26 February 2009

Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group - 3rd Meeting

The third meeting of the CTBUH Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group took place on February 26th 2009, at the Chicago office of Environmental Systems Design.

12 November 2008

Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group Update

Two meetings channeled the efforts of the Sustainability Working Group into an anticipated 80,000 word, 200-page, richly illustrated book.

2 October 2008

Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group Update

The Working Group have announced the chapter plan for a 200-page, richly illustrated book, entitled the ‘CTBUH Guide to Sustainabilty for Tall Buildings in Urban Environments’.

2 October 2008

Sustainability Working Group - 2nd Meeting

Discussions at this meeting centered on the creation of a significant new publication “The CTBUH Guide to Sustainability for Tall Buildings in Urban Environments.”

1 August 2008

CTBUH Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group Meeting

The meeting took place on August 1st, at the LEED Platinum rated Chicago Center for Green Technology and was attended by some of the world’s leading experts on tall buildings.

27 October 2015

2015 New York Conference - Session 4e - Q&A

Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects; Tom Wilcock, Arup; and Gary Handel, Handel Architects, answer questions at the end of 2015 New York Conference Session 4e:...

06 November 2014

2014 Awards - Session 1 Q&A

Dr. Peter Irwin, Founding Partner, RWDI Consulting Engineers, Michael Adlerstein, Assistant Secretary-General & Executive Director, United Nations Capital Master Plan, John Gering, Managing Partner, HLW...

15 April 2014

Is it viable to test the limit of how high man can place materials above ground?

Industry leaders answering this question include: B.K. Boley, ADD Inc; Dave Elder, Mace; Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects; James Goettsch, Goettsch Partners; Rem Koolhaas, OMA;...

17 February 2014

What do you think the North America, Asian and Western European tall building communities most need to learn?

Industry leaders answering this question include: Dave Elder, Mace; Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects; James Goettsch, Goettsch Partners; Rem Koolhaas, OMA; and Sunny Wang, BROAD...

07 November 2013

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Antony Wood (CTBUH Executive Director) and Jeanne Gang (Studio Gang Architects) welcome delegates and open the 12th Annual Awards Symposium.

08 August 2017

Birds, Planes and Bio-Blitzes

Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects

Having designed the 262-meter Aqua in Chicago, which completed in 2009, Jeanne Gang, principal and founder of Studio Gang Architects, received considerable attention for what...

08 August 2017

Ten Significant Tall Buildings, and the Significant Women Behind Them

Leading Women in Tall Buildings

Recently, there has been a growing and overdue recognition in the architecture discipline that women are under-represented, not just in terms of leadership positions held,...

01 June 2016

Three Points of the Residential High-Rise: Designing for Social Connectivity

Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects

In this paper we discuss the terms “exo-spatial design,” “solar carving,” and “bridging” as strategies for creating more socially connective tall buildings. As a typology,...

26 October 2015

Three Points of the Residential High-Rise: Designing for Social Connectivity

Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects

In this paper we discuss the terms “exo-spatial design,” “solar carving,” and “bridging” as strategies for creating more socially connective tall buildings. As a typology,...

03 March 2008

Wanted: Tall Buildings Less Iconic, More Specific

Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang

The industrial revolution and all of its facets led to the design of some of the most notable high-rises of the twentieth century. This paper...