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Helmut JahnLatest Stories

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So Long, Sbarro

Chicago’s Big Tech architectural marvel is an adaptive reuse win, but it could be a loss for the public

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Red Truss Of Courage

One of Helmut Jahn’s final designs, a military archive and exhibition center, takes shape in Wisconsin

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But It's Sticking Around

Illinois will sell the Thompson Center for $70 million

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Making Helmut Proud

Winning designs revealed for the Thompson Center Design Ideas Competition

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Postmodern Protagonist

Helmut Jahn: Life + Architecture is a greatest hits album, not an anthology

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A Legacy, Observed

The Chicago Architecture Center announces a special exhibition saluting Helmut Jahn

exterior of a spaceship-like postmodernist building, now under consideration for the 2021 Chicago Prize Competition
Ideas Wanted

The 2021 Chicago Prize Competition tasks designers with reimagining an imperiled Thompson Center

Helmut jahn as a young man
In Remembrance

Helmut Jahn was an architect consistently ahead of his time

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1940 - 2021

Helmut Jahn dead at 81 after fatal bicycle crash

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To Protect and Preserve

Helmut Jahn pitches proposal to save Chicago’s Thompson Center

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Love It or List It

Chicago’s Thompson Center is up for sale

Jahn-ing at Work

Eavesdrop: Hadid, Jahn, Venturi, and the Soho Grifter

Photo of the 160-foot atrium of Helmut Jahn's 1985 James R. Thompson Center.
Landmark It Now!

Sale of Chicago’s iconic Thompson Center delayed through 2019

Starship Chicago

New doc spotlights Helmut Jahn’s threatened Thompson Center

Quid Pro Quo

Illinois Governor ransoms Thompson Center for public school money

Helmut Jahn’s latest Chicago skyscraper loses 200 feet in height

Postmodern Purgatory: Illinois Governor announces plan to sell Helmut Jahn’s Thompson Center

David Chipperfield short-listed for Beethoven Concert Hall in Germany

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