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We launched the website for my incredibly hard-working brother-in-law today to help propel his business forward. Cheers J & A Custom Construction!!

J&A Custom Construction High-quality granite, tile, painting, and custom renovations from a family-owned business you can trust.

Help support my amazing friends and fellow designers / makers! Kay and her husband Mitch are awesome and have a brilliant idea for a collaborative membership-based fab shop in Nola. Vote them to the top!!

Big Idea nominee NOLA Tchoup Block: creating a community for craftsmen New Orleans Entrepreneur Week's Big Idea 2015 nominee, NOLA Tchoup Block, is described as "a place for craftsmen and aspiring craftsmen to work, learn and collaborate through available tools, work spaces, and classes." Founder: Kay Champagne Co-founder: Mitch Champagne Nominated by:...

Happy belated Thanksgiving all! Just wanted to share some recent publicity for the Baton Rouge Mid City Studio. Thank you to Alexis Rebennack and the LSU Daily Reveille for a wonderful write-up about the studio last Monday and to DIG Baton Rouge for sharing our success from White Light Night in your most recent issue (link below). Cheers!

Designing the Future 0 Comments LSU and Southern University architecture students are in the final stages of designing what they hope will become a community caf� and market in mid-city, run by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

All the hard work has paid off! Check out Mid City Speaks, a community engagement event hosted by 4th and 5th year LSU and Southern architecture students in Mid City. The event was a huge success and garnered lots of hopeful and excited feedback from Mid City residents and stakeholders. See full details about the project at http://www.midcitystudio.org/midcityspeaks

Mid City Speaks hopes to empower the citizens of Baton Rouge to share their thoughts, ideas and dreams for the places they live. Every community deserves a voice. Why not yours? Residents and community stakeholders shared their stories, ideas and perspectives about Mid City along with some food and fun at the site of the old Romano's store at 1730 North Blvd. on Sunday, October 6. You can also share online at midcitystudio.org/midcityspeaks

Check out my students' work in this press release from the COllege of Art and Design!! Mid City Speaks will be this Sunday from noon to 4pm at 1730 North Blvd. You can see our work on the studio website at http://www.midcitystudio.org

Mid City Studio Architecture Students Focus on Food & Shelter and Town & Gown Partnerships The LSU School of Architecture Mid City Studio is hosting Mid City Speaks on Sunday, October 6, from noon to 4 p.m., at 1730 North Boulevard. Mid City Speaks is part of the 2013 Mid City Studio project, Food + Shelter, a workforce development project for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Baton R...

I am incredibly proud of the hard work that my 4th and 5th year students in the community-design studio are doing this semester! Check out the entire project at http://www.midcitystudio.org/ and the studio's page at http://www.facebook.com/BRmidcitystudio

Each year, fourth and fifth year students from LSU work with the Mid City Redevelopment Alliance (MCRA) and the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority (EBRRA) to identify a project, client and site. This year, the students are working with Southern University architecture students and our client is the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The students are developing a program for a fresh produce market and café with a focus on workforce development. On Sunday, October 6, the students will host a community engagement event called Mid City Speaks which hopes to empower the citizens of Baton Rouge to share their thoughts, ideas and dreams for the places they live. At four locations (see map in the album), residents are encouraged to share their perspectives on particular issues related to this project. All of the input, along with some food and fun, will be shared with the community at Mid City Speaks at 1730 North Blvd and on the web at midcitystudio.org/midcityspeaks. The designs will be displayed at Lettermans's Blueprint at White Light Night on November 22.

Check out the blog for community design studio I taught last semester. The students and I worked really hard to put together some successful projects

MID CITY STUDIO

Arch 3002 Project 2 - Project brief, site visits, student work and final reivew

36 highschool students learn about what it means to be an architect.