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Helmut Jahn (b. January 4, 1940) is an architect, designer of dozens of major buildings throughout the world.
Despite starting off with 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."*
Some of the better known among his creations are the US$800 Million Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin and the One Liberty Place, the tallest building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jahn was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1940. After attending the Technische Hochschule 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. There he studied under the curriculum that had been designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, learning the language and techniques of International Style modernism.
In 1967 he joined C. F. Murphy Associates and was appointed Executive Vice President and Director of Planning and Design of the firm in 1973. In 1981 the firm was renamed Murphy/Jahn, although Murphy died a few years later in 1985, leaving Jahn in control.
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Completed projects
Following is a partial list of completed projects* and supplemented by the official Murphy/Jahn website* and the Emporis list *:
1976 Auraria Learning Resources Center, Auraria Higher Education Center, Denver, Colorado
1977 Saint Mary's College Athletic Facility, South Bend, Indiana(pictures)
1980 Xerox Center (55 West Monroe), Chicago, Illinois
1983 First Source Centre, South Bend, Indiana*
1983 11 Diagonal Street, Johannesburg, South Africa*
1986 362 West Street, Durban, South Africa
1987 Park Avenue Tower, New York, New York*
1987 425 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York*
1988 Wilshire/Westwood, Los Angeles, California
1990 Bank of America Tower, Jacksonville, Florida*
1990 Two Liberty Place, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*
1993 Hitachi Tower, Singapore*
1993 Caltex House, Singapore
1994 Hotel Kempinski, Munich, Germany
1994 Kurfürstendamm 70, Berlin, Germany
1997 RCID Administration Building, Orlando, Florida
1998 Generale Bank Nederland, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2000 Airport Köln/Bonn, Köln, Germany
2000 HA·LO Headquarters (presently the headquarters of Shure), Niles, Illinois
2000 Neues Kranzler Eck, Berlin, Germany
2002 Kaufhof Galeria, Chemnitz, Germany
2002 Shanghai International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China
2002 Bayer AG Konzernzentrale*, Leverkusen, Germany
2003 Deutsche Post AG, Bonn, Germany
2003 Highlight Munich Business Towers, Munich, Germany
2004 Horizon Serono, Geneva, Switzerland
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Awards
Image:Frankfurt am Main Messeturm.jpg|Fair trade tower, Frankfurt
Image:Posttower Bonn 001.jpg|The Posttower, Bonn
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