Jeanne Gang, American architect known for her innovative responses to issues of environmental and ecological sustainability. She employed sustainable design techniques to conserve resources, decrease urban sprawl, and increase biodiversity. Her most famous building is Aqua Tower, an 82-story skyscraper in Chicago.
Jeanne Gang, (born March 19, 1964, Belvidere, Illinois, U.S.), American architect known for her innovative responses to issues of environmental and ecological sustainability. She employed sustainable design techniques such as the use of recycled materials to conserve resources, decrease urban sprawl, and increase biodiversity. She is perhaps best known for her Aqua Tower, an 82-story mixed-use skyscraper in downtown Chicago that, when completed in 2010, was one of the tallest buildings in the world designed by a woman. Gang earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986, and in 1989 she studied urban design an interdisciplinary
Eliana de Leon awarded for work at new Geneseo Inn
–Eliana de Leon, an interior designer based in Paso Robles, recently won the 2021 Metal Architecture Design Award in the Interiors Category; the judges reviewed her work done at the Geneseo Inn, a bed and breakfast located at Cass Winery’s vineyard.
“It was a successful collaboration between Alice and Steve Cass, Ted Plemons [the owners] and me,” de Leon said. “It was energizing to present atypical ideas and materials to clients that were on board with ‘designing outside the box’. As soon as I heard from Ted that future guests would be staying in actual freight containers positioned within the vines, I knew I had to come up with unique ideas to mesh with their vision and help create an extraordinary experience. We agreed that the interiors needed to be ‘edgy’ to match this special concept,” she said.