Award of Excellence Winner Stephen E. Selkowitz Throughout the Years

Award of Excellence Winnner Stephen E. Selkowitz Throughout the Years — Late parents Ida and Israel gave Selkowitz strong values.

Photo Courtesy Stephen Selkowitz

This biographical slide show traces some of the influences of ENR's 2014 Award of Excellence winner Stephen E. Selkowitz.

Nadine M. Post, ENR's editor-at-large for buildings, is an award-winning journalist with 45 years of experience covering trends, issues, innovations, controversies and challenging projects. Post has written about many industry giants, including 10 ENR Award of Excellence winners. And she has covered disasters, failures and attacks, including the 1993 bombing and the 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center. Project stories include the redevelopment of the World Trade Center; the 828-meter-tall Burj Khalifa; Los Angeles’ Disney Concert Hall; and Seattle's Bullitt Center and Rainier Square Tower. In 1985, Post wrote McGraw-Hill's book Restoring the Statue of Liberty (1986) for the restoration’s architects—Richard S. Hayden and Thierry W. Despont.

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