The National AIA Awards office has selected the Reinventing the Crescent: Riverfront Development Plan to receive a 2012 Honor Award for Design in the Regional and Urban Design category.
The plan encompassed 6 linear miles of the Mississippi River East Bank riverfront at the core of the City of New Orleans, from Jackson Avenue to the Holy Cross neighborhood. The planning process was completed with significant public input and included the participation of many key stakeholder organizations in the community such as the Port of New Orleans, the French Quarter, Marigny, Bywater, and Garden District neighborhood Associations, and the Downtown Development District. The Jury noted: ‘This is an innovative and radical approach to readdressing the levee on the Mississippi and reconnecting the citizens of New Orleans back to their riverfront.’
The design and planning process was a collaboration amongst an international collection of design firms including Lead Designer and Landscape Architect Hargreaves Associates, Urban Design studio Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, local lead Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, and the Architectural studio TEN Architectos.
This project was previously awarded an ASLA 2008 Analysis and Planning Honor Award, and an AIA New Orleans 2008 Master Planning and Urban Design Honor Award.