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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill  Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois, USA photographed from Lake Michigan. Designed by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, it was completed in 1974 and was the world's tallest building until 1996, when the title was gained by the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. | US firm of architects, founded by Louis Skidmore (1897–1962), Nathaniel A Owings (1903–1984), and John O Merrill (1896–1975). The firm's earliest work of note was Lever House, New York (1952), designed by Gordon Bunshaft, a curtain-walled skyscraper recalling the work of Mies van der Rohe. The partnership later moved away from a strict functionalist approach with buildings such as the John Hancock Tower, Chicago (1970), where diagonal wind-bracing is used to decorative effect. |
| More recently the office has been active internationally in projects such as London's Broadgate (begun 1986) and the Canary Wharf development. |
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