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Tag Archives: New Orleans
More dishing on Brad Pitt
Apparently, some media outlets have discovered the joy of dishing on celebrities who think they know best. Isn’t that all of them? At any rate, the Daily Kos and the (U.K.) Guardian both have new hit pieces out on Hollywood … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged Brad Pitt, Lower Ninth Ward, Make It Right, New Orleans, The Daily Kos, The UK Guardian
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Rouchell: Case for classicism
Michael Rouchell is an architect in New Orleans and a founder of the Louisiana chapter, one of 15 regional chapters of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. On March 30, he posted the following remarks in an online discussion … Continue reading
Don’t make it blight, Brad!
Actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation erected several score of goofy homes in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans – poor, depopulated and hardest hit by Katrina in 2005. Pitt brought in squads of modern architects to teach the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Hurricane Katrina, Make It Right, Modern Architecture, New Orleans, Ninth Ward
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Rouchell and New Orleans
My post “Nostalgia in New Orleans?” generated some comment among traditionalists on the TradArch list, including Louisiana architect Michael Rouchell. A couple of years ago, he contributed an excellent counterproposal to help my effort to get Rhode Island’s governor to … Continue reading
Nostaglia in New Orleans?
A decade has passed since New Orleans began to rebuild its flooded neighborhoods after Hurricane Katrina. About all anyone beyond the Crescent City has heard of are the goofy new houses of Make It Right, an organization formed by movie … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged Brad Pitt, Hurricane Katrina, Make It Right, New Orleans, Richard Campanella, Tulane University
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Haunting if not haunted
Now this is more like it. Here, courtesy of Mental Floss, are “26 Hauntingly Beautiful Photos of Abandoned Homes Across America,” houses that look haunted, that may be haunted. They are merely abandoned, and too bad! They are more the … Continue reading
Lovely N’Awlins proposal
Michael Rouchell, a New Orleans architect who frequently participates in the TradArch conversation, sent this design of his for an apartment building there. In allure, it is far and away beyond anything that has been proposed in Providence for decades. … Continue reading