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Helmut Jahn (born January 4, 1940) is a German-American architect, 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.
Jahn was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1940, and grew up watching the reconstruction of the city, which had been largely destroyed by Allied bombing campaigns. After attending the Technical University of Munich from 1960 to 1965, he worked with Peter C. von Seidlein for a year. In 1966, he emigrated to Chicago to further study architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, leaving school without earning his degree.
In 1967, he joined C. F. Murphy Associates as a protégé of Gene Summers and was appointed Executive Vice President and Director of Planning and Design of the firm in 1973. Taking sole control from 1981, the firm was renamed Murphy/Jahn, although the aged Murphy had retired (dying a few years later, in 1985).
Generally inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, yet opposed to the doctrinal application of modernism by his followers, in 1978, Jahn became the eighth member of the Chicago Seven. Despite a rocky start when the roof of his first major project Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri collapsed in 1979, Jahn established his pre-eminent reputation in 1985 with the State of Illinois Center in Chicago which prompted him to be dubbed "Flash Gordon.".
Jahn has grown the business into a global architectural practice that consistently ranks among top 20 United States architectural firms in terms of gross annual billings. In addition to the main seat in Chicago, the company has offices in Berlin and Shanghai.
On October 26, 2012, Helmut Jahn renamed Murphy/Jahn to simply JAHN and announced that he will share design leadership at the firm with architect Francisco Gonzalez Pulido, a partner and president of JAHN.
Completed projects
Following is a partial list of completed projects [2] [3] [4]:
1974 Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri
1976 Kansas City Convention Center, also known as H. Roe Bartle Exhibition Hall, Kansas City, Missouri
1976 Auraria Learning Resources Center, Auraria Higher Education Center, Denver, Colorado
1976 John Marshall Courts Building, Richmond, Virginia
1977 Michigan City Public Library, Michigan City, Indiana ([5])
1977 Saint Mary's College Athletic Facility, Notre Dame, Indiana (pictures)
1978 W.W. Grainger Headquarters, Skokie, Illinois
1978 Rust-Oleum Corporation International Headquarters, Skokie, Illinois
1978 La Lumiere Gymnasium, La Porte, Indiana
1979 Imperial Bank Tower Costa Mesa, California
1980 Horizon Bank (515 5th Street Bank) Michigan City, Indiana
1980 Xerox Centre, (55 West Monroe St) Chicago
1981 United States Post Office, Oak Brook, Illinois
1981 De La Garza Career Center, East Chicago, Indiana
1981 Commonwealth Edison Company District Headquarters, Bolingbrook, Illinois
1982 Argonne Program Support Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois
1982 Eagle River Vacation House (The Jahn House) Eagle River, Illinois
1982 Area 2 Police Headquarters, Chicago
1982 Chicago Board of Trade Addition Chicago
1982 One South Wacker Chicago
1983 Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building Addition University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
1983 Learning Resources Center, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
1983 First Source Centre, South Bend, Indiana [6]
1983 11 Diagonal Street, Johannesburg, South Africa [7]
1984 Plaza East Office Towers, Milwaukee
1984 Shand Morgan Corporate Headquarters, Evanston, Illinois
1984 701 Building (Craig-Hallom Building), Minneapolis
1984 O'Hare 'L' Station, O'Hare International Airport, Chicago
1985 James R. Thompson Center, Chicago
1985 362 West Street, Durban, South Africa
1986 Parktown Stands 102, 103, 85, 879, Johannesburg, South Africa
1986 MetroWest Office Building (2 Energy Center), Naperville, Illinois[8]
2011 Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, Chicago, USA [25]
2012 Leatop Plaza, Guangzhou, China
2014 Cosmopolitan Twarda 2/4, Warsaw, Poland
2015 50 West Street, New York City, USA
Awards
1991 - "Ten Most Influential Living American Architects" from the American Institute of Architects.
1993 - "Outstanding Achievement/Architect Award" from the American Academy of Art, Chicago.
1994 - "Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse" of the Federal Republic of Germany.
2002 - Institute Honour Award of the American Institute of Architects for the Sony Center.
2005 - Murphy/Jahn, Inc. recipient of the AIA Architecture Firm Award.
Yachting
Jahn has an interest in yachting, and in the late 1990s owned at least three yachts named Flash Gordon (one of his nicknames). In 1995, Jahn's Flash Gordon 2 won the annual Chicago to Mackinac Race, the oldest freshwater yacht race in the world. In 1997, Flash Gordon 3 won the Admiral's Cup.