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14 new duplex designs from a slew of top architects are announced as part of NOLA rebuilding effort, Make it Right.
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I am in Australia and we and hundreds of other people from all over the world invested over $30,000.00 each to the Title Connection Trust under the pretense this was all set up by Bradd Pitt. The person we were dealing direct with was Leslie Younger but now she refuses to communicate to any one and the money accounting to Millions has all but vanished, and we have now been told we must get lawyers to try and get some if any of the money back. I find this disgusting that investors from all over.... More
I think all nay says should give the man a little credit and trust that he did his research. I think the experts know what they're doing. There's probably not a most cost efficient solution for protecting the people from flooding.
I have been living in New Orleans my entire life and these designs are ridiculous.
First of all these designs are way too modern and ridiculous looking to fit into the scenery in the 9th ward. Secondly, people in the 9th ward will not be living in huge houses. I mean c'mon lets be honest. The 9th ward is one of the poorest parts (and most violent parts) of New Orleans and they want to throw in these huge modern looking houses. I may seem negative about the whole situation but this is just.... More
Enter your comments heresond negative,also you are what is dumb,and maybe jealous
Celebrities need to stop getting their hands involved in things they know nothing about like "thinking"
I've only been to NOLA once but the best part of it, for me, was the architecture. Why put these horribly modern designs in such a decidedly non-modern area? It looks like a bunch of designers trying to out-wierd each other, and they've succeeded. It's great to build homes there, but why not make them fit in with the homes that weren't destroyed?
To help with resisting the hurricane winds, there needs to be some designs taking advantage of circular structures. Naturally a round home will hold up against high winds much better than the flat walls that are shown in the designs above. I don't know why the designers aren't taking this truth into consideration.
Yurts would be a great house design for this area!
because they are architects, not engineers. Slightly to their defense, circular structures are harder to manufacture but I fully agree with your statement.
For what it would cost to make any one of these designs a reality and hurricane resistant you could build 10 houses that would be storm resistant and functional.
These people have been drinking the Katrina flood water!
Being a New Orleanian and a designer, I like the 1st design the best.
Almost all of our houses are raised, elderly residents or not. Just a good rain can bring on street flooding! Our houses must be raised, and Katrina showed us they should be raised even more. And saying things like it shouldn't be rebuilt shows ignorance. If that is the case, then the same goes for San Francisco, New York, the entire state of Florida, etc. We all have our issues. Flooding is New Orleans'. .... More
I couldn't agree more with you statements or sentiment. NOLA must contine to grow and evolve like any other place and not be so myopic in its think - esp. about architecture and design.
everyone who says modern design doesn't belong in new orleans because it doesn't fit with the vernacular that exists needs to take a drive to laurel and arabella streets. it isn't raised but it's a gorgeous expression of how designs can be true and progressive at the same time.
I thought this comment was concise, pragmatic and human as well as visionary-so of course I agree.
Although I am not crazy about the designs themselves (so far) I applaud the idea of them. I do think that there should be a historical nod to the current soundings. Perhaps they could create stylistically similar homes/cluster communities ( long porches/raised houses) but with a modern flair.
I think this is a very intriguing and possibly pivotal time in New Orleans. Where this chaos.... More
The fact that your building is required to be built on on stilts 10' above ground should tell you that you its a bad idea to build there.
i live in north biloxi (mississippi); my neighbors who live on the water were required to have their homes rebuilt even higher than they were before...i dont know why, because they won't help anyway. if another storm like katrina comes through, it will just rip the house right off the stilts (which i saw in many of the homes in my neighborhood after katrina). most of them it just looked like the wind/water "picked up" the house right off the stilts and set it back down on the ground right.... More
I admit I stumbled upon this and am comming from a different angle. I am into Green building, pasive solar, and Sustainable designs. I don't see much of that there. Let's make it right needs to, do it right the first time. These need to be green design with local deisgns and products. They also need to incorporate Sustainable energy implementations that are apropriate for the area. Solar, wind, water collerction and reuse, smart building materials, etc.
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It's not for the average poor family, it's obvious at this point. Why? Because Brad Pitt is in the story.
This is silly. For the cost of a single one of these homes to be built, you could probably build four average homes.
Quality sustainable design is a much better investment.
This is good I guess, by why can't they just be normal? It probably would have been cheaper to design normal houses too. I live lafayette, in south louisiana, and I can't speak for the people of the ninth ward but I would've wanted something more traditional and beautiful...aka New Orleans architecture.
I looked through the architect's sites and of the U.S. locations, 4 are located in NOLA and 5 are in Los Angeles. These houses should be in Los Angeles, and he should have only used.... More
So basically your saying that god forbid the 9th ward gets flooded again, it would be better for people to drown in the flood waters then walk up a few stairs? That makes no sense...
I agree with some of the other comments here: while stylish, these houses seem very out of character for the area. It seems as though sometimes designers design to please themselves rather than the inhabitants and I wonder if they even gave much thought as to who was going to be living there and where they were to be built.
Pitt may look good fly-fishing and cradle-to-cradle thinking makes sense, but these are crazy!!
These houses all look so modern and a little weird. Why can't he just build normal looking houses, instead of Jetsons houses?
As a founding member of Furnishing For Hope, I have been to the Lower 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish to help the residents furnish their homes. While the homes are stylish, they are not practical for the area. Forget the stigma associated with the Lower 9th ward, the homes are out of place with the other homes in the area that are being rebuilt by other organizations. A true waste of resources.
Having family members who are older or just cannot handle stairs makes me wonder how these designs would accomodate for those that are elderly or handicapped? Did they take all potential users into consideration while making these designs?
Why don't they just remove the stilts and be done with it?
Oh yeah. The flooding.
Maybe the floods could be more accomodating of the elderly and handicapped.
the designs are fascinating but I just don't see them in S. Louisiana, let alone the lower 9th.
Seriously, the lower 9th ward in New Orleans is known to look like the less than average community and these designs can change that. Homes that look not only fascinating but are actually energy efficient brings property value to S. Louisiana, something the area desperately needs (I know because I live in New Orleans).
