Type Corporate Offices Completed October 1989 Cost 55 million USD Owner IBM Architect I. M. Pei | Location Somers, NY Opened July 1984 Architectural style Modern architecture Construction started July 1984 | |
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Other dimensions 750 acres (3.0 km; 1.17 sq mi) Floor area 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m) Architecture firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Similar IBM Hakozaki Facility, Hursley House, 1250 René‑Lévesque, One Atlantic Center, AMA Plaza | ||
The IBM Somers Office Complex is a complex of five office buildings owned and occupied by IBM in Somers, New York, United States. Situated on a 730-acre (3.0 km2) campus, I. M. Pei designed pyramid of glass structures house regional headquarters for the IBM corporation.
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Map of IBM Somers Office Complex, Somers, NY 10578, USA
Begun in 1984, the modernist 1,200,000-square-foot (110,000 m2) complex has been described as a "futuristic fortress".
History
The complex was originally conceived in 1983 following the successful approval of a PepsiCo corporate campus nearby. Constructed between 1984 and 1989, the $55 million complex allowed consolidation of 3,000 employees previously spread among several facilities in the surrounding area. The complex has overcome initial complaints over excessive water usage and light pollution a business fixture in the Somers area.
On September 29, 2016, IBM sold the property to a company called 294 Route 100, LLC (the address of the property) for $31.75M. The transaction was recorded on October 18, 2016. At the time of sale, the property was assessed with a full value of $122,150,943 and taxable value of $16,185,000.
Somers Songsters
In 2003, Somers Songsters recorded the "IBM One Hundred Percent Club" song, to the tune of "I've Been Working On The Railroad", for the archives at the Somers complex as part of the IBM music reference room effort.
Layout
Approximately 2,000 employees in Global Services, Software, and the Systems and Technology Groupoccupy 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m2) of office space in 730 acres (3.0 km2) hilltop campus consisting of four triangle-shaped main buildings and a central service building, each topped with a glass pyramid.
Awards
In 1990 the Somers complex staff was given IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition "For the development of the multilayer ceramic thermal conduction module for high performance computers."