Studio
Founded and led by Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang is an architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris.
We work as a collective of more than 100 architects, designers, and planners, using design as a medium to connect people to each other, to their communities, and to the environment.
We collaborate closely with our clients, expert consultants, and specialists from a wide range of fields to design and realize innovative projects at multiple scales: architecture, urbanism, interiors, and exhibitions.
Studio Culture
Shop
The heart of the Studio, the Shop is a lively, communal, hands-on space where each of us is encouraged to build, investigate, and explore. Crafted as much by hand as by sophisticated digital tools, our models are tools that push and elevate our designs.
Camp Wandawega
Each summer the Studio heads to Elkhorn, Wisconsin’s Camp Wandawega for camping and camaraderie. A Studio Gang tradition since 2012, our annual retreat features special guests who lead us in activities ranging from foraging to drum-making to star-gazing.
Bike to Work Week
Each year the Studio participates in the Active Transportation Alliance’s Bike to Work Week Challenge, winning first place in our category since 2011.
Annual Canoeing Trip
Our annual canoeing trip is another highly anticipated studio event, bringing Studio members together to canoe the Wisconsin River and camp overnight on the sand bar.
We believe unequivocally that Black lives matter and stand with those bravely taking action against systemic racial injustice. We believe that as architects, we have a critical role to play in creating places and processes that foster equity and justice and that empower historically marginalized communities.
In solidarity with other designers working to envision and realize a just future, we have signed onto the Design Justice Demands of the Design As Protest (DAP) Collective, an anti-racist, non-hierarchical, action-based collective of BIPOC designers dedicated to advancing design justice in the built environment. We encourage you to sign on, as well, and to make use of their Anti-Racist Design Justice Index and other resources and tools for guiding concrete action on these issues.
As architects dedicated to healthy and livable communities, and guided by scientific consensus and reason, we combat climate change through design and advocacy. We invite you to join us as a signatory of Architects Advocate and a signatory and Working Group member of US Architects Declare, a network of architects organizing for radical change in the building sector around climate, social justice, and biodiversity.
We are also a signatory of the 1.5oC COP26 Communiqué issued by Architecture 2030, which calls on sovereign government leaders participating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to match our commitment to meet the Paris Agreement's 1.5oC carbon budget.
Recognition
Studio Gang has won numerous awards, including the 2016 Architizer A+ Firm of the Year Award and the 2013 National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Architecture Honor Award, AIA New York, 2023 / 11 Hoyt
Architecture Merit Award, AIA New York State, 2020 / Rescue Company 2
Architecture Merit Award, AIA New York, 2020 / Solar Carve (40 Tenth Ave)
Honor Award, Distinguished Building, AIA Chicago, 2018 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
Great Places, AIA Illinois, 2018 / Aqua Tower
Honor Award, AIA Hampton Roads, 2017 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
Institute Honor Award, Interior Architecture, 2017 / Writers Theatre
Distinguished Building Citation of Merit, AIA Chicago, 2016 / City Hyde Park
Distinguished Building Citation of Merit, AIA Chicago, 2016 / Writers Theatre
Institute Honor Award, Architecture, 2016 / WMS Boathouse at Clark Park
Interior Architecture Award, AIA Chicago, 2016 / Writers Theatre
Divine Detail Award, AIA Chicago, 2016 / City Hyde Park
Divine Detail Award, AIA Chicago, 2016 / Writers Theatre
Daniel Burnham Award for Master Planning, AIA Illinois, 2016 / Technical team for Positioning Pullman
Divine Detail Award, Design Excellence Awards, AIA Chicago, 2015 / Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
Distinguished Building Award, AIA Chicago, 2015 / Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
Honor Award, AIA Illinois, 2015 / Northerly Island
Distinguished Building Citation of Merit, AIA Chicago, 2014 / WMS Boathouse at Clark Park
Interior Architecture Citation of Merit, AIA Chicago, 2014 / PAHC Studio
Distinguished Building Honor Award, AIA Chicago, 2010 / Aqua Tower
Distinguished Building Citation of Merit Award, AIA Chicago, 2010 / Columbia College Chicago Media Production Center
Distinguished Building Citation of Merit Award, AIA Chicago, 2009 / Brick Weave House
Divine Detail Special Recognition Award, AIA Chicago, 2009 / Brick Weave House
Mies Van der Rohe Award, AIA Illinois, 2009 / SOS Children’s Villages Lavezzorio Community Center
Interior Architecture Citation of Merit Award, AIA Chicago, 2008 / Workspace 1212
Unbuilt Citation of Merit Award, AIA Chicago, 2008 / Architecture for Humanity Biloxi Pinecone House
Unbuilt Honor Award, AIA Chicago, 2008 / Zhong Bang Village
Divine Detail Citation of Merit Award, AIA Chicago, 2008 / SOS Children’s Villages Lavezzorio Community Center
Distinguished Building Citation of Merit Award, AIA Chicago, 2008 / SOS Children’s Villages Lavezzorio Community Center
Emerging Visions Award, AIA Chicago, 2006
Distinguished Building Honor Award, AIA Chicago, 2004 / Bengt Sjostrom Starlight Theatre
Distinguished Building Citation of Merit Award, AIA Chicago, 2004 / Chinese American Service League Kam Liu Center
Distinguished Building Honor Award, AIA Illinois, 2004 / Bengt Sjostrom Starlight Theatre
Distinguished Building Citation of Merit Award, AIA Illinois, 2004 / Chinese American Service League Kam Liu Center
Special Recognition, AIA Illinois, 2004 / Marble Curtain
150 Great Places in Illinois, AIA Illinois, 2004 / Bengt Sjostrom Starlight Theatre
Emerging Visions Award, AIA Chicago, 2000
Architecture Design Winner, National Design Awards, 2013
Winner, 67th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards, 2020 / Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History
High Commendation, AR Future Projects Awards, MIPIM, 2020 / Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History
Woman Architect of the Year, 2016 / Jeanne Gang
Glass Future Prize, 2018 / Tour Montparnasse
WAFX Prize, 2018 / Beloit College Powerhouse
Finalist
Residential Category, 2019 / Solstice on the Park
Office Category, 2019 / Solar Carve (40 Tenth Ave)
Future Projects Category, 2019 / University of Chicago Center in Paris Project
Culture Category, 2019 / Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History
Residential Category, 2018 / Q Residences
Health Category, 2018 / Beloit College Powerhouse
Competition Designs Category, 2018 / Tour Montparnasse
Shortlist
Higher Education Category, 2017 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
Cultural Spaces Category, 2016 / Writers Theatre
Higher Education Category, 2016 / Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
Sport and Civic Category, 2014 / WMS Boathouse at Clark Park
Civic Category, 2008 / SOS International Children’s Village
Annual Design Gala
Excellence in Building Award, 2020
Best of Design Awards
Editors' Picks, Residential Multi-Unit Category, 2022 / 11 Hoyt
Editors' Picks, Unbuilt Residential Multi-Unit Category, 2022 / One Delisle
Honorable Mention, Best of Design Awards, Institutional - Higher Ed Category, 2020 / Beloit College Powerhouse
Honorable Mention, Public Category, 2020 / Rescue Company 2
Honorable Mention, Exhibition Design, 2020 / Baleinopolis
Honorable Mention, Unbuilt Cultural Category, 2019 / Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History
Editors' Picks, Residential Multiunit Category, 2019 / Solstice on the Park
Honorable Mention, Unbuilt Landscape Category, 2019 / Tom Lee Park
Winner, Unbuilt Cultural Category, 2019 / Arkansas Arts Center
Honorable Mention, Commercial Office Category, 2019 / Solar Carve (40 Tenth Ave)
Building of the Year Midwest, 2017 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
Most Innovative Companies in Architecture
Fourth Place, 2021
First Place, 2020
Fifth Place, 2019
Third Place, 2018
Innovation by Design Awards
Winner, Spaces and Places Category, 2021 / Beloit Powerhouse
Finalist; Spaces, Places and Cities Category, 2020 / Rescue Company 2
Finalist; Cities Category, 2020 / MIRA
Honorable Mention; Spaces, Places and Cities Category, 2018 / Memphis Riverfront Concept
Finalist; Spaces, Places and Cities Category, 2018 / Polis Station
Finalist; Spaces, Places, and Cities Category, 2019 / Solar Carve (40 Tenth Ave)
A+ Awards
Jury Award Winner, Gyms & Recreation Center Category, 2021 / Beloit College Powerhouse
Popular Choice Winner, Gyms & Recreation Center Category, 2021 / Beloit College Powerhouse
Jury Award Winner, Multi-Unit House - High Rise Category, 2021 / One Hundred
Jury Award Winner, Unbuilt - Cultural, 2020 / Gilder Center
Jury Award Winner, Commercial - Office Mid-Rise Category, 2020 / Solar Carve (40 Tenth Ave)
Project of the Year Special Honoree Award, 2020 / Solar Carve (40 Tenth Ave)
Jury Award Winner, Residential - Unbuilt Multi-Unit Housing Category, 2020 / MIRA
Finalist, Institutional Unbuilt Category, 2019 / Beloit College Powerhouse
Special Mention, Unbuilt Sports and Recreation Category / Beloit College Powerhouse
Finalist, Multi Unit Housing Mid Rise Category, 2018 / City Hyde Park
Finalist, Recreation Centers Category, 2018 / Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571
Finalist, Unbuilt Masterplan Category, 2018 / Memphis Riverfront Concept
Jury and Popular Choice Award Winner, 2017 / Writers Theatre
Special Mention, 2017 / Civic Commons
Firm of the Year, 2016
Jury Award Winner, 2015 / WMS Boathouse at Clark Park
AD100, 2023
AD100, 2022
AD100, 2021
AD100, 2020
AD100, 2019
AD100, 2018
AD100, 2017
Award for Excellence in Design, 2015 / Rescue Company 2
Merit Award, AZ Awards for Design Excellence, 2014 / WMS Boathouse at Clark Park
Architecture Film of the Year (with Spirit of Space), Longlist, 2021 / Beloit College Powerhouse
Top 10 US architecture projects 2020 / Beloit College Powerhouse
Dezeen Architect of the Year Award
Longlisted, 2020
Shortlisted, 2019
Longlisted, 2019
Gold Award, Building Team Awards, 2017 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
Global Citizen Award, 2020 / Jeanne Gang
Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards
Neighborhood Development Award, 2009 / SOS Children’s Villages Lavezzorio Community Center
Award for Architectural Excellence, 3rd Place, 2005 / Chinese American Service League
Petal Certification, 2013 / Midwest Offices, Natural Resources Defense Council
Finalist, Best Project Award, Residential/Hospitality Category, 2021 / One Hundred
Best Project Award, Residential/Hospitality Category, 2017 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
Excellence in Office Development, 2020 / Solar Carve
Winner, Renovation, 2021, Beloit Powerhouse
Winner, Office & Business, 2020 / Solar Carve (40 Tenth Ave)
Winner, Urban Planning, 2018 / Memphis Riverfront Concept
Winner, Sport and Leisure, 2017 / WMS Boathouse at Clark Park & Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571
Finalist, Culture, 2017 / Writers Theatre
Winner, Real Estate Deals of the Year Award, San Francisco Business Times, 2021 / MIRA
WoodWorks Design Awards
Institutional Wood Design Award, 2017 / Writers Theatre
Innovative Wood Design Award, 2010 / Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo
Prize, Educational Buildings Category, 2017 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
Firm of the Year Shortlist, 2017
Chicago River Blue Awards
Blue Ribbon Award, 2018 / Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571
Green Ribbon Award, 2014 / WMS Boathouse at Clark Park
Best Multifamily Building, PCI Design Awards, 2022 / 11 Hoyt
Best Government and Public Building, 2021 / FDNY Rescue Company 2
Best Higher Education/University Building, PCI Design Awards, 2018 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
Merit Award Winner, 2008 / SOS Children’s Villages Lavezzorio Community Center
Gold Medal Award & Presidential Award, 2003 / Bengt Sjostrom Starlight Theatre
Winner, Great Places Awards, 2013 / Northerly Island
Acknowledgement Prize North America, 2011 / Ford Calumet Environmental Center
Award of Merit, 2017 / Writers Theatre
Grand Prize, Prism Stone in Architecture Awards, 2004 / Marble Curtain
DBIA National Project/Team Awards
Excellence in Design Award, 2017 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
Community Impact and Social Responsibility Award, 2017 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
National Award of Merit, 2017 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
American Architecture Awards
Winner, 2015 / Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
Winner, 2014 / WMS Boathouse at Clark Park
Winner, 2011 / Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo
Winner, 2008 / Aqua Tower
Most Compassionate Architectural Firm, 2009
Best Large Structure, Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards, 2010 / Aqua Tower
Best of Institutional, 2004 / Chinese American Service League
Best New Institutional Building, Best of Downtown Awards, 2005 / Chinese American Service League
Building Award, Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, 2021 / Rescue Company 2
Best Precast Project, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Awards, 2017 / University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons
Design Award of Honor, SARA Design Awards, 2004 / Bengt Sjostrom Starlight Theatre
Metal Architecture Design Awards
Grand Award Winner, 2018 / Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571
Best Overall Design Award, 2004 / Bengt Sjostrom Starlight Theatre
Best New Skyscraper of the Year, 2009 / Aqua Tower
International Highrise Award Finalist, 2010 / Aqua Tower
Make It Better Award, 2016
Award of Excellence, Best Tall Building 300-399 meters, Audience & Category Winner, CTBUH Awards, 2022 / St. Regis Chicago
Award of Excellence, Best Tall Mixed-Use Building, Audience Winner, CTBUH Awards, 2022 / St. Regis Chicago
Award of Excellence, Best Tall Building Americas, Audience Winner, CTBUH Awards, 2022 / St. Regis Chicago