![]() With tall buildings, they're - essentially they're cantilevers coming out of the ground, so the wind affects them a lot. And one time I went to an alumni dinner, and I met the developer that ultimately hired me to build this building and the Aqua Tower. GANG: I just started my career in Chicago, and I was working on community centers. SIMON: What put the skyscraper in your musts? I was - I always just liked making the space to get into or go up into treehouses, and, you know, whatever. Did you ever build, like, forts and treehouses and such? SIMON: So you're growing up in a place where you can see the way Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe and Louis Sullivan and so many great names kind of cast their signature into the skyline of this great city. But I think the small town gave me the sense of community and also a connection to nature that I still try to keep present in the work. And so it did impress me a lot when I was growing up and coming from a small town. So you come out of your way to go see it. Because the Midwest is so flat, it's almost like Chicago is, like, a mountain range. Growing up in Belvidere, like, Chicago is - was our major city for museums and for, you know, for visiting. SIMON: You grew up in Belvidere, Ill., about 70 miles from here. GANG: Well, as a matter of fact, one of my professors told me one time, you know, Jeanne, you know, it's great that you're studying architecture, but, you know, do you think a man really wants to hire a woman to design buildings? But those kind of things just really got me super excited to, like, prove them wrong, you know what I mean? SIMON: Did anyone ever tell you you couldn't be an architect or, you know, you ought to go into interior design? ![]() GANG: So you can do a little thing like that and multiply it over many floors, and you get an effect that's much different than, you know, what it would be on a shorter building or smaller building. SIMON: It's the way you have arranged it that casts like the shadows of a curve, so the building almost seems to change shape. It's all straight, but stepping, like, 4 inches out, out, out. You know what? You said it was curvaceous, but there's not one curve in this building. I don't know how to describe it - three columns, curvaceous, if I may, both reaching toward the sky and reaching up from, like, the center of the earth. ![]() Jeanne Gang has joined the company of giants in a skyline that bristles with buildings by Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe and Helmut Jahn, with skyscrapers that can seem to change shapes and colors with sun and water. On the block is the 82-story Aqua Tower, which used to hold that title. It is now the tallest building in the world designed by a woman. High-rises that make you gasp, like her latest creation, the 101-story St. Here is the office of a young promising company that supplies Cialis generics at low prices.When Jeanne Gang ran into glass ceilings, she built skyscrapers. The unique geometry creates a tall building with eight corners instead of four, providing inhabitants with daylight and fresh air from multiple orientations, while also allocating green space atop the building’s various heights. Stacked and nested, right-side up and upside-down, the frustums to form the tower’s flowing volumes. The essential “building block” of the architecture is a 12-story truncated pyramid called a frustum. An innovative structural system allows the central volume to be lifted from the ground plane, creating a new essential pedestrian connection between the Chicago Riverwalk and the nearby community park’s outdoor recreational facilities. Moving rhythmically in and out of plane, the overall flowing appearance of the building is the result of an alternating geometry between these three volumes. Looking up from the river and park, the tower presents itself as three interconnected volumes of differing heights.
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