Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Chicagoland / Architecture Jeanne Gang's Aqua: The Best Skyscraper of 2009
Posted by Whet Moser on 02.24.10 at 11:54 AM
Gang, Garofalo, Ronan, and other local rising stars are on the verge of defining a third Chicago school of architecture, following in the footsteps of Sullivan, Burnham, and Root in the 19th century and Mies van der Rohe in the 20th. This new school won't be characterized by the kind of uniform visual style that marked the architecture of Mies or Frank Lloyd Wright, but by diversity, changeability, and an intellectual restlessness that compulsively tests accepted wisdom.
Jeanne Gang's much-lauded Aqua has picked up a deserved award from Emporis; in 2006, Lynn Becker said the building heralded a promising third wave of Chicago architecture.
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