Tributes paid to Helmut Jahn: Architect dies in bike accident aged 81
Architect Helmut Jahn has passed away at the age of 81 in a bike crash last weekend.
German-American architect Helmut Jahn died in an accident on Saturday (May 8th) while riding his bike, according to Campton Hills police. He was 81 years old.
Many people on social media and those who have worked with the renowned architect have paid their respects and shared poignant tributes to Jahn.
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Architect Helmut Jahn has died
German-American architect Helmut Jahn died in a bike crash last Saturday (May 8th) near his home in Chicago.
Multiform is the architectural manifestation of our present moment
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Boudoir Babylon Café represents a design collaboration between Adam Nathaniel Furman and Sibling Architecture, commissioned for the NGV Triennial 2020 in Melbourne.
The project transforms NGV’s Gallery Kitchen with three distinct spatial typologies – the boudoir, the salon and the club – serving as inspiration. All three locations are considered as safe spaces for those with identities outside of the norm, mainly women, the queer community as well as people with different political or religious beliefs and other marginalised sections.
With an aim to challenge, subvert and rethink norms of how people come together and socialise, the designers used geometric forms, gender-stereotyped colours and symbolic imagery based on body parts to create vibrant, theatrical scenography. Elements such as a circular catwalk or carousel in the centre, painted modesty screens (found in 18th century boudoirs) that create individual spaces for people who li