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- interior view of the connecting tunnel between Concourses B & C of Terminal 1.]] Helmut Jahn (b. January 4 , 1940 ) is a German-American Architect , designer of dozens of major buildings throughout the world. Some of the better known among his creations are the US$800 million Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz , Berlin , the Messeturm in Frankfurt and the One Liberty Place , the Tallest Building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jahn was born in Nuremberg , Germany in 1940 . After attending the Technische Hochschule Of Munich from 1960 to 1965 he worked with Peter C. Von Seidlein for a year. In 1966 he emigrated to Chicago to further study architecture at the Illinois Institute Of Technology , leaving school without earning his degree. In 1967 he joined C. F. Murphy Associates as a protégé of Gene Summers and was appointed Executive Vice President and Director of Planning and Design of the firm in 1973 . In 1981 the firm was renamed Murphy/Jahn, although Murphy died a few years later in 1985 , leaving Jahn in control. Despite a rocky start when the roof of his first major project Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri collapsed in 1979, Jahn established his pre-eminent reputation in 1985 with the State Of Illinois Center in Chicago which prompted him to be dubbed " Flash Gordon ." {Link without Title} . COMPLETED PROJECTS Following is a partial list of completed projects and supplemented by the official Murphy/Jahn website[http://murphy/jahn.com/ and the Emporis list [http://www.emporis.com/en/cd/cm/?id=100902]:
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