This famed architecture firm is bringing rare designs from its archive back to life

Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, the giant of corporate office architecture in the mid-20th century, has its fingerprints on some of the most iconic buildings in American business. From Sears Tower in Chicago to IBM’s New York headquarters to Lever House in midtown Manhattan, these towers became skyline definers, and symbols of postwar American economic power. But zoom in from those skyline views, and you’ll see that SOM‘s designs were more encompassing than the buildings them...