CAC Exhibit Celebrates the Late Helmut Jahn
Seventy-six days after the shocking death of celebrity architect Helmut Jahn, the Chicago Architecture Center will open a new exhibit about his work and legacy. Helmut Jahn (Photograph by Studio Thies Ibold. Courtesy of the Chicago Architecture Center.) You’ll remember that the 81-year-old Jahn died this past May in a bicycle crash in far west suburban Campton Hills. “Helmut Jahn: Life + Architecture” opens July 23rd...
Helmut Jahn 1940 – 2021
Helmut Jahn, the legendary architect who used skyscrapers to leave his mark on Chicagoland and the rest of the world, died Saturday afternoon at the age of 81. According to the Kane County Chronicle, a police report indicates that Jahn was riding his bicycle on Old Lafox Road in far west suburban Campton Hills, and didn’t stop for a stop sign at Burlington Road. He was struck by two cars, and died at the scene. Helmut Jahn in...
City Approves Hight Cut for Michigan Avenue Skyscraper
Back in February of this year, we told you that the people behind 1000M wanted to make yet another change to their plan to erect a fancy new Helmut Jahn-designed skyscraper at 1000 South Michigan Avenue. Now the City of Chicago is on board with those changes. June 2017 Rendering of 1000M (Courtesy of Time Equities) Recently, the Chicago Department of Planning and Development sent a letter to the lawyers for 1000M letting them know...
Jahn’s Michigan Avenue Skyscraper Downsizes Again, Switches to Apartments
One of the city’s most visible locations was supposed to get one of the city’s most visible skyscrapers designed by one of the industry’s most visible architects. But progress has been invisible at 1000 South Michigan Avenue since construction was halted last June. June 2017 Rendering of 1000M (Courtesy of Time Equities) At the time, the public relations company for 1000M told us that it was because of concerns...
Hopes Dashed: Michigan Avenue Skyscraper Remains On Hold
Last week we showed you pictures of construction workers toiling at 1000 South Michigan Avenue, the location where the 1000M residential tower was going up until recently. It we got your hopes up with those pictures, sorry. It was a false alarm. Construction at 1000M in August 2020 (Courtesy of YoChicago!) 1000M’s public relations team tells us those workers from McHugh Construction weren’t actually working on the tower....
Construction Workers Back at 1000M After COVID-19 Shutdown
One thing seems to be leading to another again at 1000M, the 74-story residential skyscraper coming to Chicago’s South Loop. Work on the Helmut Jahn-designed condominium tower was stopped in early June. At the time, 1000M’s public relations company stated it was because construction workers couldn’t maintain a proper social distance during the COVID-19 pandemic while working on the foundation. A month later, it was...
What a COVID-19 Construction Stoppage Looks Like
Last month we told you that construction was halted at 1000M because of concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. Shortly after that announcement, the YoChicago! YoCopter happened to be over the site, and this picture was dropped into our tip line. Construction progress at 1000M (June 2020, Courtesy of YoChicago!) It looks like everything at 1000 South Michigan Avenue was neatly packed up and put where it belongs. A place for...
COVID Concerns Halt Construction of Michigan Avenue Skyscraper
South Michigan Avenue is a little quieter these days. Not because of the paucity of tourists or the meagerness of office workers, but because construction on 1000M has been stopped. June 2017 Rendering of 1000M (Courtesy of Time Equities) Construction crews are no longer working at 1000 South Michigan Avenue because of the pandemic that has kept everyone from school children to responsible public leaders away from their daily...
McHugh Hardhats Make A Kid’s Birthday in Quarantine the Best Ever
Way back in April (this one fell through the cracks, sorry, we’re terrible people), Chicagoan Sawyer Morgenthaler turned seven years old. Having a birthday during the COVID-19 lockdown is bad enough. But since Master Morgenthaler lives in the South Loop, he couldn’t be treated to the celebratory suburban drive-by birthday parades that we see on the local TV news all the time. Still, young Sawyer...
Pictures From the 1000M Groundbreaking
Recently we told you that a groundbreaking ceremony was held in the South Loop for 1000M, the 74-story Helmut Jahn-designed residential building. June 2017 Rendering of 1000M (Courtesy of Time Equities) We also told you that some people are skeptical about this project, but that we’re still believers. In part because just a few months ago Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development said lawyers for the...
