Frank Gehry has partnered with local artist, urban planner and architect extraordinaire Robert Tannen on a new breed of New Orleans home: the Modgun.
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Our friend over at Tulane,Francine Stock, handily mapped the 4,450 hurricane damaged lots destined for reprogramming at the hands of New Orleans Redevelopment Authority. The dense brown dots covering the Lower Ninth Ward, Gentilly, eastern New Orleans, Lakeview, and St. Bernard Parish speak for themselves. Click this link to check out the landscape of vacancy for yourself.
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OC Haley has emerged over the past few years as a prime example of what can happen when creative minds converge in a fallow urban space. After decades of neglect and disinvestment, the once-bustling shopping street is slowly regenerating with the energy of non-profits, small businesses and a few socially-minded enterprises such as Ashe Cultural Center, Cafe Reconcile and Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center. A historic anchor of the corridor, the Franz Building, is now in the midst of a $2.1 million rehabilitation. The 68,000-square-foot storefront, built in 1915, will return to life as a modern home for a non-profit business…
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