Photo Gallery The Next New Orleans
UN Studio thinks this garden-encrusted Ziggurat could be the new urban icon New Orleans needs.
A cross section of the multi-purpose Ziggurat designed by Dutch firm UN Studio. The zig-zagging structure would hold a mediatheque and city offices -- were it ever built.
This City Park design by West 8 is being considered by New Orleans. It creates a mini-Delta water system that would help clean the salt-water soaked parklands, and prevent flooding. New Orleans' current City Park lost thousands of trees and plants after Katrina.
West 8's City Park is designed to first provide emergency housing, then provide space for volunteers doing plant cultivation. In its final form, shown here, the park would feature a grid-like new water system (lower middle, in blue and green) and a memorial to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
This crayon drawing by a young New Orleans resident inspired Dutch firm MVRVD to created a "safe school" on a hill above sea level.
An imaginary view of MVRVD's school on a hill superimposed on flooded New Orleans.
The conceptual elementary school from designers MVRVD is set on a hill made from recycled storm debris. The colorful overhangs are designed to provide shelter from any storm.
California-based Morphosis, lead by Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne recommends a radical plan for New Orlean's city center to become denser, more socio-economically diverse, and more like a pedestrian-friendly European city.
Huff + Gooden Architects' swooping neighborhood school is unlikely to become a permanent part of the Crescent City. But you can see it in the "Newer Orleans -- a Shared Space" exhibit.
A fortified, stronger New Orleans is what Hargreaves Associates thinks will lure back residents who fled the flood. And the costs of rebuilding would be far less than planned tax cuts and military expenditures, they point out.
