Volunteers envision their work as “an opportunity for children to participate in the process of improving their own communities and receive art instruction in the process.”
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Treme neighbor of collapsed doubles sees pattern in housing nonprofit’s mismanagement
Vandals broke in repeatedly and a fire broke out last July. A few weeks ago, brick was removed from the structures that collapsed on Wednesday.
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Slow-mo house-moving saga: a status report on a what seemed a dandy idea
Jacking up a hundred houses, placing them on trucks and rolling them across town was never going to happen at the speed of light.
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Billboard house collapses while city debates its demolition
Neighbors say squatters have pulled planks from the collapsing house and built themselves a shack in the rear. City officials are negotiating a hold-harmless agreement to allow demolition of the house.
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You don’t like my concrete front yard? How about I Astroturf it?
Unsightliness is one problem. The other is that a flood-prone city like New Orleans needs to be able to absorb as much rainwater as possible, something concrete is not good at.
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Holy Cross community looks askance at proposed riverfront towers
A developer has proposed two 13-story, 135-foot high apartment buildings, significantly higher than the 75-foot maximum desired by the neighborhood association.
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Elevating houses crowds sidewalks in historic neighborhoods
Elevating your home in a dense historic neighborhood is a tricky proposition because what goes up must also go out.
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Lots of paving, no permit: Board of Zoning Adjustment to review more concrete lawns
Pave first, ask permission later: That seems to be the philosophy in three cases before the city.
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Wrecking ball for Booker T, but auditorium to be spared
“Selective demolition” lies ahead for a school with a storied past. photo: Karen Gadbois Demolition of Booker T. Washington High School, on Earhart Boulevard near the B.W. Cooper public housing development, is now under way, but plans call for preserving the school’s storied auditorium. The auditorium, in ruins since Katrina, will be refurbished. photo: Andy […]
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Concrete lawn gets grass, but illegal driveway remains
One step forward, another step back. Back in September, The Lens wrote about the unpermitted paving at this house on Burdette Street in Carrollton after reader Kurt Buchert submitted a photo. It appears the owner has mitigated the sea of concrete in the front yard by replacing some of it with grass, as shown by another […]