Helmut Willy Joos

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Helmut Willy Joos (born March 12, 1935 in the Black Forest ; † February 26, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect . He left a lasting mark on the cityscape of Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Joos, whose mother died in a heavy bomb attack on Pforzheim and whose father died as a soldier in Russia, studied architecture in Karlsruhe with Egon Eiermann and in Mainz after completing an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and carpenter . In 1961 he came to Frankfurt am Main and opened an architecture office in 1963, from which in 1980 together with Reinhart W. Schulz and Karsten Krüger-Heyden and later with Jurek M. Slapa the internationally active office JSK with over 200 employees and numerous locations in Germany. and developed abroad.

The first major project was a terrace house on Ulmenstrasse in Frankfurt's Westend . For the Frankfurt real estate entrepreneur Josef Buchmann , he planned the Rhein-Main-Center on Bockenheimer Landstrasse , which was built in 1969 and was the second tallest building in the city after the Shell high-rise at the time . This was followed by major projects such as Die Welle in the immediate vicinity of the Alte Oper , the Skyper high-rise or the 660-meter-long The Squaire and Terminal 2 at Frankfurt am Main Airport . However, the 250-meter-high Campanile tower south of the main train station in Frankfurt was never realized.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice Helmut Willy Joos , Frankfurter Neue Presse , accessed on April 2, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Christoph Manus: "Helmut Joos - the man who shaped Frankfurt" , Frankfurter Rundschau of March 8, 2018, accessed on April 2, 2018
  3. ↑ "Frankfurt architect Helmut Joos died". Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 6, 2018, accessed on August 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Joos, Helmut Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joos, Helmut W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2018
Place of death Frankfurt am Main