# Helmut Jahn
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helmut jahn (born January 4, 1940) is a Chicago-based German-American architect, 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. Recent projects include a residential tower in New York City, 50 West St in 2016 and the ThyssenKrupp Test Tower in Rottweil, Germany in 2017.
== Life and career ==
Jahn was born in Zirndorf near Nuremberg, Germany, in 1940, and grew up watching the reconstruction of the city, which had been largely destroyed by Allied bombing campaigns.
German Architects in Chicago: From Mies van der Rohe to Dirk Lohan
with Andrew Sola, Dirk Lohan, and Rolf Achilles
In our 30th and final episode celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the Chicago-Hamburg Sister-City partnership, we look at the German architects who literally built the buildings that Chicagoans live, work, and play in today.
After discussing the e…
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with Andrew Sola, Dirk Lohan, and Rolf Achilles
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Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
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Google is sharing new images of what the inside of its headquarters in the Thompson Center will look like.
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