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Bisnow: Weekend Interview: Evan Jahn On Jahn Without Helmut

When Evan Jahn was growing up, his dad, famous architect Helmut Jahn, was insistent he not become an architect. And he didn’t. Jahn instead embarked on a 15-year career as a sustainability consultant for the property industry, including stints at Forum Studio and Clayco, and co-founding Ecker Green, a green office consultancy. But that hasn’t stopped him from landing in the family business. Jahn started sharing an office with his father a few years ago while doing some of his own real estate development. That evolved to Jahn working at the eponymous architecture firm and being positioned behind the scenes as Helmut’s successor. When Helmut died unexpectedly in a bicycle accident in May 2021, that plan was accelerated, and Jahn took over as president of the 60-year-old global architecture firm Jahn shortly thereafter.
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ENR: 1000M, The Last Building Designed by Jahn, Rises

A cantilever creates a dramatic sculptural effect at the 1000M residential tower in Chicago’s South Loop—the last design of the late architect Helmut Jahn. The cantilever at 1000 S. Michigan Avenue swoops over an adjacent, shorter building and makes the most of limited space.
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Architectural Digest: Architect Explores Chicago’s Hidden Architecture & History (Part 2)

Architect Lynda Dossey returns to the streets of Chicago for another walking tour, this time highlighting the hidden details to be found in the stylish River North neighborhood.
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Eden Tower Frankfurt wins FIABCI Prix d’Excellence Germany 2022

The remarkable "Eden Tower" project, featuring one of the tallest green facades in Europe, received the bronze FIABCI Prix d’Excellence Award in the residential category on November 18, 2022.
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Architectural Digest: Architect Explores Chicago’s Hidden Architecture & History (Part 1)

Today on AD Architect Lynda Dossey leads us on a walking tour of Chicago, highlighting the captivating details found in its storied architecture.
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Bloomberg: A Chicago Icon Will Get a New Look, and a Second Chance

Google is set to give architect Helmut Jahn’s dazzling but troubled Thompson Center a corporate makeover. The building’s fans want its postmodern soul preserved, too.
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The Real Deal: Meet Evan Jahn, son of late Thompson Center architect

There’s little middle ground among Chicago residents and architecture critics on the James R. Thompson Center, which Google bought for $105 million as developer Mike Reschke revamps the spaceship-shaped building in the next three years. Passerby on Randolph and LaSalle Streets either love it or hate it. The 37-year-old, 1.2-million-square-foot conical building was designed by the late Helmut Jahn, who created an open interior atrium as a symbol of government transparency because it housed state offices. Now Jahn’s only child, Evan Jahn, 43, is president of the eponymous architecture firm long helmed by his father, who died in a bicycle accident last year at 81.
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Multi‑Housing News: Architecture With a Problem‑Solving Attitude

Meet Lynda Dossey, a passionate Chicago architect who looks at projects as the ultimate 3D puzzles. Tune in for an inspiring conversation with a creative female leader!
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Jahn Unveils New Brand Identity

Jahn announced today a new visual identity and voice. The refreshed brand celebrates a commitment to collaboration that has been at the heart of Jahn’s success, which remains named for the late architect Helmut Jahn (1940-2021), who led the Chicago-based firm for 40 years.
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REjournals: Internationally renowned architecture firm Jahn/ unveils new brand identity

Internationally renowned full-service architecture studio Jahn announced a new visual identity and voice. The refreshed brand celebrates a commitment to collaboration that has been at the heart of Jahn’s success, which remains named for the late architect Helmut Jahn (1940-2021), who led the Chicago-based firm for 40 years.
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Chicago Sun‑Times: A year after his death, Helmut Jahn’s firm looks forward with new projects and a rebranded name: Jahn/

The spectacular, and much maligned, James R. Thompson Center will be an office building reborn in a few years, if all goes according to plan. This is as it should be. The last three Illinois governors tried to send this postmodern icon to the scrap heap, citing the building’s nine-figure rehab costs while ignoring its architectural importance. But when preservationists and others started speaking up for the building in 2017, the most prominent voice was that of its architect, Helmut Jahn.
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Building Design + Construction: A Frankfurt tower gives residents greenery‑framed views

In Frankfurt, Germany, the 27-floor EDEN tower boasts an exterior “living wall system”: 186,000 plants that cover about 20 percent of the building’s facade. Chicago-based architecture firm JAHN, which spearheaded the facade concept, collaborated with local design firm Magnus Kaminiarz & Cie on EDEN tower.
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The Architect’s Newspaper: One of Helmut Jahn’s final designs, a military archive and exhibition center, takes shape in Wisconsin

Almost a year after the untimely death of Helmut Jahn, one of the architect’s final designs is coming to fruition. Jahn’s prolific legacy in Chicago and the surrounding area includes the Thompson Center, Terminal 1 at O’Hare International Airport, and the Mansueto Library at University of Chicago. Building on his penchant for engaging the public through wildly expressive designs, the Pritzker Military Archives Center in Somers, Wisconsin, is a jaunty 48,000-square-foot civic space for archiving and exhibiting military paraphernalia.
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Chicago YIMBY: State Announces Plans For The Thompson Center In The Loop

The State of Illinois has selected a buyer for the controversial Thompson Center located at 100 W Randolph Street in The Loop. The building, which opened in 1985, was designed by famed architect Helmut Jahn who designed other influential Chicago structures like Terminal 1 at O’Hare International Airport. The sale represents the end of a multi-year process which began in 2018 under the previous governor.
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