In a cycling accident, architect Helmut Jahn died

Chicago – The renowned German architect Helmut Jahn died on Saturday as a result of a bicycle accident; he was 81 years old. This was reported today by the AP agency. Jahn was behind projects such as the Berlin Sony Center and the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, as well as the renovation of the administrative building of the European Commission named after Charlemagne in Brussels.

Jahn was born in 1940 in Germany, but in 1966 he moved to Chicago. His professional career began in 1967. In the United States, among his major projects is the McCormick Place convention center in Chicago. Jahn also contributed to the design of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Washington, AP reported.

According to the police, Jahn, riding his bicycle on Saturday afternoon in the village of Campton Hills west of Chicago, was struck by two cars when he failed to stop at an intersection where there was a stop sign. The architect died at the scene of the accident.