An intriguing proposal from high-profile firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) imagines a skyscraper that could capture carbon and actually purify the air around it. The conceptual design, named Urban ...

A year after Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) first debuted Urban Sequoia, a prototypical high-rise capable of sequestering up to 1,000 tons of carbon each year with purifying the air around it, the ...

At COP27, the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) presented Urban Sequoia NOW—a design, readily constructible today, for a building that will ...

This past fall, COP26 opened the door for discussions about many environmental issues. However, few presentations addressed one elephant in the room — the fact that the construction industry ...

Watching the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) was a little depressing at times. There was so much "blah blah blah" from nations and corporations making vague pledges of net-zero ...

In terms of innovation of sustainable high-rise models within the architectural, engineering and construction industry, a key idea comes from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), which unveiled Urban ...

Buildings are a major part of the climate change problem. They require a lot of energy to build and operate, accounting for 74% of electricity consumption and a third of greenhouse gas emissions in ...

The world’s forests absorb an estimated 16 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or about double the 8.1 billion metric tons of CO 2 that forests emit each year, according to research ...