They have designed Sears Tower, Symphony Center and scores of other buildings that play a prominent role in the lives of cities from London to Los Angeles. They are known as the IBM of architecture… ...

Louis Skidmore, a founding partner of architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, died 54 years ago this month, according to an obituary in the New York Times.

It is fitting that 2009’s Chicagoans of the Year in architecture are in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). This was the year when Chicago celebrated the 100th annive… ...

Seventy years. Seventy years since Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings established their remarkably fecund partnership and, picking up one Mr. Merrill along the way, redefined what a modern ...

The marquee of the restored Watseka Theatre. The theater, which reopened in 1931, was designed by Louis Skidmore, the architect who designed the Sears Tower and The Hancock Building.

SOM, which was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings, has another tower planned for London – a 56-storey tower topped with a viewing gallery planned for the City called The Diamond.

Chuck Gomez always thought the art-deco Watseka Theatre, designed by Louis Skidmore, would be a good investment. But from day one, he said, the theater that he bought 14 months ...

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company filed its plans for the first buildings in a massive Bronx housing complex 78 years ago this month. Parkchester came to include about 50 building ...