26-06-2013

Studio Gang Architects. National Design Award for Architecture Design.

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Studio Gang Architects. National Design Award for Architecture Design. 
Studio Gang Architects, lead by Jeanne Gang, FAIA, recently won the prestigious National Design Award in Architecture Design. These important American awards were conceived by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honour lasting achievement in American design and are bestowed in recognition of excellence, innovation and enhancement of the quality of life.



The international practice is headquartered in Chicago, and was established in 1997. Founder and principal, Jeanne Gang uses architecture as a medium of active response to contemporary issues and their impact on human experiences. Each of her projects resonates with its specific site and culture while addressing larger global themes such as urbanization, climate, and sustainability.





The collective of architects, designers and thinkers – as Jeanne Gang likes to call her studio – is distinguished by a design approach that confronts its context and always seeks to engage with nature. This approach is used for projects on a wide range of scales, such as the award-winning Aqua Tower in Chicago, a landmark with an undulating appearance connecting with the outdoors as well as for projects such as Brick Weave House, which negotiates public and private with a masonry screen.



The desire to prove the possible coexistence of natural and urban surroundings is manifested in the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, where an urban pond has been turned into an ecological habitat that visitors can experience thanks to a guided boardwalk.





Expectations are now high for the creation of the Chicago River Boathouses. Here Studio Gang is working to turn the long-polluted and neglected Chicago river into a new recreational frontier catalysed by new public access points.

Studio Gang Architects,http://www.studiogang.net
Chicago, USA
Fotografie: Courtesy of Studio Gang
Aqua Tower
Brick Weave House
Nature Boardwalk
Inside Studio Gang
Courtesy of The National Design Award Gallery http://ndagallery.cooperhewitt.org/


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