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Growing Home New Orleans
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans still houses to up to 70,000 vacant lots. Two years ago, however, the city put a plan into place to help residents revive their neighborhoods. The…
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Young Guns
Branching out and doing your own thing is a brave and bold move at any time and any age. That said, the 21 visionaries we profile here—–designers of interiors, graphics, architecture…
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Young at Any Age
Japanese designer Mikiko Endo lets her wild imagination go to work—–so we can play.
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Raw Mirror
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the rawest of them all? Designer Stanley Ruiz cut this birch plywood piece to expose the unique grain of the wood, while a leather strap suspends it from the wall…
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Riverstone Black Heart
Silvery-black pebbles encased in a transparent resin remind us of Jennifer Lopez's movie The Cell—as though this could only exist in CGI.
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Materialism: Black Is Black
We all live in a material world, but it is especially true for Material ConneXion. The pioneering international material-database and consulting agency has an ever-expanding library of over 4,500…
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Bold Color, Small Space: The Black Apartment
Frequent TED speaker and international advertising consultant Cindy Gallop opens the doors to her unusual apartment in Manhattan, an all-black space filled to the brim with curios and novel objets…
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Louisiana Contemporary: Ai Weiwei
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957 in Beijing) participated in the Louisiana’s exhibition Made in China in 2008. In the autumn of 2011, however, he will be back, this time in the leading…
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Recent Acquisitions
"Recent Acquisitions" celebrates the ongoing addition of important works of art to the Menil Collection by gift, purchase, and bequest. While some of these works have been included in…
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Arthur Q. Davis: Legacy of a Modern Architect
In 1947, a time in which few New Orleans-based architects were advancing modern architecture, Arthur Q. Davis and his partner, Nathanial C. Curtis, established their practice in the city. The…
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The structural design look good and sturdy....I like the use of limited space... but consider transferring your bed and repurposing the use of that platform on the stairwell for either clothing, books and tv... it's not good Feng Shui to sleep on top of the stairwell....you'll wake up tired and nervous.
I like how the popped the roof so one can get a better view of the power lines from the master window. This is also a great idea as space is really at a premium in NO, with houses selling for literally thousands of dollars.
it is insanity to issue building permits for locals below sea level
My favorite part of this house is the bed over the stairs! I would kill to put my bed there. I would wake up feeling awesome about myself every morning.
"Within two weeks after Katrina struck, the baseball field was transformed into a FEMA trailer neighborhood housing many displaced Tulane workers." Katrina didn't "strike" New Orleans. In fact, it struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans was fetched a glancing blow. By time it actually hit New Orleans, Katrina was a fairly weak storm (I believe a Category 1 or weak 2), not the Category 5 monster that it was while at sea. What happened to New Orleans was that Federally built levees and flood walls which were theoretically certified for at least a Category 3 simply collapsed because of the malfeasance of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. At least two major engineering studies, one sponsored by the National Science Foundation, have borne this out. Recently the Corps was on the short end of a judge's verdict over the construction of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (known to locals as MRGO or "Mr. GO"). This disaster was not natural. It was the outcome of more than 40 years of incompetence or worse by the Army Corps. Even the Corps has grudgingly admitted this to be the case.
I THINK THE SNORKLE DESIGN WILL BE HANDY DURING THE NEXT LIMP LEVY....BUT HOW DOES YOUR DOG GET IN AND OUT OF THAT LOFTY BED ?
i'm not so sure about feng shui but i would not put the beds on such an elevated level, both the one above the stairs and the other one he needed to use a chair to climb insanely high into it. falling of that wouldn't be pretty.
Steve is 100% absolutely right, and I should know...New Orleans is my hometown and is an amazing city that must be preserved and appreciated.
This is horrible. Structurally sound or not, to see people come in and destroy what made/makes NOLA what it is, or hear them say rebuilding "should happen below sea level" tears my very soul to shreds. Shotgun house are great, and so are the tacky colors people paint them... let's stick with that and make functional internal improvements, not "modern" aesthetic ones.
The side view of the building is clearly a snorkel. Like the ones enabling 4-wheel-drives to cross rivers etc. Haven't read the article so maybe this is mentioned there... but surely the architects were aware of the irony? /martin
It would be interesting to see fast forward a few years to determine if any neighbors followed suit and improved their homes to meet the standards. I would really hope the neighborhood could embrace these types of changes and everyone make self improvements.
I think the most telling thing about this house is its faux affordability "while remaining affordable enough to be inhabited by college students." speaks to the fact that this house was designed with young (relatively) affluent people of a certain class in mind, as opposed to creating affordable housing for all the displaced people living under the poverty line. Its times like this that all the "Design can change the world" clap trap rings most hollow.
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