Helmut Jahn
Helmut Jahn (January 4, 1940 – May 8, 2021) was a German-American architect from Chicago, Illinois.[1] He was born in Nuremberg, Germany.
Jahn was well known for designs such as the Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany, the One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (formerly the tallest building in Philadelphia), and the Suvarnabhumi Airport, an international airport in Bangkok, Thailand.
Recent projects include a residential tower in New York City, 50 West St in 2016 and the Thyssenkrup Test Tower in Rottweil, Germany in 2017. He was designing the 1000M, a super-tall residential complex in Chicago at the time of his death.
Jahn was riding his bicycle on May 8, 2021 and was hit by a car in Campton Hills, Illinois.[2] He died from his injuries a few hours later, aged 81.[2]
Helmut Jahn Media
An illuminated, suspended, oval roof covers the 102 m span of the central Forum of the Sony Center, Berlin.
Picture of Auraria Library. I took this picture. I declare this picture to be public domain.
O'Hare International Airport, Chicago – interior view of the connecting tunnel between Concourses B & C of Terminal 1, with Michael Hayden's neon installation Sky's the Limit (1987).
Bank of America Tower (1990)
One America Plaza, the tallest building in San Diego.
1999 K Street, NW in Washington, D.C.
Facade of Neues Kranzler Eck, Berlin
References
- ↑ Neumann, Dietrich. "Helmut Jahn." In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 5, edited by R. Daniel Wadhwani. German Historical Institute. Last modified February 09, 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rosenberg-Douglas, Katherine. "Architect Helmut Jahn killed in bike accident in Chicago suburb". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
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