From the moment it appeared on the chicago skyline, the aqua tower has earned numerous awards for design excellence. Get your team aligned with all the tools you need on one secure, reliable video platform. Image 10 of 12 from gallery of aqua tower studio gang. Towering an impressive 87 stories, these chicago highrise apartments are surrounded by the best of the city. Its fair to say aqua is a starmaker, with its 2009 completion putting the citys newest neighborhood, lakeshore east, on the tip of everyones tongue. Chicagobased magellan development group hired studio gang. The rippling, waterinspired design stretches high into the. Jeanne gang is an american architect and the founder and leader of studio gang, an architecture and urban design practice with offices in chicago, new york, and san francisco. Aqua is an 82story mixeduse residential tower in the lakeshore east development, chicago, us. Aqua tower chicago jeanne gang inhabitat green design. The buildings eightystory, 140,000 sq ft base is topped by a 82,550 sq ft terrace with gardens, gazebos, pools, hot tubs, a walkingrunning track and a fire pit. Aqua is an 82story mixeduse residential skyscraper in the lakeshore east development in downtown chicago, illinois.
Aqua buildings of chicago chicago architecture center. Essays and interviews on design and research are also featured, including written contributions from diverse collaborators and other specialists. Aqua tower the tower that jeanne gang built jonathan glancey. Combining a hotel, offices, rental apartments, condominiums, and parking, along with one of chicagos largest green roofs, aqua facilitates strong connections. Drawings, diagrams, sketches, and photographs illuminate the evolution of eight featured projects, among them aqua tower, the blue wall center, and the ford calumet environmental center. The aqua tower by architect jeanne gang was built in lakeshore east, chicago, illinois, united states in 20062009. Studio gang architects have completed major construction on the 82story aqua tower. Aquaa new, eightytwostory apartment tower in the center of chicagois made of the same.
The name aqua is in keeping with the nautical theme most of the buildings near lake michigan and the chicago river have. One of the foremost architects working today, jeanne gang is widely recognized fo. The 334room hotel occupies the bottom 18 floors of the aqua tower apartment building, designed by the chicago architect jeanne gang. Seven fascinating facts about genius architect jeanne gang. Its also the tallest building in the world to be designed by a. Its already being hailed as a masterwork for the young firm, which. The new aqua tower by studio gang is a highlight along this. Internationally renowned for the aqua tower, gang has recently completed projects such as solstice on the park, writers theatre, the university of chicago campus north residential and dining commons, city hyde park, the arcus center for social justice leadership at kalamazoo college, and two boathouses on the chicago river. She is best known for designing aqua, a tower in chicago, which was completed in 2010. Even if the aqua tower, the glamorous, dancing skyscraper that will make jeanne gang an international name, is not typical of her studios work, it is a mighty birds nest of sorts, an urban rock. The aqua tower is a sculture of sorts that draws inspiration from striated limestone outcroppings common in the great lakes area, according to studio gang architects.
The team behind chicagos aqua tower is gearing up for another highrise nearby. Designed by a team led by jeanne gang of studio gang architects, with. Studio gang architects, has best become know for their design of chicagos aqua tower. With its rippling facade and vast green roof, chicagos aqua tower is a revelation. Jeanne gang exploded on to the citys skyline with her aqua tower a decade ago.
Lake michigan, the chicago river, millennium park, and the 6acre park at lakeshore east are all within walking distance to explore and enjoy. The most recent new yorker profiles chicago architect and certified genius jeanne gang, whose marriage of thinking and building, amy waldman writes, is on par with rem koolhaas, while her. City hyde park highrise breaks up apartment monotony. Gang, who started her architectural practice in chicago in 1997, completed aqua, an 82story apartment tower, overlooking the citys millennium park in 2009. At 82 stories, reaching a height of 876 feet, aqua tower is one of few tall buildings to create a community on its facade. The skyline of chicago can be seen as the timeline of skyscraper history, which started in 1885 with the home insurance building. Aqua tower team dives back in for new chicago project by.
The buildings height of 819 ft 250 m, includes six levels of parking below ground. Combining a hotel, offices, rental apartments, condominiums, and parking, along with one of chicagos largest green roofs, aqua facilitates strong connections between people and to the city. Inside studio gang architects by jeanne gang goodreads. Aqua, the chicago skyscraper that made gang an architectural star. Aquaa new, eightytwostory apartment tower in the center of chicagois made of the same tough, brawny materials as most skyscrapers. Aqua apartments are unlike anything else in the city. Chicago architect jeanne gang studio gang talks to wttw tv chicago tonight on her work and the new residential tower aqua, june 2009. Sited on the chicago river, a waterside then still emerging from its history of industry, inaccessibility and. Architect jeanne gang designing another tower for aqua developer. Her aqua tower in chicago is currently the tallest womandesigned building in the world, a distinction soon to be passed to the new vista tower, also of her design.
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