Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. V, Number 2
Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. V, Number 1: Mayor Gabriel Campana of Williamsport PA meets e-architect’s US Editor. In 1870, the city had more millionaires per capita than anyplace on earth.
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Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA: Joel Solkoff
Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. V, Number 1: welcome to the US Editorial Offices of e-architect in Williamsport PA. In 1870, the city had more millionaires per capita than anyplace on earth.
Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. IV, Number 2
Joel’s Column Vol. IV, Number 2: How a 1924 Arthur Cleveland Nash Architectural Masterpiece in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, transmogrifies into an e-architect exclusive.
Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. IV, Number 1
Joel’s Column Vol. IV, Number 1: President Obama announces architects to design his Presidential Library in Illinois, not “the land of Lincoln”; plus preparing for Zaha Hadid’s eulogy.
Piano’s Whitney Neighborhood, New York City
“If, in all the different action movies, there was an architect superhero – first of all, he would do the things that Renzo Piano does. Second of all, his name would inevitably be Renzo Piano” remarked Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor at the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Special Wooden Floors for the Whitney
Special Wooden Floors for the Whitney, New York Building, Architecture, Architect, News Special Wooden Floors for the Whitney Gallery in Manhattan, NYC, USA – article: Joel Solkoff, PA, USA 9 Jul 2015 Special Wooden Floors for the Whitney in New York Article by Joel Solkoff, PA, USA Joel’s Column Vol. III, Number 4 Photograph of Renzo … Read more
Renzo Piano’s Whitney New York Building
The first Piano Whitney column describes what museum goers at the fashionable eight floor of the Piano Whitney see when they look south toward New York harbor and beyond. It would take 15 minutes by boat to reach the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
The Beauty and Brutality of the City
The Beauty and Brutality of the City Nasjonalmuseet, National Museum of Art Architecture and Design Norway The Beauty and Brutality of the City Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway: Norwegian Architecture – Carlos Garaicoa Designs 20 Apr 2015 Nasjonalmuseet Exhibition The Beauty and Brutality of the City Nasjonalmuseet – Norway National Museum of Art Architecture and Design Norway … Read more
Detroit will be a Trendy City, USA
Today’s Detroit column begins in New York City with Detroit on my mind—always on my mind. I have a friend who had the opportunity to purchase a house in the Meatpacking District of New York City.
Belt and Suspenders Routine, Detroit Planning
Ongoing Special Report on the benefits Detroit may offer Baby Boomers. Detroit will survive because it is next door to an airport flying more passengers non-stop between the U.S. and Asia than any other airport.
Number 6, Volume II of Joel Solkoff’s Column: Wyoming
Joel Solkoff’s Column Volume II No. 6: architectural column by Joel Solkoff, PA, USA – United States architecture, Wyoming, new cities and communities
Is Detroit Dying? Michigan Urban Planning
Is Detroit Dying? A special report. Last autumn, a group of Chinese real estate developers arrived in downtown Detroit for a city tour – they were impressed by what they saw
Joel Solkoff’s Column, Vol.II, No. 7: Urban Planning
Civics as an art has to do, not with imagining an impossible [utopia] where all is well, but with making the most and best of each and every place, and especially of the city in which we live
Joel Solkoff’s Column Volume II Number 5, Brasilia
United States Architecture, Brasilia Buildings, New Cities and Communities in the USA Joel Solkoff’s Column Volume II, No. 5 Architectural Column by Joel Solkoff, PA, USA Joel’s Column Vol. II, Number 5 Building cities in the United States—special Wyoming focus. Plus… Profile of the President of the Wyoming American Institute of Architects Building a new … Read more
Joel Solkoff’s Column, Vol.II, Number 4
What Herzog & de Meuron’s completion of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) means to the revitalization of Downtown Miami.
The government of Miami approved a revitalization plan—a plan that includes the taxpayers of Miami paying costs to the Herzog & de Meuron’s firm. Miami taxpayers paid $100 million toward the cost of the museum.
Worthy of asking but not of discussion here: Are taxpayers getting what they paid for?
Joel Solkoff’s Column, Vol.II, Number 3
Where will I live? Plus…Writing on architects plus their role in the imminent global Baby Boom housing crisis, I have purchased two houses in my lifetime. The first was on Capitol Hill, in Downtown, Washington, D.C. which had a landmark plaque posted on the entrance. It was a beautiful house 100 years old where my former wife and I raised two children.
Joel Solkoff’s Column, Vol.II, Number 2
Zaha Hadid’s Miami compared to my life in rural “Rust Belt” Pennsylvania. “Miami has long been the economic and commercial capital of Latin America, both English and Spanish are commonly understood and it has been the place where many Latinos could be sure their money and their persons were safe from government takeover.”
–The Almanac of American Politics by Michael Barone and Chuck McCutcheon