Photographs by Steve Hall © Hedrich Blessing As the City of Chicago works to transform the long-polluted and neglected Chicago River into its “next recreational frontier,” Studio Gang’s two boathouses on its north and south sides will help catalyze this movement—creating key public access points along the river’s edge and providing facilities where the city’s youth rowing teams can develop their athletic and life skills. The design for the boathouse structures translates the time-lapse motion of rowing into an architectural roof form.