Posted on 05/09/2021 4:08:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Helmut Jahn, the famed German architect who designed the James R. Thompson Center and other iconic buildings, died Saturday afternoon when he was struck by two vehicles while riding his bicycle in suburban Campton Hills.
Jahn, who lived in nearby St. Charles, was riding his bike north on Old Lafox Road near Burlington Road about 3:30 p.m. when he failed to brake at a stop sign, according to a news release from Campton Hills police. Two vehicles traveling in opposite directions on Burlington then struck the 81-year-old.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The driver of one of the vehicles was taken to Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva with injuries that weren’t thought to be life-threatening, police said. The other driver and his passenger weren’t injured.
Jahn’s impact can be seen across the world in designs ranging from the Sony Center in Berlin, Germany, to the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. His projects in Illinois include the Chicago Police Department’s Area 2 Headquarters in Pullman and the sleek, modern United Airlines Terminal at O’Hare International Airport, which includes a moving walkway famous for its colorful lighting.
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I don’t know who this guy was but getting splattered by two vehicles on the highway does not sound like a very pretty way to die.
81 riding a bike. Good for him. He kept his health till the end.
Bicycles and cars are never a good mix.
“Jahn’s impact can be seen across the world”
I thought, “Don’t people READ what they have written?”
Egad.
Tom Schuba is around 12 years old in literacy years - he grajoo-ated koolidge in 2015.
Per some German coverage...
https://m.dw.com/de/star-architekt-helmut-jahn-ist-tot/a-57478087
...doesn’t sound like he suffered.
Just got off the phone with my mom who's Spending her first Mother's Day without my dad who passed in February at 88. He jogged on his treadmill till he was 84 or 85. He slipped and fell doing some yard work, and while he didn't break his hip he bruised it pretty well and laid him up. It seems like the sudden cessation of his physical activities led to the noticeable onset of dementia and he took a steep decline over the past year before passing.
‘Very common among cyclists, who seem to think the rules of the road don’t apply to them.’
My thoughts, exactly. What you want to bet the drivers get hounded as being in the wrong, even with video. Can you imagine the way the drivers feel???
Those buildings will make quite a show when they’re demolished with explosives, and the sooner the better.
What did he have on the Clintons?
The dead guy designed those?
Are you sure?
Those look like apartment buildings that you see in Communist countries.
Phrasing
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