As always, the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are filled with immense excitement and anticipation as people reconnect with family and friends whom they may not often see. At Concordia, we aim to stay connected with each other through a variety of events during the year. Recently, we participated in an office-wide CPR certification classes with the American Heart …
Did you know our very own Steven Bingler is also co-founder and chairperson of Common Edge Collaborative, an online publication with the mission to advocate and report on equitable engagement, planning and design in the built environment? Check out the excerpts below from his article, Climate Lessons From the Floating Villages of Cambodia. There are a lot of parallels drawn …
We’re thrilled to be a part of the transformational renovation of the George V. Rainey Natatorium at Morris F.X. Jeff Park, formerly known as Behrman Park! The complex, located on the West Bank of New Orleans, will become a state-of-the-art year-round aquatics facility for the New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD). “The Community has long awaited the renovation and opening of …
The Heritage Park Master Plan is designed to incorporate as many of the community’s preferences as possible. Included are a wide range of the rides, family fun, performance and relaxing ideas that emerged from the most common ideas captured during community dialogue. In total, 120 Andalusia residents participated in this first round of engagement. This document summarizes everyone’s feedback who …
Concordia is excited to be working with NORDC and the City of New Orleans to renovate the NORDC Pecan Grove Recreation Center in New Orleans East, which has been boarded up since it flooded during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Concordia helped the City of New Orleans and NORDC discover an opportunity to expand the project’s boundaries to include an additional …
A Most Amazing Client By Bobbie Hill Community Engagement is a fundamental component of all of our work at Concordia. The very nature of that component of our work means that we kind of have two clients – the one with which we have a contract and the community that is participating in the engagement for planning and design. The …
People often green up interior spaces with measly potted plants placed here or there. Why use small potted plants when you can liven up a space with a full fledge living wall? Living walls can be made up of variety of plants, ranging in color and texture providing great visual appeal. They transform a typically horizontal application to a vertical …
On the way to our annual retreat in rural Mississippi last month, some of us stopped by the Crosby Arboretum in Picayune to see the stunning Pinecote Pavilion by architect E. Fay Jones. Like being underneath a canopy of trees, the thin wood framing of the pavilion delicately filters light and frames views of the surrounding southern pine forest. After visiting …
Two current exhibitions in New York combine to provide some insights into 21st century design thinking. One is the comprehensive Le Corbusier retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, the other is James Turrell’s magnificent installation at the Guggenheim Museum. Meanwhile in a land far, far away from MoMA and the Guggenheim, near Arizona’s painted desert and the resplendent Grand Canyon, …
