The builders

Jeanne Gang

Architect

Beautiful, functional and green, Gang’s works carry the torch of the city of architects. But it’s the workers who construct her iconic structures whom she admires most. “It’s one of the best feelings—to go onto a job site and talk to the people who are physically making the buildings,” she says. “For example, on the Aqua tower, the concrete workers who are laying out and pouring the floors—[I’m impressed with] their knowledge of the materials. These are people who work every day with their hands.”—Brent DiCrescenzo

In the next two years, two of Studio Gang’s structures, the Aqua tower (summer 2009) and Solstice on the Park (September 2010), will continue Chicago’s redefinition of urban architecture.

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