SF Chronicle — “In Bay Area, Jeanne Gang’s architecture goes beyond head-turning towers”
“To understand why Jeanne Gang is a deeply important architect, not just a spinner of eye-catching forms, check out her four Bay Area projects. The eclectic mix of projects is a timely reminder that architecture should engage broader cultural needs.”
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San Francisco Chronicle — “Waterfront towers are coming to Mission Rock. They won’t look like you’d expect”
“Gang’s 23-story residential tower would be the most startling of all — an almost willfully precarious stack of floors that shuffle out and back so that every three levels there’d be a cliff-like shared terrace for residents.”
San Francisco Business Times — “'Bold' designs mark Giants, Tishman Speyer vision for $1 billion Mission Rock”
“Sure to garner the most attention will be Studio Gang’s and Quezada Architecture’s off-kilter residential tower. Its stepped podium leads to planted terraces and raked seating, offering views of the public square. But its tower is what stands: with floors askew, it resembles either the Jenga building-block game or rocky outcroppings of chert found around the city.”
