Studio Gang Architects

Studio Gang is an American architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Paris.[1] Founded and led by architect Jeanne Gang, the Studio is known for its material research and experimentation, collaboration across a wide range of disciplines, and focus on sustainability.[2] The firm’s works range in scale and typology from the 82-story mixed-use Aqua Tower to the 10,000-square-foot Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College to the 14-acre Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo. Studio Gang has won numerous awards for design excellence, including the 2016 Architizer A+ Firm of the Year Award and the 2013 National Design Award for Architecture from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, as well as various awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and AIA Chicago.

Studio Gang Architects
The Aqua Tower in Chicago
Practice information
Key architectsJeanne Gang
Founded1997 (1997)
LocationChicago, Illinois, United States New York, New York, United States
Significant works and honors
Projects
Website
studiogang.com

Background

Founded by Jeanne Gang in 1997, Studio Gang is recognized for a design process that foregrounds the relationships between people, communities, and environments. The Studio works as a collective of architects, designers, and planners, collaborating closely with experts in a range of fields. The Studio uses design as a medium to connect people socially, experientially, and intellectually.[3]

One of the Studio's first built works, the Bengt Sjostrom Starlight Theatre, was completed in 2003, and won praise from critics;[4] the Chinese American Service League Kam Liu Center, finished the following year, garnered the firm additional accolades.[5][6] Aqua Tower and the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, both completed in 2010, significantly increased the Studio global profile, winning acclaim from architecture critics.[7][8]

The firm’s projects explore new typologies, materials, and techniques. For its Writers Theatre project, for example, completed in 2016, the Studio hung wood in axial tension to create a unique space for theatre-goers as well as an iconic identity for this regional civic and cultural anchor.[9]

Completed in 2014, the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership is a purpose-built structure for social justice education and utilizes cordwood masonry for its exterior walls. This heritage technique is a low-tech and relatively inexpensive method of building assembly used to achieve a high-performance facade. The wood walls sequester more carbon than was released in building them, responding to today’s need to reduce carbon pollution—one of many environmental issues embraced by social justice movements.[10]

The WMS Boathouse at Clark Park, and Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571, feature a sculptural roof that translates the motion of rowing and are two of four boathouses intended to revitalize the Chicago River.[11] The projects stemmed from the Studio's advocacy publication Reverse Effect, published in 2011, which imagines a greener future for Chicago's waterways.[12]

The Studio's Northerly Island project, which transforms a former airfield into a public lakefront park and habitat, opened to the public in 2015.

The Studio employs more than 90 people as of May 2017.[13]

Selected projects

Towers
Project Location Status Year
One Hundred St. Louis, MO Completed 2020 [14]
11 Hoyt New York, NY Under construction 2019 [15]
40 Tenth Avenue New York, NY Under construction 2019 [16]
Vista Tower Chicago, IL Under construction 2019 [17]
Solstice on the Park Chicago, IL Completed 2018 [18]
MIRA San Francisco, CA Completed 2017 [19]
City Hyde Park Chicago, IL Completed 2016 [20]
Shoreland Chicago, IL Completed 2014 [21]
Recombinant House (Garden in the Machine) Cicero, IL Design concept completed 2012 [22]
Aqua Tower Chicago, IL Completed 2010 [23]
Vancouver Pair Vancouver, BC Design concept completed 2010 [24]
Hyderabad O2 Hyderabad Design concept completed 2008 [25]
HafenCity Crane Tower Hamburg Design concept completed 2006 [26]
Zhong Bang Village Shanghai Competition design completed 2003 [27]

Education
Project Location Status Year
The University of Chicago Center in Paris Paris, France Under Construction 2022 [28]
Beloit College Powerhouse Beloit, WI Under Construction 2019 [29]
University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons Chicago, IL Completed 2016 [30]
Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, MI Completed 2014 [31]
Columbia College Chicago Media Production Center Chicago, IL Completed 2010 [32]

Nature, Culture, and Community
Project Location Status Year
Rescue Company 2 (New York City Fire Department) New York, NY Under construction 2018 [33]
Northerly Island Chicago, IL Ongoing 2017 [34]
Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History New York, NY In design 2017 [35]
Civic Commons United States Completed 2016 [36]
Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571 Chicago, IL Completed 2016 [37]
National Aquarium Strategic Master Plan Baltimore, MD Design concept completed 2016 [38]
Writers Theatre Glencoe, IL Completed 2016 [39]
PAHC Studio Chicago, IL Completed 2014 [40]
WMS Boathouse at Clark Park Chicago, IL Completed 2013 [41]
The Conservation Center Chicago, IL Completed 2012 [42]
Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Pop Music Center Kaohsiung Competition design completed 2011 [43]
Blue Wall Center Greenville, SC Design concept completed 2010 [44]
Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo Chicago, IL Completed 2010 [45]
Taipei Pop Music Center Taipei Competition design completed 2010 [46]
Ford Calumet Environmental Center Calumet City, IL Design concept completed 2008 [47]
SOS Children's Villages Lavezzorio Community Center Chicago, IL Completed 2008 [48]
HafenCity Chicago Square Hamburg Design concept completed 2006
Chinese American Service League Kam Liu Center Chicago, IL Completed 2004 [49]
Bengt Sjostrom Starlight Theatre at Rock Valley College Rockford, IL Completed 2003 [50]

Exhibitions
Project Location Status Year
Working in America Chicago, IL Completed 2016 [51]
Thinning Ice at Design Miami Miami, FL Completed 2014 [52]
Changes of Phase for Thodos Dance Chicago Chicago, IL Completed 2014 [53]
EXPO Chicago Chicago, IL Completed 2012 –2014 [54]
Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects at the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL Completed 2012 –2013 [55]
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at the Museum of Modern Art New York, NY Completed 2012 [56]
Baseball in the City at the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL Completed 2004 [57]
Marble Curtain at the National Building Museum Washington, D.C. Completed 2003 [58]

Selected awards
  • MIRA San Francisco by Studio Gang
    Institute Honor Award, Interior Architecture, AIA Awards, 2017 / Writers Theatre
  • Daniel Burnham Award for Master Planning, AIA Illinois, 2016 / Technical team for Positioning Pullman
  • Divine Detail Award, Design Excellence Awards, AIA Chicago, 2016 / Writers Theatre
  • Interior Architecture Award, Design Excellence Awards, AIA Chicago, 2016 / Writers Theatre
  • Distinguished Building Citation of Merit, Design Excellence Awards, AIA Chicago, 2016 / Writers Theatre
  • Divine Detail Award, Design Excellence Awards, AIA Chicago, 2016 / City Hyde Park
  • Distinguished Building Citation of Merit, Design Excellence Awards, AIA Chicago, 2016 / City Hyde Park
  • Institute Honor Award, Architecture, AIA Awards, 2016 / WMS Boathouse at Clark Park
  • Architizer A+ Firm of the Year, 2016
  • Award for Excellence in Design, Thirty-third Annual Design Awards, Public Design Commission, New York, 2015 / Rescue Company 2
  • Distinguished Building Award, Design Excellence Awards, AIA Chicago, 2015 / Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
  • Divine Detail Award, Design Excellence Awards, AIA Chicago, 2015 / Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
  • Honor Award, AIA Illinois, 2015 / Northerly Island
  • Distinguished Building Citation of Merit, Design Excellence Awards, AIA Chicago, 2014 / WMS Boathouse at Clark Park
  • National Design Award, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  • Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction Acknowledgement Prize North America, 2011, for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center[59]
  • Distinguished Building Honor Award, AIA Chicago, 2011, for the Nature Boardwalk, Education Pavilion and South Pond Transformation at Lincoln Park Zoo[60]
  • Most Compassionate Architectural Firm, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), 2009[61]
  • Skyscraper of the Year Award, Emporis, 2009, for the Aqua Tower[62]
  • Emerging Visions Award, AIA Chicago, 2000 & 2006[63]
  • Neighborhood Development Award, 3rd place, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, 2005, for the Chinese American Service League[64]

References
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