CamelBackShotgunSpongeGarden, New Orleans, Louisiana
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| Designer | Anderson Anderson Architecture, San Francisco, California, USA |
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
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| Building Type | Multi-Family Housing |
| Climate | Hot Temperate |
| Context | Urban |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
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"This high-density urban housing landscape for post-Katrina New Orleans is an environmental sponge absorbing climatic impacts and slowly filtering the captured water and energy back into the natural and urban ecosystems. The building reaches out through a riverbank park to create an alluvial delta comb recapturing passing Mississippi River sediment to rebuild the high ground and its natural waterfront life. The jury noted: the proposal uses great modernist architecture to solve profound problems."
- http://www.aiasf.org/Programs/Awards_Program/Design_Awards/85.htm
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