Legendary architecture practice SOM presents 40+ of their most transformative works in the sixth and latest volume, SOM: Works by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 2009-2019. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is one of the most influential architecture studios in the world, with a body of work that includes some of the most important buildings and urban designs of our time. SOM: Works by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 2009-2019 is the sixth and latest volume in the series to cover every era of SOM’s history, from the iconic Modernist works of the 1950s to the projects of today. Documenting SOM’s global body of work—which ranges from a prototype for a biophilic breathing wall to the new headquarters for NATO in Brussels—SOM: Works by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 2009-2019 demonstrates how SOM has come to hold its unparalleled position as a steward of international architecture. This new volume details SOM’s approach to designing impactful, complex projects in a globalized world—an approach which marries a deep bench of global expertise with a commitment to honoring culture and people in the communities where SOM works. In this volume, explore SOM’s mission to address the most urgent challenge of our time: climate change. Working in pursuit of a zero-carbon built world, SOM’s designers are pioneering new approaches to adaptive reuse, cultivating emerging technologies including machine learning, inventing new tools to optimize building performance, and beyond. Organized chronologically, the monograph encompasses SOM’s most significant projects of the past decade, across all building types and locations, highlighting the studio’s unique ability to design and execute complex, technical, and efficient structures. The roster includes Burj Khalifa—the tallest building in the world, Manhattan Loft Gardens, a new vertical community in London, the twisting Ningbo Bank of China headquarters, the ‘floating cube’ new Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles, the master plan for the Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island, the reimagined Strand Theatre in San Francisco, Chicago’s Optimo Hat Company Headquarters, Denver Union Station, and of course, One World Trade Center. Through in-depth essays, architecture writer and critic Sam Lubell dives into SOM’s radically rigorous approach to design in today’s complex world, exploring the unique ideas cultivated within the studio and how those ideas are transformed into transformative spaces across the globe. As with the previous five volumes in the series, renowned design studio Pentagram led the book’s design in collaboration with SOM. Featuring 500 images, the book includes thorough profiles and never-before-published photographs, plans, and drawings of the studio’s most recent works.

Som, an acronym for Speculations on mind, is a speculative theory of the fundamental physiological structure and operational nature of a mind. After the essential background information and basic premises of Som are given, the theory is progressively developed to attempt to account for the manifestation of subjective feelings, awareness, consciousness, sensory and mental qualia, personness, thought and reasoning processes, memory, imagination, dreams, moods, emotions, and numerous other diverse phenomena within our own personal reality. Som has been additionally provided with a brief addendum titled, Sor, an acronym for Speculations on reality. Sor considers the question of whether or not there might be an existent, underlying, supersensible reality which is possibly causal to the subsistence of our spatiotemporal continuum, and so ourselves. If you choose to travel into and through the imaginary realms of Som and Sor, you will likely realize at the end of your journey that you have gone full circle, and so returned to exactly where you started, within yourself, but then having a new and perhaps unforeseen ability to view your personal reality in a wholly different and surprisingly practical way.

For første gang er en monografi viet helt til det psykologiske, strategiske og operasjonelle aspektet av en mann som har klart å samle en fabelaktig formue og slå markedet år etter år i så lang tid at det ikke virker ekte. Å tenke og investere som Warren Buffett kan endelig åpne dørene til en verden som er like spektakulær som den er unnvikende. I denne boken lærer du raskt det teoretiske grunnlaget, anekdoter og teknikker for å kjøpe investeringene dine intelligent, skape beskyttelse mot spekulative markedsbevegelser.

This nuanced portrait of Gordon Bunshaft and his work for the architecture firm SOM explores his role in defining the built aesthetic of corporate America.

Det var något med Oogy som gjorde honom speciell. Kanske var det att han saknade ett öra, kanske hans asymmetriska ansikte eller hans ivriga, energiska sätt att komma oss till mötes. Vad det än var, lyckades han övertyga Larry Levin och hans två söner, Dan och Noah, att adoptera honom och ta med honom hem samma dag. En olycksalig, ful valp som hade använts som "bait dog" för träning av kamphundar, men mirakulöst överlevt efter att polisen hittat honom blodig och sönderbiten. Vanligtvis avlivar man hundar som denna, men av någon anledning opererades istället valpen och kunde så småningom få ett nytt liv hos familjen Levin. Namnet valpen fick var Oogy - en kärleksfull uttalsvariant av ordet "ugly" - ful. "En fantastisk historia om en oförglömlig hund. Gör plats i ditt hjärta, för du kommer bli förälskad i Oogy. Och i denna bok." GARY DAVID GOLDBERG, skapare av Fem i familjen och författare av boken Sit, Ubu, Sit "Oogys historia bekräftar det Dewey lärt mig - att ett djur, även om det är skadat och på alla sätt uträknat, kan sprida otroligt mycket glädje då det hamnar i en kärleksfull familj." VICKI MYRON, författarinna till Bibliotekskatten Dewey "Varmt rekommenderad till alla som behöver inspiration, vilket ju ALLA behöver." LIBRARY JOURNAL "Hjärtevärmande." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Oogy är en oväntad historia, full av överraskningar och egenheter. Den är till brädden fylld med kärlek och de möjligheter som livet ger." DOG FANCY MAGAZINE

Emu Nsɛm Nnianimu 1. Ɛsɛ sɛ Yɛhunu na Yɛgye Yohane Suboni Som Dwumadie di (Marko 1:1-2) 2. Yohane Suboni Anni Ne ho Hwammɔ (Mateo 11:1-14) 3. Yohane Suboni a Ɔnam Tenenee Kwan so Baeɛ (Mateo 17:1-13) 4. Hwɛ Yohane Suboni Som Dwumadie! (Luka 1:17-23, 67-80) 5. Momma Yɛnnye Yɛn Ani Wɔ Onyankopɔn Animuonyam ho (Yohane 1:1-14) 6. Wonim Onyankopɔn Nkoa Baanu no Som Dwumadie Anaa? (Yohane 1:30-36) 7. Adɛn Nti na na Ɛsɛ Sɛ Wɔbɔ Yesu Asu? (Yohane 3:22-36) 8. Ma Nokorɛ Asɛmpa ne Yesu Tenenee Adwuma Ntrɛ (Mateo 3:1-17) 9. Ayɔnkofa a Ɛwɔ Yohane Suboni Dwumadie ne Yɛn Bɔne Ho Mpata Asɛmpa No Ntam (Mateo 21:32) 10. Yesu a Ɔbaeɛ Sɛ Ɔrebɛpepa Yɛn Bɔne (Mateo 3:13-17) 11. “Hwɛ, Meresoma Me Bɔfoɔ” (Marko 1:1-5) 12. Momma Yɛmfa Nteaseɛ a Yɛwɔ fa Yohane Suboni Ho Nnye Yesu Nni (Luka 1:1-17)