German and American architect (1940–2021)
Helmut Jahn (January 4, 1940 – May 8, 2021) was a German and American architect, known for projects such as theSony Center onPotsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; theMesseturm in Frankfurt, Germany; theJames R. Thompson Center in Chicago;One Liberty Place inPhiladelphia , Pennsylvania; andSuvarnabhumi Airport , inBangkok , Thailand, among others.
His recent projects included50 West Street , a residential tower in New York City in 2016; and theThyssenKrupp Test Tower inRottweil , Germany, in 2017. He was also behind1000M in Chicago which began construction in 2019.
An illuminated, suspended, oval roof covers the 102 m span of the centralForum of theSony Center , Berlin. Jahn was born January 4, 1940, inZirndorf , nearNuremberg , Germany.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
He studied architecture at theTechnical University of Munich from 1960 to 1965,[ 5] Peter C. von Seidlein [de ] for a year after graduation.[ 1] Myron Goldsmith andFazlur Khan at theIllinois Institute of Technology on aRotary Scholarship , earning a Master's degree in 1967.[ 3]
Jahn joinedCharles Francis Murphy 's architecture firm, C. F. Murphy Associates, in 1967 and was appointed Executive Vice President and Director of Planning and Design of the firm in 1973.[citation needed He took sole control in 1981, renaming the firm Murphy/Jahn (even thoughMurphy had retired).[citation needed Murphy died in 1985.
Jahn was killed after being hit by two cars on May 8, 2021, while riding his bicycle inCampton Hills , a suburb of Chicago.[ 6] St. Charles, Illinois , a Chicago suburb.[ 7] [ 8] [ 9]
Architectural style and influences [ edit ] Generally inspired byLudwig Mies van der Rohe , yet opposed to thedoctrinal application ofmodernism by his followers, in 1978, Jahn became the eighth member of theChicago Seven . His architectural style shifted from themodernism of theMiesian tradition to apostmodernist one with high-tech stylizations.[ 10] State of Illinois Center in Chicago which prompted him to be dubbed "Flash Gordon ".[ 11]
On October 26, 2012, Helmut Jahn renamed Murphy/Jahn to simply JAHN.[citation needed
Auraria Library James R. Thompson Center O'Hare International Airport , Chicago – interior view of the connecting tunnel between Concourses B & C of Terminal 1, withMichael Hayden 's neon installationSky's the Limit (1987).Bank of America Tower (1990)One America Plaza 1999 K Street, NW in Washington, D.C. Facade of Neues Kranzler Eck,Berlin Following is a partial list of completed projects:
1974Kemper Arena ,Kansas City, Missouri [ 12] [ 13] [ 1] 1976Kansas City Convention Center , also known as H. Roe Bartle Exhibition Hall,Kansas City, Missouri [ 14] 1976Auraria Learning Resources Center ,Auraria Higher Education Center ,Denver, Colorado [ 15] 1976 John Marshall Courts Building,Richmond, Virginia [ 14] 1977Michigan City Public Library ,Michigan City, Indiana [ 16] 1977 Saint Mary's College Athletic Facility,Notre Dame, Indiana [ 17] [ 18] 1978 W.W. Grainger Headquarters,Skokie, Illinois [ 14] 1978 Rust-Oleum Corporation International Headquarters,Vernon Hills, Illinois [ 14] 1978 La Lumiere Gymnasium,La Porte, Indiana [ 14] 1979 Imperial Bank TowerCosta Mesa, California [ 19] 1980 Horizon Bank (515 Franklin Street Bank)Michigan City, Indiana [citation needed 1980 Xerox Centre, (55 West Monroe St) Chicago, IL[ 14] [ 13] 1981 United States Post Office,Oak Brook, Illinois [ 14] 1981 De La Garza Career Center,East Chicago, Indiana [ 14] 1981 Commonwealth Edison Company District Headquarters,Bolingbrook, Illinois [ 14] 1982 Argonne Program Support Facility,Argonne National Laboratory ,Illinois [ 14] 1982 Eagle River Vacation House (The Jahn House),Eagle River, Wisconsin [ 14] 1982 Area 2 Police Headquarters, Chicago[ 14] 1982Chicago Board of Trade Addition, Chicago[ 14] 1982One South Wacker , Chicago[ 14] [ 13] 1983 Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building AdditionUniversity of Illinois ,Champaign, Illinois [ 14] 1983 Learning Resources Center,College of DuPage ,Glen Ellyn, Illinois [ 14] 1983 First Source Centre,South Bend, Indiana [ 13] [ 20] 198411 Diagonal Street ,Johannesburg , South Africa[ 21] 1984 Plaza East Office Towers,Milwaukee , WI[ 14] 1984 Shand Morahan Corporate Headquarters,Evanston, Illinois [ 14] [ 22] 1984 701 Building (Craig-Hallom Building),Minneapolis , MN[ 23] 1984O'Hare 'L' Station , O'Hare International Airport, Chicago[ 24] 1985James R. Thompson Center , Chicago[ 25] [ 1] 1985 362 West Street,Durban , South Africa[ 26] 1986 Parktown Stands 102, 103, 85, 879,Johannesburg , South Africa[ 27] 1986 MetroWest Office Building (2 Energy Center),Naperville, Illinois [ 28] 1986 Oakbrook Terrace Tower,Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois [ 29] 1987Park Avenue Tower , New York, NY[ 26] 1987 425 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY[ 30] 1987United Airlines Terminal 1 atO'Hare International Airport , Chicago[ 13] 1987 America Apartments – 300 East85th Street , New York, NY[ 31] 1987One Liberty Place ,Philadelphia , PA[ 1] 1987Cityspire , New York, NY[ 13] [ 1] 1987Citigroup Center , Chicago[ 32] 1988 Wilshire-Midvale, Los Angeles, CA[ 33] 1989 Trade Hall 1 (Halle 1),Frankfurt , Germany[ 13] 1989Metropolitan Transportation Authority Headquarters, 130 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY[ 34] 1990Bank of America Tower , Jacksonville, Florida[citation needed 1990Two Liberty Place , Philadelphia[citation needed 1991One America Plaza , San Diego, CA[citation needed 1991Messeturm , Frankfurt, Germany[ 13] 1992 Hyatt Regency,Roissy , Paris, France[ 26] 1992120 North LaSalle , Chicago[citation needed 1993Hitachi Tower , Singapore[ 35] 1993Caltex House , Singapore[ 36] 1994 HotelKempinski , Munich, Germany[ 13] 1994 Kurfürstendamm 70,Berlin , Germany[citation needed 1996 Fortis Bank Tower (Blaak 555),Rotterdam , Netherlands[ 37] 1996 Principal Financial Group Corporate Four Building,Des Moines, Iowa [citation needed 1997RCID Administration Building ,Buena Vista, Florida [citation needed 1998Generale Bank Nederland ,Rotterdam , Netherlands[citation needed 1999European Union Charlemagne building , Brussels, Belgium[citation needed 1999Munich Airport Center, Germany[citation needed 2000Sony Center Berlin, Germany[ 13] [ 1] 2000Cologne Bonn Airport ,Cologne , Germany[citation needed 2000 HA·LO Headquarters (presently the headquarters ofShure ),Niles, Illinois [citation needed 2000 Imperial Bank Tower Renovation,Costa Mesa, California [ 38] 2001 Neues Kranzler Eck,Berlin , Germany[ 38] 2002 Kaufhof Galeria,Chemnitz , Germany[citation needed 2002 Shanghai International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China[citation needed 2002 Bayer AG Konzernzentrale[ 39] 2003 DeutschePost Tower , Bonn, Germany[citation needed 2003IIT Student Housing , Chicago[citation needed 2003Highlight Munich Business Towers , Munich, Germany[citation needed 2004 Mannheimer Corporate Headquarters,Mannheim , Germany[ 40] 2004 Merck Serono Headquarters (Horizon Serono),Geneva , Switzerland[citation needed 2005 Focus Media Center (Deutsche-Med-Platz),Rostock , Germany[ 41] 2006Suvarnabhumi Airport ,Bangkok , Thailand[ 42] 2006 Seminaris Campus Hotel, Berlin, Germany[citation needed 2007GranTokyo , Tokyo, Japan 2007 Margot and Harold Schiff Residences, Chicago[citation needed 2007 600 North Fairbanks, Chicago[citation needed 2008 Hegau Tower,Singen , Germany[ 43] 2009 South Campus Chiller Plant,University of Chicago Chicago[ 44] 2009 1999 K Street, Washington, D.C.[ 45] 2010 Hafen Tower (Sign Tower), Speditionstrasse 1–3Düsseldorf , Germany[ 46] 2010Veer Towers ,Paradise, Nevada USA[ 47] 2010Weser Tower ,Bremen , Germany[citation needed 2010 Bonn Airport Parking,Cologne , Germany[citation needed 2011Joe and Rika Mansueto Library , Chicago[ 1] 2012Leatop Plaza ,Guangzhou , China[citation needed 2012 Skyline Tower,Munich , Germany[citation needed 2012Japan Post , Tokyo, Japan[citation needed 2013Cosmopolitan Twarda 2/4 ,Warsaw , Poland[ 1] 2014Zunda Towers ,Riga , Latvia[ 48] 2016 Doha Exhibition and Convention Center, Qatar[citation needed 2016 Shanghai Convention Center, Shanghai, China[citation needed 201650 West Street , New York, NY[ 49] [ 50] 2017ThyssenKrupp Test Tower , Rottweil, Germany[ 51] 2017 1900 Reston Station, Reston, Virginia[ 52] 20241000M , Chicago, IL[ 53] In his native town of Nuremberg, however, a project by Jahn was rejected by a citizens' referendum in 1996.[ 54]
Jahn was interested inyachting , and in the late 1990s owned at least three yachts namedFlash Gordon [ 61] Flash Gordon 2 won the annualChicago to Mackinac Race , the oldest freshwater yacht race in the world.[ 62] Flash Gordon 3 won theAdmiral's Cup .[ 61] [ 63] Farr 40 design yacht calledFlash Gordon 6 that he had the most success winning the 2012Farr 40 World Championship [ 64] [ 65]
He married Deborah Ann Lampe, an interior designer, in December 1970. Their son Evan was born in 1978.[ 2]
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