The New Orleans Building Corporation (NOBC) is pleased to announce that the team led by Chan Krieger Sieniewicz / Hargreaves Associates / TEN Arquitectos / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple was unanimously selected by the Board of Directors on December 21, 2006 as the winner of its "Reinventing the Crescent" competition. 

The team brings to New Orleans not only international acclaim and design excellence but remarkable diversity.  St. Martin, Brown & Associates, Kulkarni Engineering, Julie Brown, Carol Bebelle, Moffatt & Nichol, Development Strategies and Robinson et al. complete a team that includes African American, Indian American, Latin American, female, male, local, national, international, ambitious youth on the rise and highly-experienced mentors at the top of their professions.

The team will provide design and development planning services for the redevelopment of the New Orleans Riverfront from Jackson to Poland Avenue.  Over the course of the last twenty years, fundamental changes in the maritime industry have resulted in major restructuring and consolidation of New Orleans’ port operations.

Today, we have for the first time in 150 years the lifetime chance to reconnect the city to its riverfront and embrace it in new and exciting ways. New Orleans, the nation’s most soulful city—so often at the vanguard of American creative culture—stands poised to realize a new 21st century urban landscape that will become a model of design excellence.

This is no small task.  New Orleans is asking these talented professionals to prepare a bold and specific development plan capable of redefining the riverfront and transforming the city’s edge into an internationally prominent waterfront. We are looking for a contemporary symbol of a reinvigorated city. We are looking for individual elements animated by voice, light, view and human footsteps. We are looking for an ensemble, a consonant whole which redefines this waterfront. We want the greatest riverfront in North America. We want to reinvent the Crescent.

Planning began in February and is expected to be complete in June 2007.