Studio Gang

Item: Studio Gang
Rating: 7

Chicago architecture and urban design practice led by Jeanne Gang.

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7.0/10MABTU rating

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DESKTOP · 1440 × 5,764/ ↗

MOBILE · 390

Section outline · Home

01introPractice statement with inline blue links, news item right5,179
02newsTower photo with long descriptive paragraph and read-more
03valuesSmall mono manifesto paragraph, advocacy link
04workLarge blue display line beside first project entry
05projectsTwo-column grid of small project photos with captions
06pressTwo short Jeanne Gang interview blurbs with links
07contactBlue display line, link list, pull quote right
08footerFour office addresses and pink social links

Rating · Home

Visual design7.3

UX & clarity6.3

Originality8.2

Craft & consistency7.3

Motion5.5

Performance & a11y6.5

This page scores 7.0; the site score weights the home page double.

Main colours

Light·white background·vivid

Typography

DI Nroundheading · font · self-hosted DI Nmonobody · font · self-hosted

Stack & style

WordPress jQuery

Minimal Brutalist Editorial Service area list Smooth scroll Sticky header

Also: Hotjar, Cloudflare, WP Engine, Google Analytics

Design DNA

The page behaves like a hypertext document: a narrow multi-column text grid, a monospace body at roughly 11px and a sky-blue link colour used so often that blue becomes the accent. Headlines are a modest sans, only 'Explore our work.' and 'Contact us.' jump to a large blue display size. Project images are small, never full width, and always sit beside or under their descriptive paragraph rather than leading it. Sections are separated by white space alone — no rules, cards or bands — and a navy top bar plus a pale-pink-linked footer with four office addresses bookend it.

Worth borrowing

Treat the home page as a linked document: inline blue links inside body copy instead of buttons and cards.
Keep project images deliberately small so the writing, not the render, carries the practice's argument.
Use one oversized blue display line per section as the only typographic emphasis in a mono-set page.