts Center by Kevin Roche, the W.E.B. Du Bois Library by Edward Durell Stone, and Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

Charles E. Merrill

A friendship with United States District Judge John M. Woolsey earned him the distinction of being one of the two people consulted to read the book Ulysses by James Joyce to help Woolsey to determine if the ban on the book should remain in place.

Merrill's grandson, Peter A. Magowan, was President and CEO of Safeway Inc. and also the former managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants.

Charles E. Merrill, Jr.

As if anticipating his two older siblings would survive him, James Merrill dedicated his 1985 collection of poems Late Settings "for my sister Doris and my brother Charles." (His 1957 novel The Seraglio, widely read as a portrait of Charles E. Merrill's womanizing ways, was dedicated to the poet's ten nephews and nieces.) James Merrill shared with his brother a lifelong love of opera, an experience he wrote about in his 1993 memoir, A Different Person.

The Merrill Trust donated the money used to endow Merrill College at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1968.

Charles Merrill

Charles E. Merrill, Jr. (born 1920), American educator, author and philanthropist

Charles E. Merrill (1885–1956), American philanthropist, stockbroker and co-founder of Merrill Lynch & Company

Charles W. Cole

Cole was also involved with the Committee on the National Security Organization, American Cancer Society, U.S. Air Force, Merrill Foundation for the Advancement of Financial Knowledge, Educational Testing Service, and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association.

Chongming County

Once the most rural area of Shanghai, it is now the subject of a major urban and agricultural master-plan led by Philip Enquist of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Edward C. Merrill, Jr

Under his administration from 1969 to 1983, the College made preparations for the expanded population of deaf students due to the Rubella epidemic in the 1960s.

Francis Skidmore

Francis Alfred Skidmore (1817 – 13 November 1896) was a British metalworker best known for high profile commissions including the glass and metal roof of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (1859), the Hereford Cathedral choir screen (1862) and the Albert Memorial (1866–1873) in London.

George Merrill

George F. Merrill (1847–?), former member of the Wisconsin Legislature

Henry Cotterill

His grave is covered by a large memorial brass made by Skidmore of Coventry.

John Leo Blair

Several letters and notes exist in company archives, including a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt, a few from Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and others from Charles Merrill of Merrill & Lynch, Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (one of Blair's very close friends) and others to support this entry.

John Merrill

John O. Merrill, American architect and structural engineer, 1896-1975

John P. Merrill, American physician, researcher and Harvard professor, 1917-1984

John O. Merrill

Oak Ridge – Merrill was in charge of developing the secret research campus at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

John P. Merrill

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about John Merrill, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 20+ works in 30+ publications in 3 languages and 400+ library holdings .

Joseph Merrill

Joseph F. Merrill, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Kidney transplantation

The Boston transplantation, performed on December 23, 1954, at Brigham Hospital was performed by Joseph Murray, J. Hartwell Harrison, John P. Merrill and others.

Lucy Skidmore Scribner

Lucy Skidmore Scribner (July 4, 1853 - May 3, 1931) was the founder of Skidmore College.

Nicholas Mayall

However, he took a hiatus from pursuing his advanced degree and went to work as a human computer at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1929–1931, where he assisted luminaries such as Edwin Hubble, Paul W. Merrill, and Milton L. Humason.

However, in 1942, Sproul asked Paul W. Merrill from Mt. Wilson to succeed Wright, but was turned down.

Pharaohs in the Bible

Eugene H. Merrill has suggested that Senusret II may be the unnamed Pharaoh mentioned in the biblical story of Joseph.

Rockwell Center

The architectural firm Skidmore, Owings, Merril carried out the design under the direction of former Design Partner Larry Oltmanns.

S-FRAME Software Inc.

S-FRAME Analysis and S-CONCRETE were used to create structural models of the Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest building, designed by Chicago, Illinois-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM).

Skidmore, Missouri

Author Harry N. MacLean recounted the incident and its background in a bestselling and award-winning book, In Broad Daylight.

On December 16, 2004, Skidmore was once again the focus of national attention when Bobbie Jo Stinnett was murdered and had her unborn baby cut from her womb.

Slade Architecture

before starting his own firms James worked as an architect at Gluckman Mayner Architects, Polshek Partnership, Rick Mather Architects and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

Stamford Cone

The structure, which entirely consists of stained glass by British artist Brian Clarke, was designed by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and engineered by Dewhurst MacFarlane & Partners.

Walter C. Alvarez

Alvarez was married to the former Harriet Skidmore Smythe and the couple had four children: Gladys, Luis, Robert and Bernice.

World Trade Center site

The tower was a collaboration between Studio Daniel Libeskind and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architect David Childs.


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