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Architect Jeanne Gang at Studio Gang Architects at their new offices at 1250 W. Division in Chicago on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Chicago architect Jeanne Gang is having quite a moment.
Named the 2016 Woman Architect of the Year last week by a British magazine, Gang won a plum job Tuesday: Design of a new U.S. embassy compound in Brasilia.
To be located on an existing 12-acre complex in the city’s diplomatic zone, the project will include a chancery, a Marine security guard residence, perimeter security and facilities for the embassy comnunity, the State Department said in a news release.
A design has not yet been prepared.
Gang’s Chicago-based firm, Studio Gang Architects, bested five other shortlisted firms, including Steven Holl Architects of New York and Morphosis of Culver City, Calif.