- Apr 23, 2015
- 4 min
PLACEMAKING v. PARKING (PART 2): NEW ORLEANS AND ATLANTA
As an office based in Atlanta, we’ve often daydreamed about what we could build, if only we weren’t so preoccupied with parking requirements. Recently, work in New Orleans gave us the opportunity, to reflect on the nature of parking in Atlanta. The New Orleans Jazz Market is the conversion of an historic 11,000 SF urban market into a purpose-built Jazz performance hall. Originally built in 1849 as a market, the building went through a major renovation at the turn of the last
- Apr 20, 2015
- 2 min
PLACEMAKING v. PARKING (PART 1): PERCEPTIONS AND EXPECTATIONS
There are significant differences in the built environment of our neighborhoods planned before World War II, and those developed after. Before the war, and the Great Depression, neighborhoods were designed to focus on walkability — sidewalks, smaller streets, and on-street parking were the norm. After the war, planners were confronted with the twin challenges of the increasingly prevalent automobile, and new zoning ordinances which eschewed earlier priorities and had a sign
- Apr 10, 2015
- 1 min
JAZZ MARKET – TIME LAPSE
We are proud to present the Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market. An amazingly special thanks to: Irvin Mayfield and the great folks at the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Redmellon Restoration & Development Landis Construction Studio ARB ARCH Kirkegaard Associates Stability Engineering Leppard Johnson & Associates Spiker Baldwin Associates Grenald Waldron Associates All the team members from KWA who worked so hard on this project. #Preservation #MyNojoIs #irvinmayfield #archite
- Apr 2, 2015
- 1 min
IRVIN MAYFIELD’S EXPANDING WORLD
photo by Elsa Hahne
story by Jennifer Odell – offBEAT magazine Past a two-story wall of windows, up a wide set of wooden stairs, and set back from the concert stage at Irvin Mayfield’s newly christened New Orleans Jazz Market sits a room the trumpet player identifies as his office. There’s no desk in this office. No computer, no phone and no trumpet—just two places to sit and a chessboard. This is fitting enough, given the amount of strategizing that went into transforming an
- Dec 24, 2014
- 1 min
Happy Jazzy Holidays from Kronberg Wall
images by brandt photography We have had a wonderful year at Kronberg Wall and we would like to share the joy. The New Orleans Jazz Market, home of New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) is opening in January. We are proud to be part of this project because it embodies the core principles of our firm, an adaptive reuse project in an urban infill site that is empowering people and translating New Orleans culture into design, but we did not do it alone and we would like give a shout