
Endless Tower, Presentation on Plexiglass
<p>Helmut Jahn’s Endless Tower project was inspired by Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column, a slender sculpture of repeating prism shapes developed in 1918. Jahn’s translation of sculpture to skyscraper resulted in a remarkable double-layered structure with a faceted tower embedded within a simple, clear glass column. The resulting voids at the building’s corners were intended to function as “skygardens,” large atria providing meeting areas as well as passive climate control for the office space. In 2007 Murphy/Jahn adapted this ambitious design for a single-skin tower planned for Bucharest, Romania, with triangular facets that recall Brancusi’s Romanian Endless Column monument, erected in 1938.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1994
- Dimensions
- Overall: 122 × 62 cm (48 1/16 × 24 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Helmut Jahn
Artist
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More by Helmut Jahn
Lawndale Commons, Sketch
1986 · 15 individual sheets taped together on verso. Brown, blue, & red marker pen and blue-green colored pencil on tablet paper.
Lawndale Commons, Site Plan
1986 · Brown marking pen on tracing paper
Collage of Aspen House, Colorado
1981 · Diptych, collage of chromogenic print
Gateway and River (Tribune Tower)
1979 · Colored pencils and graphite on yellow wove paper
Studies for a Low-Rise Hospital
1972 · Ink on paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Helmut Jahn
- Year
- 1994
- Dimensions
- Overall: 122 × 62 cm (48 1/16 × 24 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1994-138393
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





