He took the power-dressing pomp of the 1980s and directed it at banks, airports and corporate HQs. Here are some of the greatest buildings of the German-American architect, who has died aged 81
Main image: ‘The Pompidou turned inside out’ ... interior view of the James R Thompson Center, Chicago. Photograph: Michael Weber/imageBROKER/REX/ShutterstockHelmut Jahn was one of the most flamboyant architects of the postwar era. The German-American developed a bold, bombastic form, designing company headquarters, banks, airports and government buildings across the world that caught the power-dressing pomp of the 1980s. This skyscraper, completed in 1987, burst through Philly’s height limit.
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