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SOM's City Design practice has made influential contributions to urban design approaches such as transit-oriented development, overbuild strategies and sustainable urbanism. In 1942, SOM was hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a highly confidential project: the planning of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. By 1945, the town was home to 75,000 people.
Construction and renovation are common circumstances for fires, which present particular difficulties to firefighters. Børsen fire, April 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark. During construction, buildings often do not have elements that would protect them from fire, such as walls and sprinkler systems. [1]
It becomes Darrow Road once again in the city of Stow and for its remaining length in Summit County, aside from within the Hudson city limits, where it is South and North Main Streets. In Cuyahoga and Lake Counties, State Route 91 is known as SOM Center Road, named for the fact that it runs through the centers of the original Solon, Orange, and ...
On Sept. 13, the Center City Revenue Finance Corp., an affiliate board of the Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC), approved a 10-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes for a 150-room Holiday Inn Express.
Knollwood Cemetery is a cemetery located at 1678 SOM Center Road in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Established in 1908, it is one of the largest cemeteries in Cuyahoga County. A mausoleum was completed in 1926, and an expansion finished in 1959. The cemetery's mausoleum, the largest in the state, boasts a number of windows by Tiffany & Co.
Miami Beach agreed to allow 15-story condo development behind Ritz-Carlton South Beach, in exchange for developers paying $4 million toward upgrading outdoor shopping mall.
The SOM Foundation, established in 1979, is an organization dedicated to advancing the capabilities of the design profession in addressing contemporary societal challenges. The Foundation’s grant programming was established in 1981 and currently offers five annual awards across the United States , Europe , and China .
It safely withstood one test, in October 2019, when a brush fire started along Interstate 405 near the Getty Center's access road, and burned 745 acres (3 square km), earning the name the Getty Fire.