Planning and Foresight
The Urban Vision offices are housed in a circa-1913 building that — according to architects with whom owner MJ Sauer met — was possibly built as a Sears and Roebuck kit home. A neighbor told Sauer the…
Author: Melanie Warner Spencer
Room for Two
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Local Investment
Fidelity Bank worked with Trapolin Peer Architects to restore and reimagine the circa-1800s Union Savings & Loan building at 353 Carondelet Street. The lobby features terrazzo floors installed during a 1950s renovation that resulted in the…
A Welcoming Space in Uncertain Times
For the interiors of its Howard Avenue offices, PerkUp Financial Health worked with Nomita Joshi-Gupta, of Nomita Joshi Interior Design. Joshi-Gupta designed the large graphic mural, painted by muralist Liz Kamarul. The look of the space…
Amped Up
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Relationship Building
Gambel Communications celebrates its 12th year in business in new, custom offices in Metairie. Founder Betsie Gambel worked with her brother, architect Tommy Meric, Duplantier and Meric Architects, and contractor Tom Leblanc of Kemper Construction to…
Playful in the Park
The Louisiana Children’s Museum will reopen to the public on Memorial Day weekend in May, after being shut down most of 2020 due to COVID-19. The museum and office spaces were designed by Mithun in Seattle…
Flex for Success
In 2020, Stirling Properties, which manages the Pan-American Life Center, worked with Greenleaf Lawson Architects to renovate The Conference Center on 11 and the Café on 11. Greenleaf Lawson Architects’ modern design features a neutral, yet…
The Dao of Design
We begin as humanitarians who have chosen architecture as our profession. — Julia LeBlanc, Trahan Architects director of communications Buildings designed by the team at New Orleans-based Trahan Architects can be found all over the world, but most…
New Orleans Spirit
The approximately 13,780-square-foot warehouse in the Tulane Gravier neighborhood includes a tasting room, gift shop and production facility. Owners Sal and Eileen Bivalacqua worked with Albert Architecture and Logan Killen Interiors to achieve their vision for…
The New Economic Clubhouse
The new LABI Center for Free Enterprise is housed in an historic building dating from the late 1800s. Working with EskewDumezRipple and Colleen Waguespack Interiors, the space was transformed into a flexible, multi-use business center, designed…
Living the Dream
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On Course
At a Glance Business Name MiNO Marine Location 119 Causeway Blvd., Jefferson Number of years in business 16 Date of opening current facility June 2016 Architecture and Interior Design SCNZ Architects Artwork David Bourg Square footage 4,500 Number of Employees…
Culture Club
The coworking space Club Discovery (2831 St. Claude Ave.) gets its name from one of the nightclubs the building was home to in the late ’80s through the early 2000s. Many of the club’s original design…
Two For One
In less than five years, newly founded Northshore architectural firm Greenleaf Lawson Architects outgrew its original space and found new digs in a historic part of Covington. Founded in 2015 by Justin Greenleaf and Michelle Lawson, the full-service architectural…
Leading Women
HOUSED IN A RESTORED, CIRCA-1905 former cold storage facility, WB Collective is a coworking and event space in the Warehouse District designed for womenowned, -led and -founded…
Prime Positioning
Melanie Warner Spencer is editor of New Orleans Bride and New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles and managing editor of Louisiana Life and Acadiana Profile. Spencer’s ever-expanding library of etiquette books is rivaled…
Renovated Retreat
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Red, Blue or Red, White and Blue?
Melanie Warner Spencer is editor of New Orleans Bride and New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles and managing editor of Louisiana Life and Acadiana Profile. Spencer’s ever-expanding library of etiquette books is rivaled…
Mortgage Leader Finds Its Own Forever Home
Eustis worked with The Global Office of Architecture & Taste (aka GOAT) on the design of its new, 7,000-square-foot space. The open-office concept extends through several departments and a handful of private offices line the…
Unwanted Advances
Melanie Warner Spencer is editor of New Orleans Bride and New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles and managing editor of Louisiana Life and Acadiana Profile. Spencer’s ever-expanding library of etiquette books is rivaled…
Home Brew
Dixie Brewing Company was founded in New Orleans in 1907 and brewed locally on Tulane Avenue until 2005 (except during a period in the 1920s after Prohibition-era raids uncovered “a little rule breaking,” according to dixiebeer.com). After Hurricane Katrina destroyed…
Pants on Fire
Melanie Warner Spencer is editor of New Orleans Bride and New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles and managing editor of Louisiana Life and Acadiana Profile. Spencer’s ever-expanding library of etiquette books is rivaled only by her ever-ready stash of blank thank-you…
Culture Club
In June of 2018, Austin, Texas-based technology company Accruent announced…
Linda Lee Bridal & Boutique abruptly closes
Metairie, Louisiana — On Sept. 20, local brides and their bridesmaids stopping in for fittings and to pick up their dresses at Linda Lee Bridal & Boutique in Metairie learned the store closed. This morning, New Orleans Bride Magazine, sister publication…
Down by the Riverside
A formerly “cursed” space becomes a blessing in disguise for Riverwalk’s corporate offices.
