Architectural soul of New Orleans at risk

is an article in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. From the article:

"After the storm, the first thing people asked was, 'How's your house?'" recalled Tulane University architecture professor John P. Klingman of those nail-biting days almost two years ago, when storm and flood seemed to have destroyed or scarred every structure in New Orleans.

"My house was OK," he said. "But I realized 'How's your house?' was the wrong question. The question was about my city." ...

But Klingman, like most observers, points out that painful architectural losses took place -- and continue to take place -- on a grand scale, mostly in less well-known stretches of the city where tour buses rarely strayed before the failed levees transformed them into such compelling wastelands.

Innumerable homes and whole streets, blocks and neighborhoods of what Klingman calls "everyday architecture" were ruined. The city estimates 105,000 buildings were severely damaged by storm and flood, representing a $14 billion residential loss.

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Speaking of teen aged spaceland, this is a building for Poydras Street, the New Orleans National Jazz Center, designed by Thom Mayne... (see "Two Infusions of Vision to Bolster New Orleans," from the New York Times).