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Life Without Buildings has an interesting post showing the top four winners of this year’s AIA New Orleans design awards. As is no surprise to any one who has lived in New Orleans and been involved in architecture, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple had a good showing with one landscape project and an urban housing schema designed for Brad Pitt’s “Make It Right” housing program. The residential project seems to me to be very much in the vein of the rest of their work. The renderings available on the website are signature EDR – hyper distorted perspective, large swaths of color, gauzey scale figures, and an almost too crisp structure. Their landscape project is more of an interest to me. It encompases the site I used for my architecture thesis and shares some of the same concepts – reintroduction of the city to the river and revitalization of a much neglected part of the city. From the one image I have seen, the similarities appear to only be in design concept, and not execution, but I am more than interested to see how this project develops.