Helmut Jahn's famous designs can be seen in cities like Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Berlin Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, ...

The Chicago-area architectural legacy of Helmut Jahn stretches from downtown skyscrapers to suburban post offices. After his death in a bike accident Saturday afternoon, his inspired designs — large ...

Days after the sudden death of famed architect Helmut Jahn, Glencoe’s John Myefski remained stunned. “He was one of those people that you thought would go forever,” Myefski said. Jahn, 81, was an ...

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CHICAGO -- By an unfortunate quirk of timing, the Illinois Institute of Technology residence hall designed by Helmut Jahn opened about the same time as the Rem Koolhaas campus center. Consequently, it ...

Helmut Jahn, the architect behind some of America’s best-known buildings, has died in a bicycle accident aged 81. The German-American designer, whose high-profile projects include Liberty Place in ...

Helmut Jahn: Life + Architecture is a new exhibit honoring the late Chicago architect and style icon. Get to know this extraordinary man who will continue to inspire generations to come. Chicago lost ...

“Architecture is all about going with your gut,” Helmut Jahn told ArchDaily in 2018. “I prefer when form follows force rather than function.” Jahn was, of course, using the word “force” as a way of ...

Helmut Jahn, the famous German American architect behind some of Chicago’s most impressive buildings, including the Thompson Center, died when he was struck by two vehicles while riding his bicycle ...

Prolific architect Helmut Jahn, who designed some of the world's most recognizable buildings, died on Saturday in a bike accident. He was 81. Jahn, a German native who moved to the United States in ...