SOM

She has trained in architecture.

She goes to work for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

She gets some great jobs.

Skidmore does the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado.

Up for redevelopment.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill had done an amazing project for a central city bus station, which involved the demolition of, you know, maybe up to a dozen city blocks, both sides of the river.

Unbelievably, with an under-the-river connection to make north city buses and south city buses easier to connect to.

I mean, a, a mega project.

But also like so many good museums, like the Field Museum, the Science and Industry.

I'm big into architecture, so one of the world's biggest architecture firms is out of Chicago, SOM, and I love the Sears Tower.

So I've spent way too much time for someone that doesn't work there in that building I'm sure.

[laughs] That's why it's in my background too.

Okay.

And, uh, and there was another, there's a firm called, there's, there is a firm called Skidmore, Owings & Merrill that we've done a big exhibition on their historical works, and that's another great example of just incredibly provenance-heavy work that was never advertised or sold to the public that was furnishing enormous buildings across New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and, you know, Belgium, et cetera.

Mm-hmm.

And, um, that's, that's super underrated work that really just requires people nerding out on it to understand it and then understand where it lives and then to buy it.

And then, you know, he wanted to have a sort of light and trees and a skinny tower, that kind of thing.

And then gradually, David Childs of SOM really took over control of it.

But one of the problems with the One World Trade Center building, which I look at almost every day, is that it's really... defined by defensive architecture.

It has a 200-foot concrete base.