Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP is one of the leading architecture, engineering, and interior architecture firms in the United States. Since its founding, SOM has completed more than 6,000 architecture, interior architecture, and planning projects located in more than 50 countries around the world.


airports, commercial offices, corporate offices, courthouses, educational facilities, government offices, healthcare facilities, high-rise towers, hotels, interiors, law offices, master planning, mid-rise towers, mixed-use, museums, office campuses, performing arts centers, renovations, residential, stadiums, super-tall buildings, transportation/rail, and urban planning.


We are committed to achieving design excellence, while satisfying the needs of each client and reaching solutions that respond to the specific context of each project. We have structured SOM to ensure that all projects are executed to the highest standard of design quality. Each project is assigned a multi-disciplinary staff that includes the necessary depth and breadth of talent and expertise to create a unique design solution for each client. We believe that design grows out of its time and place as much as it develops from the ideas of clients and building programs.


Since its founding, SOM has received more than 700 awards including the first Firm Award, awarded in 1961 by the American Institute of Architects for design excellence. Honored again in 1996, SOM is the only firm to win this award twice.