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The original four-armed design was changed to a three-armed design (120° apart). The outer walls are curved to allow multiple distinct views from single apartments. [2] This building's tall, curved, three-wing 'Y' shape was an inspiration for the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates by Chicago-born architect Adrian Smith. [3]
Smith spent many years at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Chicago, beginning in 1967 and was a Design Partner from 1980 to 2003 and a Consulting Design Partner from 2003 to 2006. In 2006, he founded Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), which is dedicated to the design of high-performance, energy-efficient and sustainable ...
It surpassed the city's John Hancock Center as the building with the highest residence (apartment or condo) in the world, and briefly held this title until the completion of the Burj Khalifa. The design of the building includes, from the ground up, retail space, a parking garage, a hotel and condominiums. The 339-room hotel opened for business ...
The primary designer of Jeddah Tower is Chicago-based architect Adrian Smith of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS + GG), [12] the same architect who designed the Burj Khalifa while at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), [26] where he worked for almost 40 years. [27] AS + GG was formed in 2006 by Adrian Smith, Gordon Gill, and Robert ...
The architectural firm who designed the building was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the same firm who designed Chicago's Willis Tower and John Hancock Center and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The building was designed with a "sawtooth edge," and incorporates six corners onto the southeast face of the building. [ 4 ]
William Frazier Baker (born October 9, 1953) is an American structural engineer known for engineering the Burj Khalifa, [1] the world's tallest building/man-made structure and a number of other well known buildings. He is currently a structural engineering partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP (SOM).
AS+GG was founded in Chicago in 2006, by Adrian Smith, Gordon Gill, and Robert Forest after they left the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM). [1] Taking their experience on large, mixed-use projects, [2] AS+GG focuses on the design of high-performance, energy-efficient, and sustainable architecture on an international scale. [3] "
The Willis Tower was designed by architect Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. [149] Graham and Khan designed the building as nine square "tubes", clustered in a 3×3 matrix forming a square base with 225-foot (69 m) sides. [19] [20] The building's rentable area is 3,810,000 sq ft (354,000 m ...