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...granite and glass building will be 1,360 ft. high, rising far above the dense forest of downtown Houston's corporate towers. Its 82 stories will contain 2 million sq. ft. of rentable space. The developers, Southwest Bancshares Inc. and Century Development Corp., picked as their architect Helmut Jahn, 42, president of Chicago's Murphy/Jahn...
Born in Nuremberg, Jahn studied architecture in Munich and came to this country in 1966 to do postgraduate work at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the citadel of Mies van der Rohe's bare and square architectural puritanism. Jahn joined the firm of C.F. Murphy in 1967 and became its chief designer in 1973. The firm changed its name to Murphy/Jahn eight years later...
...Government Prosecutor Ray Jahn argues that Jimmy Chagra was "greatly fearful of Judge Wood." He points out that Chagra's own lawyer had requested that Wood excuse himself from the case, citing bias, but Wood refused. According to the prosecution's scenario, Jimmy and Joseph then agreed to have the judge murdered, and in the spring of 1979 Jimmy met Charles Harrelson in Las Vegas and offered him the job. Jahn plans to introduce tape recordings made secretly by the FBI when Joseph visited Jimmy in 1980 in the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kans. On those tapes, says...
Even the organist and the P.A. announcer got into the act, the former establishing a reputation as the best in the majors and the latter bouncing backup catcher John Bocabella's sonorous name off the tiny stadium's cheap steel seats ("Et maintenant, numero 12, Jahn...Boc...a..bellll...
...collapse of the five-year-old, $12.2 million facility stunned both Kansas City and the visiting architects, among them Jahn, 39. Ironically he had come to receive another citation, this one for a gym in South Bend, Ind., and he heard the bad news while at one of the festive banquets. "It's just terrible," he said. "The building was designed to withstand certain winds and certain conditions, but there are such things as acts of nature...