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Helmut Jahn 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." Source and more info [link]

Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera (Catalan for 'The Quarry', is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1905–1907. It was built for Roger Segimon de Milà. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni Gaudí".

Most people consider it magnificent and overwhelming; some say it is like waves of lava or a sand-dune. This building seems to break our understanding of conventional architecture. The most astonishing part is the roof with an almost lunar appearance and dreamlike landscape.

The building can be considered more of a sculpture than a regular building. Critics remark on its detachment from usefulness, but others consider it to be art. The Barcelonese of the time considered it ugly, hence the "quarry" nickname, but today it is a landmark of Barcelona.

It could be compared with the steep cliff walls in which African tribes build their cave-like dwellings. The wavy facade, with its large pores, reminds one also of an undulating beach of fine sand, formed, for example, by a receding dune. The honeycombs made by industrious bees might also spring to the mind of the observer viewing the snake-like ups-and-downs that run through the whole building. Source and more info [link]</sub>


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Canary Wharf is a large business development in London, located on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, centred on the old West India Docks in the London Docklands.

Rivalling London's traditional financial centre, The Square Mile, Canary Wharf contains the UK's three tallest buildings: One Canada Square (sometimes known as the Canary Wharf Tower) at 771 ft (235.1 m); and the HSBC Tower and the Citigroup Centre joint second tallest at 654 ft (199.5 m). source and more info [link]

Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp in Germany, operating between 1936 and 1950. It was named after the Sachsenhausen quarter, part of the town of Oranienburg. The camp is sometimes referred to as Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg. From 1936 to 1945 it was run by the National Socialist regime in Germany as a camp for mainly political prisoners, from 1945 to spring of 1950 it was run by the Stalinist Soviet occupying forces as "Special Camp No. 7" for mainly political prisoners. source and more info [link]</sub>


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H.U.A.Y Architects places a strong emphasis on design quality and project management. The firm believes in maintaining a high level of professional standard and management control to achieve consistent work quality and project completion within the constraints of cost and time schedule. The firm is committed in striving to provide good and personalised service to the clients at all times.

The firm believes in the continual exploration of architectural thought and concepts to provide creative design solutions and thoughtful space making which are sensitive to social changes and technological advancement while adhering to the clients' brief, bringing about sound economic returns.

H.U.A.Y Architects does not believe in endowing our designs with a signature style or a singular vocabulary. H.U.A.Y Architects' design of well-mannered building form is the outcome of thoughtful planning with active collaboration of the client and skills of specialist consultants rising to an occasion.

We reckon that Architectural Style is a manifestation of the spirit in which the Challenge is met.

Thus, for each new undertaking of project, H.U.A.Y Architects will continually adhere to our design principles, aiming to arrive at the optimum building form and appropriate architectural language, to achieve the balanced realization of aesthetic, functional and economic elements of the project. Source and more info [link]</sub>


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