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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 ...
Clockwise from top left: Stanley Chera, Sheldon Solow, Peter Hauspurg, Gerald Hines, Jerry Wolkoff, and Bianca Yankov In a year when so many lives were lost, real estate was not spared. The industry mourned both legendary figures and those who died too soon. But it was the death of Stanley Chera, the 77-year-old patriarch of Crown Acquisitions, that epitomized the year. The real estate titan had decamped New York City for Deal, New Jersey, early in the pandemic at the behest of his longtime friend, President Donald Trump. But on April 11, Chera died of complications from Covid-19. When Trump ...