Anfield Police Station Liverpool Renewal

Anfield Police Station Liverpool renewal

The Anfield Police Station is an impressive 1800s building is set to become a 26-room boutique bed and breakfast, for a pair of property developers who came to the city from Mexico in 2018.

Heavy and Light Lights article by Carlos M Teixeira

3×9 house in Ho Chi Minh City

Article by Celebrated Brazilian Architect Carlos Teixeira – projects from two countries whose architecture is not quite familiar for us (speaking from Brazil). The first is abstruse and heavy and carries an unbearable burden of history; the other is light and green and cozy – Žanis Lipke Memorial Museum + 3×9 house, HCM

Hastings Pier Regeneration, East Sussex

Hasting Pier coast view | www.e-architect.com

Stirling Prize winner – Hastings Pier Redevelopment by dRMM Architects. de Rijke Marsh Morgan beat six architecture practices to the job. Also shortlisted were Niall Laughlin Architects, Wilkinson Eyre Architects, FAT, Adams & Sutherland and White Arkitekter AB.

Chapel Street Regeneration in Salford, UK

Chapel Street Regeneration Buildings Salford | www.e-architect.com

Design proposal by OMI Architects to form two groups of buildings straddling a new public square. The development opens a pedestrian route from Chapel Street to the New Bailey area, Spinningfields and Manchester city centre. 375 apartments and 870sqm of commercial & retail space.

School of Architecture in Wolverhampton

School of Architecture and the Built Environment

Architects: Atkins. Plans to convert a derelict brewery building into a £100m education hub for construction and the built environment at the University of Wolverhampton, England, have been given the go ahead.

Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. IV, Number 1

President Barack Obama Presidential Library Illinois building - 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.

Joel Solkoff’s Column Volume II Number 5, Brasilia

Joel Solkoff Column Vol 2.5

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

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)

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

Zaha Hadid Yacht 1

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

One Thousand Museum - 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

Joel Solkoff’s Column, Vol.II, Number 1

Crescent Hotel

If I were an architect eager to launch my career in the U.S., I would focus on three states: Texas, California, and Florida. Despite the incredibly exciting renewal taking place in New York City, the reality is that the wealth and power in the United States has shifted

Rebuilding The World Trade Center: Libeskind

Kimbell Art Museum, Piano Pavilion - Joel Solkoff’s Column, Vol.I, Number 3

Joel Solkoff – on disability issues relevant to architects. Daniel Libeskind, master architect to rebuild Ground Zero, watched the original World Trade Center being built in the 1960s. Libeskind’s father worked in the neighborhood.

Joel Solkoff’s Column, Vol.I, Number 2

Marlene Dietrich in 1931

Joel Solkoff – on disability issues relevant to architects

The new Renzo Piano Whitney overlooking the Hudson River, adjacent to a really fun public park, has brought to near completion, another magnificent new Piano. Within the Gallery is the original photograph Edward Steichen took of Marlene Dietrich in 1931. The Whitney will soon be launching a new Exhibition of Steichen’s work.