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unusual facts about Skidmore, Owings and 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Henry Cotterill

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

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.

Lucy Skidmore Scribner

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

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).

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.

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.

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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